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[fiveeagles]

[Mills]

[SPINOZA]

More from the Muslim nutters!

Right Wing Muslims (is there any other kind?) are certainly doing a great job THEMSELVES of showing the world what total nutcases they so obviously are. Digging their own graves. If there are any attacks on people because of this, people in the West are going to be seriously pissed off with Muslims and subsequent wars against Muslim nations may not be greeted with as much condemnation.

[fiveeagles]

Iran has increased the rhetoric over the cartoons.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184583,00.html

Will the other Muslim countries bite?

[igotthisguitar]

Several postmodern satirists have highlighted the point that -- since no one really knows what Mohammed looked like -- any image could be said to depict him. To that end, they have captioned photos of their thumbs or rudimentary stick figures as "Mohammed."

[coolsage]

They were CARTOONS! In this post 9-11 era, satire is perhaps more important than it ever was. I keep hearing that the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving people. If that's the case, then LIGHTEN UP. God knows that Jesus has been satirized a time or two. The leading edge of Islam extremism (Al Kaeda, Taliban) would have the faithful go forward into the golden age of the seventh century. Frankly speaking, any organized religion is potentially repressive (with the possible exception of Buddhism), but Islam, without moderates speaking out, is damned dangerous.

[mj roach]

Seems the most violent protests are in "countries" with the most repressive regimes.

Might have more to do with people feeling oppressed and without hope of making a better life while their rulers:

... go on mega $$ junkets to Harrads, sojourn on the Riviera with retinues of 100, fatten their Swiss # accounts, and pass the future to their progeny.

Haven't seen foreign legations burning in (Muslim) countries where people have a stake in the process and a chance to improve their lot.

The causes of the riots are more similar to those in Watts or Paris rather
than any religious basis. Squeeze people long enough and hard enough....
someting will errupt.

The only possible good to come of the situation would be for the rioters to feel empowered enough to turn their anger on their oppressors.

[Rteacher]

Hey a billion people, many quite volatile and dirt poor, don't want to see or hear about their prophet or whatever they hold sacred being satirized so I think it would be stupid to go on provoking them with more of the same. Both sides lose. If the media can't regulate itself to avoid what it now knows is considered by many to be blasphemous in this instance there should be creation of and enforcement of blasphemy laws ...

[Mills]

[bigverne]

[Mills]

This was in "Stars and Stripes" today;

[RACETRAITOR]

This was just published in a Saskatchewan university newspaper, causing heads to roll (figuratively only).

[seoulsucker]