There are sanctimonious jerks on both sides.
Remember when I said that the Europeans were sanctimonious jerks for running the Muhummad cartoons repeatedly? Well there are jerks on both sides. I can’t imagine how any tradition that puts people to death for religous choices can expect to be taken seriously in the modern world.
Link: CNN.com – Clerics to West, Karzai: Back off Christian convert case – Mar 25, 2006.