Disclaimer, most people would call me an Atheist but I'm not even that organized. I'm not flaming you or any particular country or religion, I think they are all BS to some extent but that is a different conversation.
Agreed, many would make that same incorrect assumption especially since there are groups of people, governments, and media organizations that exploit these violent images and selectively add commentary for their own political, ideological, and monetary gain. Just like most outrages, this is a manufactured outrage (see the link below)
Because this is what religions do, most of the big ones share the same book. Have you ever read Leviticus, Exodus, Genesis, or some of the other peaceful parts of the bible that talk about "an eye for an eye" or executing kids for talking-back or dragging your non-virgin bride over to you father-in-laws house so the entire village can stone her to death. And whatever you do, don't do anything on the Sabbath.
Salman Rushdie was on MSNBC earlier this week and had some great points on the subject, here is a link
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