[mani]

one thing i think no one of the above has pointed out is that in islam you do not do faces etc of people let alone of the prophet. hence as someoen said they're all dead ppl in the pics etc.

more is actually known about how the prophet looked than jesus yet no one draws the face. end of the day there's been a million and one cartoons jokes about islam we all know and heard and laughed at them. there's been mullah hook and mullah so and so and were any voices raised to object at them? no. thats fine go ahead. free speech and freedom of the press and all that. but then when u go against a pliminary belief of a religion then u have to question why?

soemoen above said that no cartoons of say jesus were found in any publication of the islamic world. simple reason is cause muslims also believe that he was a prophet *not ness the son of god but a prophet nonetheless* so that kills that. but then what about hindu's? islam and hinduism has nothing in common yet for all the fundamentalist hindus *and there are ALOT of them esp in india* u dont get its arch enemy pakistan even during war makin caricatures in its newspapers of them. these are two nations who have gone to war twice gone nuclear cause the other one has that for 40-50 yrs banned direct travel between the two nations. yet there has not been one cartoon of the hindu gods hanuman or ganesh - as easy as it wud b there hasnt been one.

respect is earned and shud b expected too. the danes showed what i believe is a lack of respect to islam and what do they expect back? a garland of flowers and islamic nations sayin to here u can have a billion gallons of oil for free?

a presenter on 5 live summed up why there has been such a volatile reaction to this perfectly i feel. he said that in the uk christians are christians and go church on sundays. with the islamic world and the religion itself the way its beliefs adn prayers are organised the life there is organised around prayers etc and around religion and yes i'm here being sensible about it talkin etc and no flag burning but for those ppl in such arab nations this is just a huge insult to their whole life so to speak.

and dont forget it wasnt so long ago that the swedes and danes *i think* had the film life of brian banned from the country.