Terrorists cant stop Armies, Money and Oil.

[GenericKen]

The proper response to the complaint is as follows:

"What, you can't take a joke?  Get over yourselves." 

Given some of the abusive political cartoons that I have seen in my day of Jimmy Carter, Ronnie Ray Gun, WJ Clinton, Dick "Ski Slope Nose" Nixon and GW Bush, I want to know how some Muslim Arab schmoe gets an entitlement not to be  poked fun of or caricatured.  He doesn't, unless cowards back away from the exercise of free speech.   

Gut check, Denmark.  How will you handle this nonsense?

Whichever twit first coined the phrase "hate speech" needs to go to that special level of Hell, the one where they send child molesters and people who talk to loudly in the theatre. (Thanks, Shepard Book.)

Note the sense of entitlement in the statements whinging about this mockery.  Whose script do you think they are reading from?  Where was it first written?  This is not a very original wheeze.

I am reminded of the tight arsed reaction to (milder) humor in the movie and the book "The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco?  I am also reminded of the old penalties for saying things nasty about a king, which was ruled as treason: drawn and quartered, et cetera.

How quaintly medeival. :P

Occhi
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It's worth noting, Occhi, that *any* depection of Muhammed is strictly taboo. It's not like cartoons featuring Jesus; there are tenets of faith based upon it.


Trying to think of an apt analogy to Christianity, this is the best I've come up with: it'd be like the media harassing a private citizen into renouncing his faith. Or perhaps akin to Ted Turner buying the shroud of turin for his own personal collection.

*shrug*. It's a tricky analogy.