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Originally Posted by Lucky boy
True freedom of speech can never exist. There will always be limitations. I honestly don't believe that anyone here would be okay if an extremely offending cartoon about them or about a family member (such as a daughter or a son) was put up in a major newspaper for the world to see.
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It's been mentioned, but your comparison is completely invalid. Unless you can show us a family member of Muhammad who is upset about these cartoons.
The comparison would be how offended we would get if an extremely offending cartoon of our $diety/$prophet were put up in a major newspaper for the world to see. I'll leave it to you to figure out how the reactions would be different.
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Obviously reacting with riots and violence is wrong, but for us to expect muslims to not get offended at all is also wrong. Why should we in the west decide what they should and shouldn't be offended by? Why do we have that right?
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Who's not expecting Muslims to get offended? This may come as a shock to you, but nobody has the right not to be offended.
This offended many Christians, but the world at large still respects the artists right to create their work. This is no different.
Or is it different becuase extremist Muslims are more likely to riot, plot murders and threaten a Fatwa against anyone they disagree with, while Christians are more likely to express their discontent with a lot of empty rhetoric? Might makes right?
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That is what I meant by when I said we are forcing our way of thinking on them. I just don't think it is a truly a battle for freedom of speech. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though.
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Nobody has said "You are not allowed to maintain your religious rule about images of Muhammad." What the world is saying is "You are not allowed to push your religious rule on us. We are not Muslim, we have our own beliefs, and we have our own rights to express them."