Christopher Hitchens has written an article in Slate on the semi-pro members of the “Muslim street” who keep Karachi’s flag shops in business with their regular protests against any and all perceived insults to Islam from the West. Anger over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood is only the latest casus jihadi. Hitchens once again rightly chastises Western media producers for setting up people like “Rage Boy” as the true representatives of the Muslim world:
But our media regularly make the assumption that the book burners and fanatics really do represent the majority, and that assumption has by no means been tested. (If it is ever tested, and it turns out to be true, then can we hear a bit less about how one of the world’s largest religions mustn’t be confused with its lunatic fringe?)
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