How both the Left and the Right are missing the most important aspect of the Qur’an-flushing controversy When in April EBay offered a consecrated host for sale, imagine if Catholics had rioted and seventeen people were killed. The media would have been full of stories about the dark side of the “Christian Right.” Imagine if, when Muslims desecrated the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus in 2000, destroying it with hammers, rampaging Jewish mobs had killed dozens of Palestinians. The establishment media response would again have inundated us with stories about the heroic Palestinians and their Israeli oppressors. Neither of those...
