"Go figure"?! Much simpler explanation is that the official image is false. Middle East Christians live there and they know better what is going on around them than the average FOX viewer.
Skepticism? Fair enough...Here is a pile of corpses, victims of the 1988 gas attack on Halabja, Iraq. I doubt the folks in Halabja are very skeptical about any claims of WMD being present in Saddam's Iraq...
The FOX comment definately has a wiff of troll's bait to it... I don't watch FOX, I'm too busy typing up replies on FreeRepublic while listening to the Savage Nation on my headphones. Alternative media, that's what it's all about...
But okay, I'll nibble on the bait a bit. If FOX viewers would say "Go figure", then CNN/CBS/ABC/NBC/MSNBC viewers would say "Its those murderous Israelis. If only they would quit killing those innocent Palestinians who only seek a homeland, then Syria would be a kinder, friendler nation." NPR listeners would save the speeches and simply say "F*** Bush."