Mohammed, jihad, islam, that stupid cartoon...and other keywords

Submitted by poit on February 7, 2006 - 16:17.

Excuse the rant but...
I would like to start out by saying that I mean ABSOLUTELY no disrespect here...I have a real question. WTF is it with "you extremist islamic types" and those stupid cartoons? I realize YOU have some serious problems with graphic representations of prophets, gods, etc...but what has that got to do with me or the danish government or even the newspaper (which is TOTALLY unaffiliated with the danish government) that printed the cartoon in the first place? Would you burn a flag of America, France or Denmark? Isn't that kind of similar. Of course people in the middle east have been doing these sorts of potentially offensive actions for years and you don't see world-wide demonstrations calling for apologies by governments (which, once again are TOTALLY UNAFFILIATED with the newspapers). You want an apology? Apologize to yourselves...you have just as much to do with it as the danish government (more actually, the danish government is SUPPOSED (by law) to allow freedom of the press, YOU however are free to boycott. TECHNICALLY you guys have more power over the newspaper than the danish government...SHAME ON YOU!

...but seriously what's so offensive about someone that doesn't share your beliefs saying something that you don't agree with? And BTW, does it actually say in the cartoon "The PROPHET Mohammed"? There are a LOT of you guys named Mohammed...so many it's almost a part of a stereotype. How do you know the cartoon isn't about just any old extremist named mohammed? What about this cartoon?

Is THIS cartoon offensive? I didn't say it was the prophet mohammed...I really mean it's just any old person named mohammed.

Is THIS mohammed offensive? He sure LOOKS offensive, bad hair day and all. Maybe I'm using his image as that of the prophet Mohammed...maybe not. Does the fact that you KNOW the actual person isn't the prophet Mohammed important...or is it MY intent? If you know it's someone else but I say it's about the prophet, do you not get as offended? Why do you care what I think anyway? Also...you've got a lot of the same religious texts as the christians...I recall it says somewhere in there that GOD is the one that's supposed to be judging people...Are you saying YOU have the authority to make judgments about things that are between someone else and your god???

I dunno...just seems to me like you guys never actually THOUGHT about WTF you were doing here. Hopefully this didn't offend your religion...although I don't mind offending any actual idiotic people, after all, you're idiots (the idiotic people, I mean...don't take offense or that means you're admitting you're an idiot). Please, go back to burning the american (and various other flags) and speaking ill of other people's religions, calling them infidels and such...at least WE feel it's your right to be able to say what you want. Too bad YOU can't actually say anything you want, just the stuff that goes along with your mainstream religion and government. Please...have fun saying anything your government and/or religious establishment allows...you oppressed automaton (again, assuming this is the type of person that you actually are...please, ONLY take offense if you ARE an oppressed automaton)