Maybe now they'll stop mocking the "They Hate Our Freedom" explanation of Islamic Fundamentalists' vitriol.

Well we have freedom of speech and expression so to the nutjobs. GET OVER IT.

How about. refrain from invoking Mohammed as justification for viewing us as infidels who are going to suffer eternal torment and we won't take the mickey out of your prophet.

I can't help but find it interesting that never once has the "Muslim Street" ever expressed this kind of outrage for a terrorist attack, even against fellow Muslims.

However, depicting Mohammed as a terrorist incites them to consider terrorism against all Scandanavians.

Sounds to me like these cartoon hit the nail on the head.

It gets harder and harder to want to help these bastards at all.

I figure it's just a matter of time before an American newspaper or magazine (probably a conservative one) tries the same stunt; I'm curious to see what happens then. Death threats, followed by hasty apologies? Or will it just get ignored? We'll see.

Something else we agree on, Karol!

Rats!

Right back atcha, Karol!

Hey, and get this - advised to watch Richard Dawkins’ TV show about the evils of religion, I was shocked that this Oxford professor, however excellent his grasp of reason, understood less than fuck-all about belief. Confronted by a fascinatingly hate-able fundamentalist cleric in the markets of Jerusalem’s Muslim quarter, the genial professor was left mouth agape when Allah’s errand boy accused Western women of dressing like whores and then demanded of Western males:

“You must fix your women.”

You could see Dawkins shooting this clerical knobshiner the inner-Vs, but really the professor had the ideal opportunity then and there to explain to him that here in the West, we’ve had enough Mathew Hopkins-style witch burnings, and Cromwellian Puritan style leaders to last us each a hundred lifetimes, and rather than ‘fix our women’ as he so pragmatically puts it, we Men Of The West are happy for ladies to do what they wish, which is most likely (in light of Global Warming) to be wearing even less in the future than at present, so wake up you bastard son of St Paul; Dawkins could even have commented slightly more directly: “Motherfucker, we spent the past 2000 years helping our women get out of your daft restricted get-up, now YOU get with the programme, you arrogant Fender-less eunuch!”

But Dawkins said nothing because he ain’t roll’n’roll, and because he don’t know fuck-all about belief. Earlier on in the show, our ‘hero’ had been all but arrested in the Bible-bashing American Midwest for being rude enough to Christian evangelical preacher Ted Haggard to accuse him of holding sermons reminiscent in atmosphere of a Nuremberg Rally. That Dawkins said this with a smile on his face seemed to make this okay in his Book of Reason – me, I’d have twatted the smarmy sneer of his goyisch fizogg. But instead, Haggard – a dead ringer for the neo-Nazi Neidermeyer character in ANIMAL HOUSE – just told him not to be so arrogant and shot him a smile that could have lasered off Pete Burns’ piles at 10,000 paces. In his own way, surely, Professor Dawkins’ steadfast adherence to ‘the facts’ is no less a product of belief in his own cloistered secular worldview than the stupid tunnel vision which he accuses believers of. And while, of the three, I hated the preacher most of all purely because of my unabating hatred of all short-haired white male authority figures, the mad professor was (to my mind) only slightly less dodgy than the Muslim cleric, and only then because Dawkins’ World of Reason could be achieved without the death of non-believers and a million agonizing clitoridectomies…

btw, is this "teardrop explodes" Julian Cope? just in case it is, I'd like to state that Tamworth is still the same dog-hole it was when you lived there.

btw Julian, you seem to have been watching a different essay to the one I saw. Did you forget (or not hear) that the fundamentalist cleric you spoke of is a New York born former jew? No religion came off particularly well from interview, and this was sort of the point (like the christian defending his friend who killed the abortion doctor, and then used the bible to justify it.
The Haggard incident also had Haggard trying to tell Professor (in the field of evolutionary genetics) Dawkins the current thinking in his field. Dawkins likening to Nuremburg was used to assert that questions and evidence based research and thinking were discouraged over blind fanatical faith.
I thought this was fascinating TV, and it posed questions which were genuinely interesting. It was blunt and very rude about religion generally, I'd be wrong not to say that.