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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
But they're perfectly entitled to offend people. This does nothing to prevent those people from practicing their religion. A lot of Christians are offended by people talking about evolution, but they're still perfectly capable of believing their own version of history.
Incidentally, and more importantly, identifying Muslims with Arabs is ignorant. Islam has over 1.5 billion adherents and is arguably the most ethnically diverse religion in terms of its membership on the planet.
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I'm not identifying Muslims with Arabs, but rather Mohammed with Arabs (he was an Arab). Therefore the cartoons are both offensive to Muslims from a general religious point of view regardless of race, but also Arabs from a specifically racial point of view regardless of religion (the caricatures usually have racial undertones to Arabs).
The evolution analogy also doesn't fit because teaching evolution is necessary. Drawing cartoons is not.