Disgusted with the Globe: You raise an interesting point. No cultural or religious group holds a monopoly on either hatred or virtue. I've posted comments over the past couple days, some of which have been deleted (although without any indication from the moderator(s) that they're uncivil), noting that there are two competing views of human rights, the first being the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the second the being the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam. The CDHRI, to which I believe over 40 Muslim-majority countries are signatories, is essentially an oppositional response to the UDHR. It sets out the 'legal' basis for Muslim exceptionalism and is seen as a mainstream approach in much of the Islamic world and presumably among many Muslims who are living in the West. Apparently, we're not supposed to point out such inconsistencies in insular little Canada. The divide between the West and Islam is real and it hasn't been entirely created by or in the West.