Reply #2: it's comparing apples and oranges [View All]

[tocqueville]

and falling into the game of the Islamists

1) the Danish cartoons can be considered as blasphemy (by Muslim standards) but to see them as a violently anti-arabic (racially) is preposterous. One of them maybe, but absolutely not the others. Blasphemy is not longer criminal in the West, even if some old laws can still exist, but are not applied. Remember that the original protesters in Denmark tried to use an old blasphemy law to attack the paper, not discrimination laws.

2) Nobody would be really offended if someone made a cartoon about Moses, Abraham, Noah etc... or even for example about a a confused rabbi celebrating Christmas, playing on religious themes, except some Christian fundies. Depicting Jews as a group as a blood-thirsty, money-hungry bunch or making "fun" of the holocaust is completely different.

the Islamic fundies want to pass the message "Koran-blasphemy = racial hatred" to justify their deeds. There are Muslims from very different ethnies, the same for Christians. The claim is preposterous.

So anti-semitic cartoons cannot be an answer even coming from Jews.