I am really trying to understand something here. I was watching the news last night and the Muslim community is now in an uproar over a cartoon depicting the prophed Mohammed with a bomb for a turbin. I can understand the sentiment of being angered when someone attacks your religion, but how many other religious groups start attacking and burning embassies when something like this happens? Secondly, if the cartoon was completely untrue it would be one thing, but much like it would have been fair to make a cartoon about my own Catholic religion during the crusades, its hardly unfair to make a similar inference about the Islamic relgion today. They are using their religion to justify killing others on a massive scale, much like my own religion did, it was wrong then, and its still wrong now. The amazing irony of this whole thing is that the incidents that followed the cartoon (the attacks and embassy burning) proved that the cartoon had validity. I know there are good muslims out there, I hardly think they're all evil or anything like that, but these incidents really make it hard to turn the tide of public opinion. In our own country's experiences after 9-11, we didn't go around killing every Muslim and burning every Mosk that we could find, granted we at times treated them harsher than we should have due to our own suspicions, but to an extent that was understandable. We didn't really hate all muslims, we just didn't know what their possible motives were after 9-11. Any thoughts?

I dont think i could have expresseed my sentiments better. I have read many cartoons mocking my religion (also Catholic), especially a few years ago with the scandals. Yes they made me mad, even though they did contain a kernal of truth. However, your point still stands. I didnt go start burning newspapers or anything. I just read them, hoped the thing would blow over, and continued on with my life. Also, most of the nations in the world support a right to free press. While the cartoons may have been in bad taste, that is irrelevent. In a free world, you are going to be offended, thats just part of the deal. This mess is making me wonder if we are ever going to assimilate a good portion of the Muslim community into the "First World." If a little satire causes this, I cant imagine what would happen if they had a scanal akin to the Catholic Church's one from the past few years.

Where did you see this FIB, I haven't seen t on the news. Which I figured it would be everywhere, being as the newspapers, tv news think they should be able to print anything they want, nomatter who it affects, or how much validity it has. I guess they only belive in that in the US, and don't care about any onther country...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... topstories


one of many stories ive read on it. I dont watch the news much, normally just scan cnn.com every day.

That was from today, have you heard anything about this in the last 5 months? This originally started back in September...

oh, i thought it was just this past couple weeks. I just sent you the first link I could find. I first heard about it i think early last week.

There are people with sense all over the world.

True, but like I said, when's the last time you saw another religion start rioting over a political cartoon or comment?

I still have yet to see the cartoon...anyone have a link?

Whoa, Muhammad is creepy looking...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 421924.stm

But when you have stories like that, and this one (which is admittedly fairly old) it seems like Jihad Momeni and Fouad Siniora might just be in the minority in their religion...

But this is possibly the saddest of them all

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... wstop.html

I know they are in the minority... but at least they are there.

Yeah, us siding with either side was dumb politically, but honestly, the nation was founded on FREEDOM of speech, regardless of whether its in good taste or not.

That is sad. I wonder when it will become illegal to print anything negative about muslims in America? When it will be illegal to so much as report news about a terrorist attack if muslim terrorists are suspected. What group will be protected next? Will it be illegal to print an article in a church newsletter saying that homosexuality is a sin - it is already illegal in Canada. Folks, this is a slippery slope. Not too far off is a majority party including themselves in such a law. I would not put it past either the Democrats or the Republicans to make it a crime to say anything negative about their own party.