re: #327 b_sharp

You’ve created an artificial difference.

First off, the discussion was about the cartoons themselves, how the content, which by the way cannot be separated from being published, is viewed by the religious followers, how it affects their religious beliefs, how it injures their faith.

Your argument is suggesting that the cartoon of Jesus and the Pope is worse than the Mohammed cartoons because Catholics have not chosen to utter death threats.

This akin to saying that if I punch a Catholic in the face and she just smiles, but I punch a Muslim in the face and she kicks me in the junk, the punch I gave the Catholic was worse.

Secondly, if the cartoon is not published the content is irrelevant, we never see it. If the cartoon is published but the content is not offensive, whether it is published or not makes no difference. The content and the fact of being published cannot be separated, they are effectively one and the same.

I’m not sure I understand your point.

Unlike the Mohammed cartoons, no one objected to the publication of the cartoon, and no one called for violence or death.

Are you saying that because Christians objected to the content of the cartoon as Muslims objected to the content of the Mohammed cartoons (and them some), there are no differences?