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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You should look up the response to the Danish cartoons of Muhammad. Islamic extremists have shown more than once that they don't need anything more than an apparent insult to their prophet in some form of media to get all smashy and murdery, regardless of the date.
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Quite true. I doubt there is anyone on CP who would feel comfortable going into a Middle Eastern country and exercising their right to free speech in the midst of a crowd of muslims, by criticizing Mohammed, Islam, or the Koran. To do that you would probably be risking severe injury if not death.
This is doubly true if you are female.
Unfortunately large numbers of followers of Islam (perhaps even a majority?) are still stuck in the middle ages, when it comes to freedom of religion, freedom of thought and expression, and civil rights.
Most followers of other religions have moved on and evolved over the centuries. Islamists seem to have digressed (I read somewhere that Islam was much more progressive in centuries past).