Apples and oranges

Little Green Footballs notes a story over at Yahoo news that is the worst comparison I have heard yet.

ROME (Reuters) - The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like a mirror image of the Muslim reaction to the Prophet Mohammad caricatures printed in the European press.

How does someone dying for being a Christian mirror people threatening murder over cartoons? Oh, I see. Both circumstances involve death at the hands of islamic wackos.

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UPDATE: Little Green Footballs has a post about how Reuters has re-written this story. Just to be clear, here are the original two paragraphs:

ROME (Reuters) - The strong Western response to a threatened death sentence for an Afghan convert to Christianity looks something like a mirror image of the Muslim reaction to the Prophet Mohammad caricatures printed in the European press.

There have been no riots or sackings of Afghan embassies, unlike the violence that marked the uproar in Muslim countries after the Danish cartoons were published, but the shock and mutual incomprehension expressed in both cases are similar.

And here is the current rewritten version:

Two months ago, political and religious leaders in the Muslim world were rounding on Western European media and governments for printing and defending caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that they considered blasphemous.

The cases are clearly different. Western leaders from President George W. Bush down have spoken up to save the life of a man whose religious freedom is a universal human right which his judges say is secondary to Islamic law.

Several blogs noted the original nonsensical story, and I think this is just another example of the mainstream press responding to the 'blogosphere'.