Those cartoons and the reaction to them in print should not be underestimated.
Surely its clear this is now out of control?, this Saturday the Sydney Telgraph page 19.
Cartoons can be seen that have been printed in middle eastern papers so full of hate and spite I am breathless!
And in that same paper and on every news broadcast the Malaysian prime minister , a moderate?
Is quoted saying the invasion of Afganistan was wrong? helped bring this on?
Talban murdered people on sports grounds in public!
Blew other relidgions icons up!
Stop the lies, its true one sided attempts to live together and understand others views will never work.
Islam seems to me to be unable to see its own faults.
Sorry but a war is the result if both sides are not honest.

Sajo asks,"What can we do to help us understand each other better?" I know the answer to that is the East and the West must always live apart.
We in the west have opened our countries and our services to help the poor "asylum seekers" from Muslim countries and what do we get in return? Demands, demands and more bloody demands,insults, violence, shootings, bashings. That is how our kindness has been repaid.
So to restore the peace that we had before, we must return to the status we had before and rid this country of those ingrates who deserve only that which they had before.And the sooner the better.

'... ideas by those filthy minds who claim themselves to be scholars, writers and journalists.'

I couldn't agree more. The vile hate literature and anti-western, anti-Semitic filth produced in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries certainly fits this description. What else but 'filthy minds' could produce the idea that Jews drink blood? Or that all Western women are whores? Likewise the Australia-hating garbage produced and disseminated by Muslims in this country. I would also include the obscene rants of visiting 'clerics' - like the one who claimed that women were responsible for their own rape because they refuse to wear all-emcompassing shrouds.

"The creators .. of insulting material which directly hurt and harm society must be accountable and taken to the international court of justice."

In this case, the court would be overrun with Muslim defendents, who seem to have no problem dishing out insults and violence to others, but lash out like wild beasts when Islam gets the same treatment.

The rioting, burning and killing has shown us the true Islam. Strange that there were no protests when followers of the 'religion of peace' destroyed the ancient Buddhas, and burned and desecrated Christian churches.

Yet you advise us to surrender to this bigotry? This demonstrates that you (and the majority of Muslims) dont have a clue.

The muslims are rampaging around the place and they don't even realise these cartoons were published back in October in an Egyptian newspaper. Didn't hear a squeak then!
So what is it really about?? Its all about hateing the west.

Alan Bond derides our ancestory as convicts. He wouldn't think for a minute ( and sadly he hasn't been educated) that these "convicts' were in many instances victims of ethnic cleansing from the countryside. Has he ever heard of the chartists, the highland clearances, the potatoe famine, the enclosure acts, the church of england tithes, the Lutherans from Germany that were forced to South Australia etc etc. No one in their right mind would have come to 19th century Australia to battle disease and isolation unless they were forced.

I am descended from these 19th century refugees. I actually went back to Europe to try and live and work but guess what! The Europeans kicked me out as I was only entitled to a 2 year holiday maker visa. They would rather have gangs of unassimable muslims changing their laws and way of life. I would have given my rights up in Australia to an Abrorigine but in return I want a muslim to give me his house in Europe. Fair is fair Alan.

Opinionated2,
Yes that is the difference between the Alan-Bold's and us, we are rational human beings, they are full of hatred it seems, so we should show compassion and humanitarianism and send them back to where they came from, so they can be happy once more. It would appear that Muslims don't recognise Freedom of Speech, unless it suits them. That is never how it has operated in this great country. I say publish the cartoons in Australia, and see who reacts, if some do charge them with treason, and either deport them or lock them up.

Not very fair, but then neither are they, I quite like multi-culturism however I do not like people coming here telling us what we will and won't do, this country has been inhabited for 80,000 years, and we have done just fine, until these people came, who hate us it seems because we don't believe what they believe. It has to be a pretty cool day in Hell before I agree wholeheartedly with Col Rouge, redneck and co, but agree I do, and so should anyone with an ounce of grey matter......