Selective Justice Is Injustice

Christians have learned to put up with their God being portrayed in all sorts of negative manners. They believe that their God could not be done any justice by any means of art on this earth, so it is no big deal.
Even so, people should respect others religions even if they dont agree with them.

Fine, selective justice is injustice. However, none of what was said by the MPAC is an argument for not publishing the images. In fact, this argument asserts that freedom of speech being violated is an "injustice" - so why is it on the anti-publishing side? If anything, all this is saying is that we should more consistently apply freedom of speech instead of only applying it on this topic. Great. You're right. Holocaust denial should not be a legally punishable crime . Perhaps the MPAC brought up this example to try to show that censorship is sometimes justified. Which one is it?

I failed to receive the memo announcing that it was ok to prohibit those things that some people find offensive. I mean, if you want to go down that road, I find it offensive that Muslims have to bow to pray. Therefore, I want that practice banned.

We all, at least in America, have the right to practice our religion the way we want. What we do not have is the right to be offended. Some things may offend you, but guess what, who cares. I am a Christian. I see things every day that offend me. I can choose to react appropriately or not. You and your ilk, appear to believe everyone else should cowtow to your wish and your belief. Not in America.

When I start to see Muslims stand up against Christian bigotry, or, for that matter, any other religious bashing, then I might consider standing up for Islam. I have yet to see that in any way, shape or form. All I see is a demand from Muslims that they have their needs met, the damage to society be damned. You may claim to promote peace, but your actions, and this is one of them, betray your words.

Your point that caricatures of Jesus or Moses would not be found in the Muslim world brings up an interesting question: if those two did not hold such high places in Islam, what would be the reaction from the Christian world if a mainstream Muslim newspaper published an equivalent to the Danish cartoons?

I can’t say that there would be no violent repercussions, nor even that there would be no outrage, as every group has its extremists. I can say with certainty that the first to condemn such reactions would be Christians themselves. It’s not the actions of a few Muslims that really have the world frightened, but the resounding silence from so called “non-extremists.”

Purposely offending a group of people with no purpose is wrong. Since I don't know the content of the article or what information the cartoons were trying to convey I can't comment specifically. Since no one knows what Muhammad looked like how can anyone publish images of him? Were the images caricatures simply meant to insult?