What's the big fuss???

People are dying over this and burning buildings down, what's wrong with making a joke?

It's not like you don't see American flags being burned and pics of Bush being lit on fire by them, you don't see Americans going nuts over it that much.

Talk about an overreaction....... discuss.......

Agreed but then many feel the reaction to 11th September has been completely OTT as well.

Northview, I think the difference between making some poor taste cartoons and flying aircraft into a building killing thousands is quite large...

I think that one of the tenants of Islam (and I could be wrong here, but I thought I read something about this) is that one does not make fun of the prophet. I believe it is considered a sacriligous act.

-Jus

Isn't burning crosses and pictures of Jesus considered blasphemous as well?

From the point of view of the West, the difference between making some poor taste cartoons and flying aircraft into a building killing thousands is quite large; but from the point of view of devoutly religious Muslims, the former is a terrible attack on a whole system of belief... as you could say the events of 11th September were.

My point about the reaction to 9th September was relating to a comparison of the numbers of lives lost by both the initial action and the reaction to it.

Of course, it goes without saying that those who've published the cartoons are merely exercising their right to freedom of speech... but you could exercise your right to freedom of movement by jumping into a lion's den and no one would have much sympathy for you if you were eaten alive.

With feeedom comes responsibility, and I think those who published pictures of Mohammed as a suicide bomber were acting within their rights, but were being irresponsible. For their part, I wish that all the fundamentalists in the world (Mulsim, Jewish, Christian, the whole rotten lot of them) would go and jump in the f-ing sea and leave the world to the rest of us who are better able to understand and respect the opinions of others.