I’m a bit put out today. I am exposed daily to information that offends me. It may be news about my government breaking the law to violate my privacy. It could be the obscene quarterly profits announcement of a Mega-Corp. These things can annoy and sometimes even anger me.
I’m not immune to being offended when someone criticizes my religion. The Episcopal Church has received plenty of misleading, inaccurate and just plain bad press in the last two years. Why does this matter? I don’t attack someone’s embassy when they offend me. I don’t assume that I have the one true perspective and anyone that disagrees with my way of seeing the world should die.
If you are Muslim and offended by these cartoons, I apologize. I don’t generally seek to insult people. If you are Muslim, and think I should die for posting them on my personal website, well then you can kiss my White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ass.
++Alan
[Update] Follow these links for more info:
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD108806
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My favorite so far, with high quality versions of the cartoons: Mohammed Image Archive
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