Their Murderous Rage

I watched a PBS Independent Lens program last night which purportedly was made by an East Indian-American Hindu woman and another woman who was of Pakistani origin and Muslim descent. The show dealt with the bloody, long-standing conflict in the Indian-administered section of Kashmir. Of course, despite the balance of using a filmmaker from each religion, like so much else produced for public broadcasting in the United States, the production was skewed to a perspective sympathetic to the Muslims' plight. American public broadcasting consistently engages in moral inversion turning Muslim terrorists into victims and victims of jihad into oppressors. While regions of India tend to be more or less tolerant of various religions, in Pakistan and other areas where Muslims are in control, other faith groups are systematically dominated or destroyed. From Saudi Arabia, where there are no churches and no construction of religious institutions other than those of Islam is permitted, to Pakistan where public expressions of faith other than Islam are not countenanced and people can be jailed or killed for apostasy, defaming Mohammad or Islam, converting from Islam, or proselytizing for another religion, to Sudan where Christians and animists were subjected to a campaign of genocide, to Turkey, a supposedly moderate state of Muslims but not an Islamic state where three workers at a Christian publishing house were butchered, it seems Muslims do not play well with others. But on PBS or NPR, you will rarely if ever hear of outrages perpetrated by Muslims, but you will see plenty of reports and programs chronicling outrages against Muslims.