Re: where to start
The way I was reading it was that BOTH sides were nutjobs - that this was all based on some religious difference that went back hundreds, if not thousands, of years, like the Sunni/Shia conflict in Iraq. And if other comments on here are correct, both sides are monsters, too. And radical Muslims (which these people are obviously a parallel to) really DO do things like that - a few years back, there were some guys from the Peace Corps who visited our high school to see if anyone was interested in joining after graduation. One of them had helped out in the Middle East once, and he told us some horror stories, let me tell you. Also, read 'Persepolis'. Anyway, this story is told from the viewpoint of the oppressed - naturally, the focus would be more on them than on the oppressors.