As it was perpetually highlighted in this forum, even my grammar points on possibilities to pick up significant mental differences between folks round a globe – and an "Australian way of thinking" surely.

Far away from sharing even a shadow of apologies for a war on terror and related issues, watching the cartoons hardly understands logic of Danish authors where hatred towards Islamists was clearly shifted to ridicule the gods they worship.

A reason of this message is no ignition of deliberating a topic on either faiths / atheism themselves or their place in a modern world, but expressing a difference clearly seen by too many round a globe between ridiculing particular nations, symbols and customs and the gods themselves, of which semantic differentiation is as in addition understood from this forum, out of reach for too many CIVILISED participants.

At the time “Pissed Chris” had initiated too much fuss, debates in the US Congress and street protests inclusively (Who paid for all this – and who definitely pays for recent pogroms on the Westerns embassies in a Muslim world?) – and was even more recently vandalised in TOLERANT Melbourne once again.

Life of Brian and South Park are easily avoided because we know their cast in advance whereas a newspaper cartoon is an instant shock. And how many Western newspapers have ever printed a cartoon lampooning Christ? Have their non-Western counterparts ever done so?

Martin Ibn Warriq

I notice that Hirsi Ali (in the reference provided by you) is calling for Muslims to wake up and realize that it was humans who wrote the holy scriptures. In the references I provided previously concerning the old documents found in the Mosque in Yemen, it is pretty clear that the Koran does indeed have a history.

It is also pretty clear we have a job ahead of us to persuade the Muslim community that it is in their best interest that they open up the Koran to legitamate criticism and analysis devoid of manipulation by a bevy of poorly educated and semi literate Imams,protecting their personal interests

How do you suggest we may encourage this to happen, because happen it must

5 people dead now over these bl--dy cartoons. REAL lotta tolerance.

Well I am annoyed. I submitted a comment to Andrew Wests blog in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning in relation to his article stating that the cartoons should be published and my comment does not appear to have been posted it went something like this:

"If we are not required to consider each others sensitivities and feelings then how are we ever going to live in Peace and Harmony

We should NOT publish the cartoons. They have already been published and anybody who wants to see them knows where to go - the internet will show you all. If we publish them it is only to aggravate, antagonise and harrass and thats bullying and we have got to be better than that!!

Otherwise we are going to be killing each other for ever. What sort of a future is that for our children?

Best interest of the child should always be of paramount concern. Please stop to think of the children, they deserve better than hostility, aggression and violence and they learn by example.

Enough is enough, things need to be turned around. For our children's sake.

ginger meg,

and what reaction would you expect from christians to a lampoon of christ or God?

Surely not threats and embassy burning?

All this reaction just demonstates the dangers to modern societies of mediaeval mindsets.

perhaps you can explain how you would react to a jesus cartoon?

Eg replace Mohhamed by jesus in the subject cartoons or picture jesus/god carrying bombs/torturing prisoners while assisting george bush in his war/crusade against terror? or something from your own imagination.

My guess is most Christians would simply dismiss it as nonsence and not give it a second thought.