Perpetuating incorrect claims about Muslims
Joel Pett’s “Non-prophet cartooning” (Current, Feb. 12) continues to make the same incorrect assertion that the Danish cartoons caused “riots throughout the Muslim world.”
In fact, the demonstrations (not always riots) took place in a handful of locations that were already patently anti-Western.
I have seen nothing about any demonstrations in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Bangladesh or numerous other predominantly Muslim nations. Most of the Muslim world has not reacted in any way other than personal indignation.
This false stereotyping of Muslim behavior contributes to the growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the country, and The Times should be more responsible in what it publishes.
WALTER COMINS-RICHMOND
La Crescenta
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