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Not just that, but people obviously stand a greater chance of making a difference in a) the country they actually live in, particularly when it's b) a democracy. Affecting policy changes in a non-democratic state halfway around the world is a lot harder, and you can probably make a good case, strictly from a pragmatic point of view, that it's a better use of time.
Which isn't to say that a lot of people marching yesterday don't have incompatible views on radical Islam and domestic issues. I'm sure plenty of them do. But there's not an inherent contradiction, and if we always responded to every protest with "X is worse, go protest that," then a lot of still important issues would never be addressed.
So I tend to think that's only a good response when the gulf is huge (IE: protesting one rather than the other shows patently disordered priorities) and there's a similar chance of affecting change for both.
Which isn't to say that a lot of people marching yesterday don't have incompatible views on radical Islam and domestic issues. I'm sure plenty of them do. But there's not an inherent contradiction, and if we always responded to every protest with "X is worse, go protest that," then a lot of still important issues would never be addressed.
So I tend to think that's only a good response when the gulf is huge (IE: protesting one rather than the other shows patently disordered priorities) and there's a similar chance of affecting change for both.
In my rants on fundamentalist Islam I often make the same counterpoints you did when rebuttals include, "Well look what Christians did in whatever place a thousand years ago" or "Well, look what the Jewish scriptures say about smiting this one and that one." I'll usually give reasons why those things are not comparable to current situations and state that they are issues irrelevant to assessments of modern political Islam & terrorism.
But in the post above mine, TheUsualSuspect had posted a link to "Pictures From Women’s Marches on Every Continent." So I was responding not just to an isolated American protest, but to a global one.
You yourself said, "people obviously stand a greater chance of making a difference in a) the country they actually live in, " But we're looking at global protests in response to the perceived misogyny of one individual.
Now - focusing on the concept of global protests - people are basically protesting the words of one man and the fact that he got elected despite them. On a global level, I don't know of any worldwide protests ever occurring that condemned or decried massacres of innocent people, the slaughter of women and children or the ideology that sanctions & encourages such attacks - not even after 9/11.
I guess my point is, it's staggering that so many people all over the world (a world currently subject to ongoing massacres of innocent people) can come together as we saw on Saturday to protest an individual due to repugnant words caught on a microphone in a stupid moment when they were showing off and didn't know they were being recorded, but no one can come together on such a global level to protest or even mention an ideology that is literally killing women, gang raping little girls, selling them into slavery, forcing them into marriages with insane sadistic men who regard females as livestock and are taught that having sex with children is an example set by a holy man, and mass murdering innocent people all over the world.
Over and over - we see such a level of outrage at things that are relatively inconsequential, while there is hushed silence and even tacit support for an ideology that is committing an ongoing holocaust on a global scale.
No. Oh my gosh just from being a movie buff you should know better regarding the magazine "rags". Know what the difference is between People, Entertainment Weekly, and the National Enquirer? Not a whole damn lot. 
Movie Max the internet has no rules, and theres a webpage out there for every desire. Take a source that you know is reputable even though they might not always agree with your feelings, and youll gain more ground. Your salty enough, but "Fake News" is becoming more and more a thing now. Hm, I wonder if EW and Heavy included the protestors in that figure? 
Do Time, or Newsweek give that same figure?
