Religion - The Terrorists' Cloak

What an interesting contrast.

SBS airing visions of prisoner abuse in Iraq are met with Western societies' calls for harsh judgement on the perpetrators of abuse and the condemnation of the US administrators.

Compared this to the indignation of Islamic extremists views on the airing of anti-terrorist cartoons. The terrorist sympathisers' calls for harsh judgement are reserved for the authors who expose the attitudes of people who are willing to murder for their cause.

This leaves a rhetorical question. Should serious issues be spotlighted and resolved, or is it better that we allow terrorists to cloak their aims under the cover of religious sensitivities?