nasty cartoons

[mrmod]

Would you willingly go into an Islamic community wearing a t-shirt blaspheming Mohammad and expect to walk out alive?
You have every right to wear that t-shirt, but because of your knowledge of how some Muslims (extremists) react I'm guessing you would refrain from wearing your shirt and for several reasons ... (1) you are a respectful person and would not willing insult ... (2) you would exercise common sense and accept the boundaries ... (3) you would fear being harmed. Vilks was not being respectful ...he was not using common sense ... indeed he was exercising his right to freedom of expression through his drawings and in turn provoked a highly sensitive and volatile group of people and unwillingly invited an assault. Muslim communities are world wide and even though we live in the western world respecting and defending freedom of speech we share this land with a people of very limited tolerance and an entirely different way of thinking.

Sweden is not a muslim country. I would choose reason 3 foremost and above all the others. They will try to harm me or anyone who they don't like (or who doesn't agree with their point of view).

When they're playing in their home ground, they've got advantage (namely their Sharia and other religious laws). Sweden is a free democratic country and I'm sure you agree with me that extremists had no right to try and silence him.

I think we're hitting the same nail here, just from different angles though .