"Those contributors who fell over themselves to express their outrage over BS, are conspicuous by their absence here. Is that because of the nationality of the perpetrators?"
Have you thought that this might be down to the fact that the op is someone who usually manages to dominate threads with vacuous postings - often two at a time (at least), doesn't listen to what others have to say, fills the thread with his non-comments and uses threads as an ego-tripping display of his ignorance - result = circular discussion ending in op disappearing up his own jaxi.
Personally, our kitchen table makes a more satisfying debating partner.
As has been pointed out by me and others in the past, religion (of any sort) and politics is a toxic mix that should be avoided at all costs, as proved by this incident and a thousand others involving the church(es) and state pouring their bilious hatred of other religions and political creeds into the ears of the faithful.
Jim Carroll