are extremists too extreme over the muhammed cartoon, satire?
95067
The extremist people supporting the extremist reaction by the radical islamics sure don't mind when the islamic papers put out hate filled cartoons against Jews, Christians, the image of Jesus, etc... The extremist islamics are reminding me of the kid in school who loves to make fun of someone else, insult them and call them names. And the minute it is returned, they start bawling like a baby as if they had NEVER done it themselves\n\nHello pot... this is kettle calling... something about the color black\n\nSeriously though... freedom of speech allows for the offensive. Those offended have the right to speak out about it, but not this extremist and violent type of reaction like we have been seeing.
708934
Yes, because they can potentially be terrorists.  Is not that they dont embrace western culture but actively seek to destroy it.  Take for instance France and England, where they are not allowed to display religious symbols in fear of offending the Muslims.
1097494
Stereotyping again!  \n\nYou are refering to the extremes of the extremists.  Don't treat all Christains like the nut jobs on the far right & I won't treat all Athiests like the nut jobs on the far left!\n\nThe nut jobs on the far left are also trying to impose restrictions on individual liberties.  Just different liberties.  Socialistic philosophy poses a real threat to our right to private property (money I worked hard for IS property!)  Many seem to want to outlaw any public mention of anything Christian.  And what about the constitutional right to bear arms.  The extremeist want ALL guns abolished! (As if the criminals would comply)\n\nI wouldn't try to label ALL liberals as if they are this extreme.
495703
I don't want to see an angry terrorist. period.\n\nI don't care if he or she is muslim, christian, or a follower of the flying spaghetti monster. Angry terrorist is enough.
94977
In Islam, one of its main deals is that you can't draw a picture of either God or Prophet Muhammed, or portray them in a film, etc. \n\nIslamic art is mostly based on script (writing) because of it and mosques don't contain pictures like churches do, or stained glass windows, etc.  Mosques do have great Arabic calligraphy though that can be seen as a sort of picture, but because it's letters it isn't.\n\nWhile it may seem "funny" to the West that these people are so mad about a cartoon you have to understand the Islamic world better.  The Islamic world thinks that the West is out to put McDonalds up in place of every mosque and they think that most Westerners hate them and want to destroy their religion.\n\nInstead of saying to them, "hey Muslims, chill out man, we're just like you,"  the cartoonists and newspapers basicially said "you know what, you people are idiots and we disrespect you to your face".\n\nNow Islamic criticism does exist, so do portrayals of the prophet, in cartoon and critically.  So why this particular set of cartoons?  Because some political leaders in the Middle East are provoking these riots, mostly done by uneducated men who have never seen the cartoons.  It's a politically motivated event.  The cartoons were published last September for J's sake.\n\nAlso, the entire Middle East isn't rioting, it's a few dummies.  Most Middle Easterners, while Muslim, are upset about it, but care more about their jobs, family, living day to day, etc.  \n\nA fantastic blog is listed below, it's by a Saudi guy living in London and is against all Islamic extremism, check it out.\n\nHope my answer helped.
165766
No, and neither is Islam, nor Judaism. Thousands of years ago, violence against those who didn't believe in the same stuff you did was acceptable and the norm.\n\nBut the thing is, America and Europe realized this (around the time of the Renaissance), and made their governments and society more secular. Islam never did, and thus they still cling to the notion of "We're offended by your cartoons depicting us as violent! Burn and die, infidel scum!"
411117
It offended me how the Muslims followed up with a cartoon of Ann Frank in bed with Hitler. For goodness sake she was a little girl who died in a concentration camp.\n\nI think the're acting like school kids - "well you stole my juice, so I'm going to steal your cookie." Not worth all those people dying for is it?
139650
Remember, the U.S. had nothing to do with that "cartoon"!  get over it.  You don't see Christians burning buildings and killing people when someone draws a cartoon of Jesus!  I have nothing against Muslims.  It's the radical uneducated jerks that need to learn tolerance.
158474
The same reason they make cartoons of anything.  For fun.  I think that the whole uprising and the threats of war are stupid.  Yes, the prophet Muhammad said to his followers that he did not want to be idolized, but the artist is not Muslim and the Muslims didn't draw it.  No harm no foul.  Now they are trying to get back by drawing cartoons of the holocaust.  Like we're going to fly off the handle?  We're not the insane terrorist bombers like the few that reside within the Muslim religion.
365792
My icon rocks. First, its says that Islamic threats have not intimidated, I hold free speech highest in the pecking order of civil rights.\n\nNext, Ive receieved more death threats as a result of my Icon which must be a good thing coming from religious wacko freaks.\n\nAlso, I show respect for the brave Danish cartoonist who knowingly, IN ADVANCE, risked his life for free speech and will be looking over his should for life.\n\nFinally, Islamic insanity is the eptiome of religious insanity and thus to mock Islam, with all its intimidation, is to put me on the top of the agnostic/atheist pecking order by a long shot.
167971
1) Muslims are angry that while any criticism/joking about jews is often labeled anti-Semitic and quickly censored (it's illegal to question any aspect of the Holocaust in many European countries), the same countries are defending these cartoons as "freedom of speech".\n\n2) Many Muslims incorrectly believe that the Danish press, like theirs, is controlled by the state. Therefore, they see the cartoons as being sponsored and encouraged by the Danish government.\n\nPersonally, I disagree with them, and believe that \nAs for Christian outrage, look what NBC did with Will & Grace (Cruci-fixin), as well as how "The Book of Daniel" got axed.\n\nWe need to educate these people about the concepts of freedom, that people may say stuff you don't like, that's no reason to burn stuff.
122444
When the artist Andres Serrano displayed "Piss Christ" (which depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine) Christian's around the world didn't rise up and riot in the streets. They didn't kill anyone or call for the burning of embassies. The world didn't demand an apology from the artist....on the contrary, it was herald and given awards. Freedom of Speech groups rallied around and defended the piece.\n\nWhy are those groups not rising up now? The world is calling for an apology and it's simply ridiculous. I think that US News outlets should run the cartoons. Offensive or not, it's news.\n\nTo apologize and bow down to every little thing that irritates Muslims and terrorists alike is letting terrorism win. Don't get me wrong, I know that not all Muslims have a desire to "kill infidels." However, rioting in the streets, burning embassies and killing Europeans in the Middle East doesn't send a very good message to the rest of the world that they are a "religion of peace."
98963
I wouild say, "I am sorry that you have taken offense to this cartoon, but sometimes this is the price we must pay for a free press and free speech.  The main point is, sir, that in a free and open society if you are tolerant of what you interpret as a slur on your religion, other groups will be tolerant of your perceived slur on their religion.  Tolerance is the key.  If you find this impossible, you cannot expect Jews to tolerate a Muslim religious leader calling Judiasm a 'gutter religion.'"
136997
Yes, it should be of unlimited proportions. Freedom of speech should not and cannot be twisted to the point where it is no longer freedom of speech.\n\nHowever, freedom of speech goes hand in hand with the idea of personal responsibility and accountability. Producing those cartoons was technically legal, but it was irresponsible. Surely the cartoonist knew that those cartoons would cause trouble in extremist countries.\n\nHowever, I also think that the Islamic world is greatly overreacting. They are ruining their credibility and making themselves look like a bunch of whinging little kids who riot at the most petty insult. Do you know how many "Jesus Christ" parody websites exist online? How many Christians burn down embassies for stuff like that?
94189
Actually some muslim newspaper is going to publish cartoons about holocaust and exuse with freedom of speech. Still I think these are too differnt things. People had died during holocaust, and Mohammed is just a religios figure. Even more, poeple actually die in his name....
144189
Islam stands strong and firm amidst the misinformation, malpractice and ignorance about it. Success is promised to those who adhere to the Qur'aan and Sunnah, following the guidance and keeping away from prohibitions. All the issues we face in today's complex world are put into their proper context as we keep ourselves under the shade of Allah, the Most Merciful.\n   There is no doubt that the offensive cartoons are part of the propaganda which accompanies warfare. They serve to ridicule and humiliate the enemy. They are no innocent expressions of so-called freedom of speech.The provocative cartoons were intended as an attack against Muslims and that which they hold sacred. Art cannot be taken as an excuse for abuse. \n    Allah the almighty also wants us to be strong and show those attack us no mercy, we did the right thing by boycotted Danish goods and when the Egyptian owner of the French newspaper France Soir sacked his editor, those were the right responses. \n    They were saying to the perpetrators: Put your money where your mouth is, attack us if you want to, but be prepared to pay the price. The Jewish lobby have very successfully ostracised anybody whose anti-Zionist views they did not like as anti-Semitic and ensured corresponding sanctions. Let the Muslims do the same.\n they were trying and still trying to destroy Islam and muslim but they can't, they are afraid because islam is growing bigger and stronger. Allah want us to be patient when someone makes you angry and don't react in the same manner. Forgive those who treated you badly in anticipation of Forgiveness of your LORD to your sins and excesses on The Day of Judgement.\n   we are strongest nation ever that what makes them scared and trying to destroy muslims.\n When the United States prepared to attack Iraq they first softened up their target by words and economic sanctions. Since then they have put all of Islam into their sights and hope to destroy one Muslim nation after the other. Maybe their cartoons have spelt this fact out more clearly and maybe they can provide a wake-up and rallying call for Muslims the world over, but only if it is clearly understood that you don’t defend God or his prophet by continuing to do business with their enemies.
84016
-From the source quoted below...\n\n"Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear."\n\n"While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized. "\n\n<snip>\n\nIt's also hypothsised that the situation was inflamed by the addition of 3 images that were NOT printed by the Danish newspaper.\n\n"Yet when a delegation of Danish imams went to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars, the imams openly distributed a booklet that showed 15 images -- not only the original 12 cartoons, but three fraudulent anti-Mohammed depictions that were much more offensive than the ones published in Denmark. It is now thought that these three bonus images are what ignited the outrage in the Muslim world. The newspaper Ekstra Bladet obtained a copy of the booklet and presented the three offensive images on its Web site (though not in an easy-to-find place). All look like low-quality photocopies."\n\nIt comes down to a clash of cultures and an intolerance of world views. Perhaps with a little provocation thrown in. I can't explain the level of violence though. Seems pretty extreme.