I disagree there as well. That was a response to an earlier outrage at drawn figures of Mohammed, which were so ridiculous and out of proportion. Death threats and demands for violence over doodles? That's not just moronic, that's stone age. That's the same nonsense that led the Imam Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) to declare that mathematics was the work of the devil and single-handedly ended the intellectual renaissance in the middle-east and ruined Muslim civilisation forever.
So we're getting threats and riots and actual people dying over drawings, and I don't care what they were of, that is always the wrong response. Such a response demands protest, and the best protest against idiocy and violence is ridicule. Because it's ridiculous! I said it way back in my first post, we have a duty to speak out against that kind of crap, and the very freedom of speech being threatened is the most effective and poetically apt way to do that. Violence versus prolific doodling, there's just no moral comparison.
Now I know that so many Muslims were not participating in those riots and threats, and were offended by the wave of drawings. Well so what? They can be offended. It doesn't hurt them, and the source of their offence is a protest in support of the very freedom of speech we want to safe guard for them as well. I guarantee you they have more freedoms in the west than the middle-east, perhaps one of the reasons they came here in the first place. We want to protect that for their sake as well, and being caught in what is frankly a harmless crossfire isn't even a price to be paid.
The same thing when a college student in America was being sent death threats and facing the possibility of expulsion for not eating a consecrated Jesus cracker right away. Many nails were driven through consecrated Eucharists after that. Crumbled crakcers versus threats of violence and a ruined future. It's just not comparable. It's hardly our fault that Catholics have what is quite possibly the maddest belief in religion today (and with Mormonism and Scientology around, that's saying something).
A little bit of god damned perspective is all we ask.
My favourite was a drawing of a drawing of Mohammed. Exploring the ridiculous nooks and crannies of what is offensive or forbidden by fundamentalist religions is an entertaining an necessary exercise. Let's raise some bloody awareness, and self-awareness.
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