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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Tell me you read those four quotes and couldn't figure out what I was talking about.
The point is, Christians may have been offended, but not because of some Christian doctrine.
If you take a representation of a religious figure and put it in urine or dung, chances are, I dunno, pretty good that you're going to offend some adherents of that religion. That's true whether you're talking about Christ, Mohammed, Zoroaster or Mithra. But Moslems have an additional, distinct reason to take offense -- namely, the prohibition on depicting Mohammed at all. The first sort of offense derives from the underlying message. As I understand it, the second sort of offense relates to the means.
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David Brooks wrote an excellent piece a copule of days ago in the NYTimes Opeds in which he explained perfectly why these "people" taking such offense to this cartoon are absurd and opportunist and really working toward a much deeper agenda. You should read it. It's well reasoned and would probably require you at least an hour of mental gymnastics and creation of warped arguments to refute.
