Re: your May 28 article, “Outraged Muslims protest”:
The bias shown by this lead headline was offensive to me.
The content of the headline, taken by itself, was not offensive. I presume that many Muslims were, in fact, outraged over a mishandling of their holy book. Whether the extent of that “outrage” is worth a lead headline in a major newspaper is at least questionable, but that is not the source of the offense.
The Torah and Christian Bible are both held in high honor by Jews and Christians, but I have never seen lead headlines reporting similar desecrations of their holy books in Muslim lands, no matter how “outraged” Jews or Christians might have been.
An even worse bias is that there have not been corresponding or larger lead headlines when actual Christian or Jewish (or Hindu or Buddhist) persons have been arrested, or worse, in Muslim lands for pursuing their own forms of worship.
How about a little — no, a lot — more balance in future headlines?
— Don Power, Thousand Oaks
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