my ten-second take on the Danish cartoons

[madbaker]

"It is blasphemous to depict the prophet Muhammed."

Wrong.

It is blasphemous for a follower of Islam.
Don't tell me, a non-believer, that I must follow your belief system.

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re: my ten-second take on the Danish cartoons

[nitnorth.livejournal.com]

It might be worth your while -- certainly enlightening! -- to read this article (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007602.php) on the same subject. In there, you'll also find a link to an op-ed in The New Yorker that has backstory on the evolution of the current Islamist movement.

Too, thinking about it, their outrage is not really any different to the outraged squawking we've been getting for years now from our own religious right. As far as I can tell, the major difference remains now what it was the first time I remarked on it: their religious nuts are willing to die for their beliefs. Ours are willing to run to France and hide.