Dear fellow member Kalweb (Kay)

I think what you have mentioned supports that people are ignorant and are commenting on issues they have no basic knowledge of. - As Christianity –Judaism - Islam have been in practice for a very long time – this is a perfect example of how people do not know the facts and lack knowledge but yet are willing to give firm comments…

A perfect example why we are globally in turmoil…

Yes Syed,criminalise any criticism of all religions and soon you will be stifle all free speech just as they do in most Muslim countries.Our democracy and freedom of speech is just as sacred to us,as religion is to the Muslims.Try and change that and you'll have a real fight on your hands.No anti-religious vilification laws that the politically correct can manipulate to their own ends.

If Muslims had the common sense to ignore the cartoons,they wouldn't have even got a mention in the media,let alone world wide exposure.I think some Muslims like to get enraged,since it gives them a sense of power and purpose.They protest too much.The outrage is just acknowledging their perceived superiority of the West,and their desire to settle old scores which are longer even revelant.

It is time for Muslims to grow up and join the 21st century.

I can agree with Sayed up to a point in that the media do have a responsibility to show some respect. Unfortunately many journalists take the view that anything goes and many lives are unnecessarily destroyed because of it (eg. Princess Diana).

In the case of the Danish cartoons very little is gained from printing what is obviously antagonistic towards Muslims that could not be said in another less inflammatory way. However I disagree entirely with his objection towards publishing of 'Satanic verses' and 'Shame' that make important contributions towards awareness and debate. Just because someone may be offended is not sufficient reason alone not to publish something - especially as there seem to be some really sensitive souls out there. The point is that there really should be some value in the work itself before the 'freedom of speech' banner is raised.

My goodness...I wonder if all these Islamaphobes self-righteously talking of freedom of speech are equally vocal in their condemnation of the banning of David Irving from coming here. Surely that would follow..if you feel freedom of speech to be so important let's hear what he has to say....oh, I thought not.

In this political climate Muslims are easy game for bullies and those willing to jump on a popular band-wagon without having to do much reading or thinking.

This climate has been created by the US oil barons, who, for those in a coma these few years, has just invaded, occupied, stolen natural resourses from and commited mass murder in a Muslim country......HELLO....where are those self-righteous people when mass murder has taken place...oh, I see- it's different when Muslims are killed!

I do believe that the people in Muslim countries are being equally conned and manipulated by their leaders...as those in the west are. The vast majority of human beings are like pawns in a chess game between the so-called leaders. Perhaps the relationship between the Bush family- and other powerful US oil barons- and the Bin-Laden family-along with the Saudi and Kuwaiti oil barons is more close than that between the leaders and people of their respective countries.

One needs to ask why these cartoons were shown at all; they are neither funny or clever...just offensive...and provocative.

A current affair conducted a survey last night, asking should australia abandon multiculturalism. The result, 97% said dump it, 3% said keep it.

Too late though, their already here and totally wacko. So all voters for political parties, the supporters of Bush, Howard and Blair. The USA relgiion evangalists and PC lefties do gooders, hows it working for you now, screwed up again eh.

The smartest person to enter politics in 50 years, foretold this. But she was hounded out by the relgious freaks, lefties and righties until they jailed her for nothing. Whilst the nutters crowed about how they had stopped this racist from ruining this wonderful, multi relgious society.

This Syed bloke, sets it out in plain english. Its Islams way or nothing, they have enough numbers here now to make waves and create divisions.

Come on chrisians, when's your god coming to save all you true beleivers and support his muslim ones. He must be a bit confused about who to support. Next chapter will be, help, he didn' turn up. Maybe a scripture or two or three wouldn't help. The only way to stop this happening is remove relgion in this country and if the expression of their religion is more important than the safety and freedom of this country, then throw them out, their traitors.

You have to give Syed credit, he's not mucking around, we do it their way or bye bye, just like the rest of the relgious control world, totally stuffed.

To Synod Hassan

Knowing how sensitive the Muslims are these days, maybe the Danish media should have done more homework.

For example in our bush district Jew woolbuyers because of their strident wheeler-dealing, including sob stories, have long been the butt of jokes in country pubs, and certainly they could take it all with a smile. But never never did we ever see anything cynical in the press about migrants white, black or brown, and never about their religions, but that is not to say there was not plenty of cynical jokes behind the scenes.

It is believed that any competent journalist should have known that with the rising resentment that most Muslims have for us Westerners right now, much of it our own fault, the reaction to the cartoon should have been imagined by an editor, as like throwing gasoline on a fire.

While on the job, it might be said there is disgust at the way so many of our contributors treat the United Nations. It is well to ask, in what way can the UN be replaced? Surely not by one unipolar power like the US, which as a democracy, the citizens can elect a party so right-wing the nation may as well be called a Fascist state. We already see it, with so many separation of power rules broken, one that the Federal Reserve should not be dictated to by government, and the other, that the head of the Supreme Court must not be appointed by government, but by the body of the Supreme Court itself. Refusing such rules can be liable for an impeachmen for a President or a PM.