I understand the reasoning behind the reverance of their prophet, but why did they choose these cartoons to riot over and not the hundreds/ thousands of similar/worse depictions of their prophet over the years?
Why was their no uproar regarding the southpark episode from 3 or so years ago? Surely that would be considered more heinous a crime...
Here's a website who's chronicled the depictions of muhammad over the years:
http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/ quote:
Mohammed Image Archive
Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History
The Mohammed Image Archive is a compendium of images that depict Mohammed (the 7th-century founder of Islam), spanning all historical periods, cultures and genres.
The inspiration for this Archive came from the global controversy over the publication of Mohammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and the need for a comprehensive and even-handed look at the wide variety of Mohammed depictions in Islamic and Western societies from the Middle Ages until today. It will remain online as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression. (Please note that the Arabic name "Mohammed" has over the years been transliterated into Western languages with several different spellings -- some of which you'll encounter on this site -- including Mahomet, Muhammad, and Mohamed.)
What gives? Why the anger over the current cartoons (some shown to be faked by the Danish Imams themselves
)?
As for the relevancy of the topic... the site is slooowww - what else are we gonna discuss that affects the worldwide audience members of the site? This topic touches every country represented here I think
This forum is a small part of the site as a whole and we've discussed religious/ political topics before... I guess we could bash google, microsoft, yahoo, et al regarding their policies of convenience regarding china...
