And of course you as a smug comfortable middle-aged white American male are amply qualified to decide what is or isn't offensive to ragheads.
Even limited perusal of Web boards will tell you there are hordes of Americans itching to take offense at even the mildest criticisms of any or all things American.
We tend to get riled up even over the really stoopid stuff like our starry stripey rag, or pictures of the Pope being torn up.
Extremists on both sides are driving the bus. Not just that, but they've persuaded the rest of us to pay to have the bus converted into a tank, and we're not allowed to look outside to see for ourselves what's really going on.