Citing the recent removal of a provocative museum exhibit from Vienna's Roman Catholic Cathedral Museum and the example of the Dutch court ruling in Mr Geert Wilders' favour of his right to voice anti-Islam views, Mr Tim bluntly presented it as 'Western hypocrisy', contributing to the misunderstanding of this imbroglio.

The writer failed to recognise that the aforementioned incidents occurred in two different countries, Austria and the Netherlands, and that Austria might not share the same views on freedom of expression as the Netherlands. He also might have forgotten that after Fitna was released, the European Union was quick to condemn it. Perhaps other individuals who are misinformed should also know that when Denmark first printed the offensive caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, not a single national daily in North America reprinted it. Anchors on America's CNN and Britain's BBC directly specified that their respective news corporations would not broadcast the caricatures out of respect to Islam.

It is dangerous when individuals do not have the full knowledge and comprehension of the Western world that it stretches across a spectrum from as archconservative as the American Deep South to as liberal as Western Europe. Mr Tim's caustic rebuttal of the West and its ethos was uncalled for and one-sided when he failed to understand how diverse, different and split the Western world is, just like Asia.

Pavin Limanont