"The world of inconsistencies between Ukraine, the Middle East and beyond"

“The public’s ideal of freedom fighter and terrorist is intensely racial, which enables the seeing of lay Ukrainians taking arms and throwing molotov cocktails as heroes and Muslims engaged in the very same acts, in pursuit of the same self-determination, as extremists.” - Khaled Beydoun, Washington Post.

Worth a read particularly if you’re as insular as the North Americans and the Europeans ..