Reward for the death of a cartoonist

[Trojanfarce]

Well well well. No great surprise I guess!

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1212643,00.h tml

[Trojanfarce]

I did think however that the cartoons were not the work of a single individual?

[Supernick]

Another example of an unforgivable, and way over the top response to offensive material. Just another extremeist's way of trying to stoke up a dying fire. Fingers crossed that the ordinary decent people in Pakistan won't be swayed by the ranting of a madman.

[Drusilla]

Can I suggest people take a look at the New Statesman site below and enjoy a few Muslim cartoons, which I hope will show not all Moslems are rabid fanatics. One of the cartoons is a humorous indictment of the extremists who foster terrorism. within their communities.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200602200008

[Supernick]

Very good link Dru. Nice little column next to it a well. Are there any more examples out there?

[Loosehead]

They just don't get it do they, all they are doing is proving that the sentiments in the original Danish cartoons are correct!

[WoWo]

Exactly Loosehead, personally I think they are too stupid to realise it, something along the lines of....

"Were not all fanatics hell bent on the distruction of the west, Islam is a peacfull religion and we will kill anybody who says otherwise."

[WaldoMcFroog]

Okay, but what about all the bible-bashers who influence US politics? What about Christians who bomb abortion clinics? Right-wing Christianity is about as oxymoronic as you can get.

Point being, a few hypoctitical religious nutters who shout loud enough to make themselves heard are not the majority of people in either place.

[WoWo]

The point is it isn't a handfull of nutters, it's a large proportion of the religion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4726204.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4725116.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4709380.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4716762.stm