I hate this type of 'but what if the tables were reversed?' argument, but given my prior claims that the US and other 'Western' nations are explicitly fine with anti-muslim discrimination and think less of Muslim lives, it's worth thinking what CNN would be saying if the above convoy was carting off Canadian civilians, British civilians, or Israeli civilians.
I really think we're at the culmination of 50+ years of Western powers engaging in terrorism and murder in predominantly Muslim countries, and they're capping it off with a significant regional extermination.
That anyone can watch the above scenes and not have a visceral reaction is unimaginable to me.
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