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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
MattyC, I agree with your overall point, but I'm not sure I agree with this:
The cartoons target one particular doctrine of Islam - anti-iconography and the prescribed consequences thereof. They don't target Islam as a whole (at least not without knowing their contents). This contest would not exist if there were not people willing to kill you (or do other bad things to you beyond denouncing you) simply for creating an icon of the prophet. That's a particular doctrine that is a bad thing for people to believe, and is in itself "extreme" at least by my definition.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to take a religion - a set of religious principles - and look at individual principles and say, "this is a bad thing to believe".
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I don't think they do target it. I think they THINK they do, because as you say, the whole point is that we shouldn't be killing people for drawing cartoons of a prophet.
But I personally don't think that just drawing more cartoons of him is the right approach. I think you should parodying those that find it offensive enough to murder someone over it. And I know that this is their way of doing that, I just think it's the wrong avenue to take. I think showing cartoons of those who are killing people for such a ludicrous reason would be more impactful.
We should be trying to get to the point of "Wow, people are killing in the name of MY beliefs because they made fun of our prophet? That's completely ridiculous." instead of "Look, they're making fun of our prophet, I guess we should renounce Islam." Because the second one doesn't work and isn't the end game. It's an attempt to eradicate Islam vs showing people of that mind why killing people over this is ridiculous. Continually prodding the initial provocation I don't think will ever work.
Lets say you continually poke your brother to the point that he snaps and breaks your leg with a bat, obviously taking it way to far. Do you think it would be better to continue poking him to try and show him why he shouldn't have reacted so extremely, or to show him a video of his reaction so he can see how ridiculously over the top it was?