If Islamic militants attacked and killed 200 European, Israeli or US children, then of course the media would tell us that humanity had entered a new dark age or some such.
Our media just report a few figures...it isn't even that the children had been killed, they are merely counted, the cause of their death seemingly of little interest.
Hint: that might have something to do with WHO STARTED THE RIOTS. They were started when Mr. Sadr decided to start his "death to America" riots in Falluja, with thousands of people shooting at the Americans, after four aid workers were viciously murdered.
Suppose that a crowd of 20,000 Frenchmen (for example) rioted in Morocco, burning four Morrocans for no reason than that they were Moroccans, and continued to kill any Moroccan in sight while shouting "death to the Arabs!". Then Moroccan police moved in and in the resulting fight 1000 frenchmen, children included, were killed. Would THAT be viewed as "a new dark age" by the media? A case of Morrocan barbarity? Somehow, I doubt it. I think the feeling would be that the Frenchmen got what they deserved.
The REAL difference, of course, is that nobody in their wildest dreams imagines the French acting in such a way in the first place, while violent mobs of Muslims attacking every "infidel" in sight at the instigation of the "holy man" du jour is an everyday occurence.
That same media appears compassionate and human enough when it's emoting over the suffering and horror of people in Madrid, but then nobody notices when there's this strange, silent indifference to the horrific fate of Iraqis
That might have something to do with the fact the Spaniards were not in the process of turning Madrid into the headquarters of the "resistance troops" whose purpose is to "liberate Spain from the evil Muslims" by killing any Muslim they can lay their hands on at the time of the Madrid bombing. I also don't recall the people of Madrid dancing in the streets as four Muslims were mutilated, killed, burned, and hung from bridges a week before the Madrid bombing. Do you?
If they were doing either (let alone both), I doubt there would have been much outrage at an Islamic attack on them at the time, even if it killed innocents. For the same reason, there isn't much outrage at Fallujah. The world doesn't have much sympathy for people whose idea of entertainment is hanging charred bodies from bridges, for some reason.
