Where oh where to begin. You've all gone so far off topic I don't know who or what I should reply to first. Yea, I think the guy wearing the shirt sure does have a brass set of balls. If you think the Muslims are making too big of a deal about it then you haven't though about the issue very much. What if it was an Arab who drew some cartoons of Jesus or Mary doing something politically incorrect? The West would be pissed! I don't know exactly whom said which of these statements but as I read through all of these posts, these are the statements that stuck out:

"Frankly, those who are protesting, be it peacefully or violently, are showing themselves for exactly what they are....Intolerant..." I was thinking something more like, enlightened.

I do argree with part of what you said:

"People who are intolerant of things only put up with them for so long..."

Yep.

- The thing is, what if the shoe was on the other foot.....what if every time a Muslim insulted a Christian and we turned out onto the streets, and violently rioted, and burned their embassies or mosques.

We don't? The more they resist and protest, the more we bomb, destroy, and murder. Mosques, embassies, schools, & hospitals!


- Their is no rational amongst the so called elders of this religion, if Catholics were to start rioting, all it would take would be one word from the Pope (stop) and the rioting would stop, why because Christianity does believe it or not, listen to their Church leaders, most times.

I have to disagree. There are rational elder leaders, you just don't want to listen to them. Yeah sure some of the Catholics would stop, but the ones with a mind of their own would not. Believe it or not, all Catholics are not sheep. Now the last part of your statement is what gets me. If you seriously listened to church leaders MOST TIME, the U.S. wouldn't have so many problems. I smell BS. Well someone did hit the nail on the head here:

- Democracy is more of a Western ideal. Most of these Middle Eastern countries do not have true democratic government.

If you think about it, we don't either. We do not have a true democracy either.
This is another thing I wanted to address:

-Hmmmm, as I see it, the main problem is that these people who are demonstrating don't even know the tenets of their own religion.How many of them could cite the six pillars of Islam?

Heh, can you with out useing a search engine? Can YOU name the 12 sermons on the mound? Do YOU really know the tenets of YOUR religion? Remember no search engine and if you have to look it up in your bible it doesn't count either. You may cheat and use either one, but you are only cheating yourself. Moveing forward:

- Instead of burning down embassys to get noticed, why don't they make an advance in sience, technology, music, literature, government, etc etc.

Yeaaaaah um.. how do you reccomend they get funding? How are they supposed to make any kind of advance while they're constantly under attack? It's hard to do research under those conditons. Don't you think?

- I'm not sure where the phrase originated, but a massive glass parking lot keeps looking more and more attractive. I only imagine that desire to become more proliferate once alternate fuel sources are maintained.

That was mildly humorus the first time I heard it also but it isn't a phrase I would use in a duel of wits over eastern philosophy. The thing is, we haven't found an alternative fuel source adequate enough to take the place of oil. My guess is that we won't.

- What is most astonishing to me is that there are still people in western
Europe and America who still beleive that this is all our fault,
and that we need to further compromise our laws and traditions
to restore "peace" When are we going to burn their embassies?


It isn't? We're innocent right? Actually we've been bombing embassies, mosques, civilian houses, and more since 9/11. So, cheers, I hope it makes you day.

- Can we just go take the oil and leave them to play in the sand?
(not out of context )
Wasn't that the purpose since the begining?


- I've adapted my illegal immigrant idea to deal with these protestors.
Anyone protesting in a violent fashion is clubbed to the ground and dragged to a holding cell before being shipped to the coast. Each of these protestors is then given a free ticket to leave the country via a large catapult or trebuchet. Anyone protesting as a bomber is attached to a cheap MK-84 bomb and flicked towards Mecca before being martyred by remote control. The rest of them can swim for it after they get dropped in the North Sea.

Actually that first part isn't far from the truth. Protestors, violent or not, are usually clubbed to the ground and dragged to jail. I think alot of us would leave if we had a large magical catapult to launch us over seas and land safely. I wish it were that easy. The rest of your illegal immigrant idea just sounds like jibberish and I cannot force my IQ down low enough to come up with a reply you would understand. By the way, Robin Williams' plan is stupid.

OH! OH! I almost forgot!

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Seriously though, this is the major stumbling block for the majority of Islamists, they have been fed crap for so long it would take years to debrief or what's the word they use when they rescue kids from those cults, sort of unbrainwash them.

Seriously? If you want to look at who eats the most crap, let's take a look at the U.S. and other Western countries. How long would you estimate for it to take to debrief or "unbrainwash" them?

- Yeah, they might take hostages and cut off some heads. In fact maybe we
are all taking a big risk over this "free speech" ****. Better to be quiet
and hope they don't beat the door down in the middle of the night
and drag you away. After all "free speech ain't worth dying for is it?

Yes.


- whoever is offended by the cartoons, should drink some draino..and go **** themselves. (not out of context )

Freedom of speech at its finest.


edit:
OH, if you go back and read the whole post from the author I quoted, my comments still address the same issue and most of my replies weren't out of context.. very much.