Reply #14: Have you noticed that you don’t actually answer what is said to you?

[ironbark]

That you ignore >all< key points, issues and questions and continue an ever morphing one man monologue?

“And both of our interpretations are espoused by different groups of Muslims.”

Ah huh…and those who espouse the interpretation I put forward represent the vast majority by a factor of well over ten to one…they do not have portraits of Mohammed in Mosque or home, they do not “worship” Mohammed and they are indifferent to western cartoonists.
The fringe Muslims who reflect your ‘interpretation’ are as numericaly significant to Islam as KKK or Malitia groups are to Christianity.

“. I know from previous experience with you that you are desperate to find any way you can to defend people of any faith”

Perhaps you are referring to my recognition that religious schools and welfare agencies are in the front line of reporting and protecting against child abuse? A proposition you desperately declared a “lie” and dismissed with “ NOBODY gets kudos from me for preventing child abuse”

And now you demonstrate as much interest/understanding in Muslim parents seeking to protect their families from the excesses of western media/culture…..that is- zero interest, zero understanding.

“1. Many Muslims, due to their interpretation of the Qu'ran, believe that images of the prophet are an obsence gesture and an insult to their religion.”

Yea, Many Americans (pick a nation) , due to their interpretation of national identity, believe that the flag is sacred and that burning a piece of cloth is an obscene gesture and an insult to their nation.
Some will proclaim preparedness to die to defend the flag and a lunatic fringe will harm or kill to do so.

>ALL< you have identified is that within >any< group/population- political, religious, national there are a small minority who hold symbols to be sacred.

So what?

“2. Muslims like these have made many a threat to western cartoonists and others in regard to images of the prophet.”

Yup…There are minority nutters and fringe extremists on the edge of groups/populations- political, religious, national.
So what?
Are the “threats to western cartoonists” to be our sole and exclusive concern? Or are we also concerned with sexualisation and objectification of women and children in western media beamed into Islamic countries? Are we concerned with organised paedophile/tourist rings targeting Muslim nations (Indonesia).
Many Muslims perceive many threats from the west…cartoons are not their highest nor exclusive concern and ought not be ours either.