re: #109 Petero1818

Not to defend this particular journalist as I have no knowledge of his past writing, but I do not believe the highlighted caption on its own to be an example of bigotry. Firstly Charles rightly points out that the Muslim world enucumpasses far more than the middle east, but, the “morass of war and terror of the Muslim world” encumpasses more than just the middle east as well, North Africa, Asia, Subcontinent. There is no question that the Muslim world, whether taken as the Ummah or in a geopolitical reference to countries with majority Islamic populations face a disproportionate amount of war and terrorism than are faced in the non-muslim world at this particular time in history.
I do not suggest a reason for this (there are many), and I have not read the article in question to know if this particular journalist does (though I suspect if he did it would have been included here) but from most objective criteria the Muslim world faces serious issues of instability either intenally or internationally. If one took Indonesia out of the equation (and lets not forget - Indonesia does face islamic terrorist cells still) the situation looks even worse.
Again, I have no idea whether this guy is a bigot or not. I do not however find the statement above to be offensive. North Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, all part of the Muslim World, all have a problem with the Morass of war and terror. Could he have been more specific and named the places one by one? I suppose, but to me that is not the issue.

Get back to me after you have.