You have a point, but don't forget "Piss Christ" and the uproar it caused.
Fair enough, there are religious lunatics enough in all the major religions.
Also, the Koran apparently, forbids pictorial depictions of gods or prophets...
I recently read that that isn't in the Koran, but was a later interpretation. But I can't cite the source and so won't argue the point; regardless, enough Muslims believe the Koran forbids depections of the Prophet to make the question moot.
They actively desecrated the Islamic religion...
Did they? Forgive my jerking Western knee, but so what? You have to be pretty messed up to think killing is the right response to an insult - which attitude of mine is, of course, a great example of just how viscerally distracting this issue is.
Having been raised an atheist, I have to admit I need to strain my imagination a little in order to empathize - let alone sympathize - with "the" Islamic point of view. But then, true believers of any kind give me the shivers.
Re: Cartoons
Fair enough, there are religious lunatics enough in all the major religions.
Also, the Koran apparently, forbids pictorial depictions of gods or prophets...
I recently read that that isn't in the Koran, but was a later interpretation. But I can't cite the source and so won't argue the point; regardless, enough Muslims believe the Koran forbids depections of the Prophet to make the question moot.
They actively desecrated the Islamic religion...
Did they? Forgive my jerking Western knee, but so what? You have to be pretty messed up to think killing is the right response to an insult - which attitude of mine is, of course, a great example of just how viscerally distracting this issue is.
Having been raised an atheist, I have to admit I need to strain my imagination a little in order to empathize - let alone sympathize - with "the" Islamic point of view. But then, true believers of any kind give me the shivers.
(And that really is a bizarre outfit!)