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Originally Posted by Adam
cartoons can be seen here
As a non-Muslim, I don't think most of them are very offensive at all, but I probably lack the cultural context to understand why they're offensive.
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Um... yeah.
I keep hearing that it was a Islamic reaction to "offensive portrayals of Muhammed."
Now... How does anyone, particularly a Dane, know what Muhammed looks like? I mean really. They look to me like caricatures of stereotypic Islamic types, rather than "Muhammed". Of course, I can't read Danish, either, so I guess it could be labelled as such. But, I don't see it.
So, I guess it's just fine for protesters in the Islamic world to gather together and call westerners "the Great Satan", burn effigies, and urge death upon us all, but if we do it, it's an offense to Islam.