All Christendom under suspicion

The attempt by a Christian community to use September 11 to further its own interests could place the entire West under suspicion, notes the leftist daily die tageszeitung: "The Vatican, the US government and Nato are doing all they can to prevent the Islamic world from getting the impression that all of Christendom and the West is behind activities like this. To this extent they are in the same boat as many Muslims after September 11, when they were made collectively responsible for the attacks in some places, and since then have had to demonstrate time and again that they aren't terrorists. Granted, the scale is not the same. There are probably far fewer Koran burners in the West than there are bin Laden fans in the Islamic world, and the attacks of September 11 were of an entirely different magnitude than a Koran-burning ceremony. But in both cases a majority runs the risk of being pilloried for the deeds of a minority."

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