..or 'depict' him in some way. I choose to show the prophet Mohammed appearing Mary-n-Jesus-like in a slice of soft, ripe cheese. Look..Just there.. Ever so lightly! There he is! Depicted!As anyone who hasn't been living on Lost island will have heard, some Muslims have a hitch in their craw about having their beloved prophet shown or depicted in any way. This irrational sensitivity has deluded those same Muslims into thinking they can act out violently, to the point of murder, when non-Muslims exercise their freedoms of expression and speech in depicting, cartooning or showing Mohammed.
Mind you. It is not the exercising of those freedoms that is causing the fervor, but the fact that some Muslims *choose* to be offended by this otherwise non-issue. Most Muslims couldn't care less about it. However, the conspicuous silence of those "moderate" Muslims- their failure to condemn the violence and threats committed by their brethren seems to tacitly condone that behaviour, and causes them to share in the culpability.
They seek to curtail our basic rights by using the only tactic available to their primitive intellects, brute intimidation. This is unacceptable.
Therefore, so as not to tacitly condone the behaviour myself, I lend my voice to support those basic rights of expression and speech that must be defended from the irrational.
Come get me, Muslims! I'm easy enough to track down!
In the end though, those wack-job religious fundies are forgetting an important aspect to all this ridiculousness. That little rule about depicting Mohammed applies to them, not to non-Muslims.
