http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/02/pakistan.blast/index.html

Interesting. Muslim extremists doing what they do best. Notice I said "extremists".

Perhaps they should have sub-contracted this out to the Weather Underground, that would have made it all okay because you just don't understand their feelings and the world in which they live.

Perhaps they should have sub-contracted this out to the Weather Underground, that would have made it all okay because you just don't understand their feelings and the world in which they live.

Yeah theres a real brilliant correlation there.

There is no way to justify bombing over a cartoon.

Until that stops, until the extremists are reigned in by the moderates of the party there will be no chance of peace ;(

Agreed.

I wonder how the original cartoonists feel, knowing that people have died because of their joke?

Well I'm sure they are pained, but at the same time you can't allow the inbred few to tell you how to live.

No, and I certainly wouldn't want that. Just had the thought that what you have are a couple of probably middle class civilians living far from the actual conflict, making a statement based solely on principals. Did they understand what they were getting into? Does it mean more to them now that they've dealt with threats against their own lives, or in this case people have actually died over the cartoon? There's a bleak absurdity in there.

I wonder if the sadder fact is that people have killed over a cartoon.

/agree Rover.

I'm not sure I can wrap my head around following a religion that has a article of faith so weak it's upset by man's free will.

It's almost as sad as bombing for oil!

Not even in the same ballpark.

Fighting for resources has been a mainstay since man fought for food/land/etc since time began.

Fighting because someone drew a cartoon is braindead/ignorant/inbred and without merit.

If one is following a mindset that says kill/maim/destroy anyone that doesn't think like oneself then one is troubled indeed.

Fighting for respect has also been a mainstay...

Blah, you simply don't get it.

It's a cartoon and you know damn well it's not about respect it's about killing because they think they have a license.

A dern 007islamsaysso license.

I guess I don't get it then..

I wonder how the original cartoonists feel, knowing that people have died because of their joke?

Hopefully they won't let this stop them from making cartoons in the future. the moment you let these evil bastards effect your freedom, you've lost.

As idiotic, unnecessary, and poorly handled as the Iraq war has been, I find a comparison to bombing an embassy and killing because of a cartoon weak at best Jedd.

Respect? Give me a break. They don't want respect, they want terror, they want death to infidels, they want restriction of freedom and any thought that doesn't coincide with their misguided beliefs. Respect...please! :rolleyes:

I guess I don't get it then..

You've proven that quite a bit...but not always. I for one welcome your perspective...as much as I disagree at times.

I'll accept that perhaps my point is a bit weak in this argument, however history has shown that fighting in the name of religion is nothing new. Hello Crusades?

Actually, religion the root cause for many conflicts...maybe even most. Don't get me started on religion, but that wasn't your argument...you argued they were fighting for respect. I see no evidence of them fighting for respect. I mean how could any rational, thinking being respect someone killing innocents in the name of a religion that is, in it's fundamental teachings, peaceful.

I agree they are "fighting" for their misguided and evil interpretation of their religion...but they could care less about respect from the west and are losing respect from more moderate members of their own religion....at least I think that's the case, is it?

First thing that I thought of when I heard about this was the movie director murdered in the Netherlands (I forget his name, sorry) by a Muslim fanatic due to the director having a view other than the one preached by the extremist Imams in the daily prayers.

I do believe those cartoonists are agonizing over the consequence paid for their art, but hopefully they will not submit to this extortion and stifle their ability to share creative, diverse views of the world.

You are thinking of Theo Van Gough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)

You are thinking of Theo Van Gough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_%28film_director))

Yeppers. Thanks Sixee!