No jokes, please, we're Muslim Puritans

[winterbadger]

Excellent piece in the WSJ; many thanks to redactrice for pointing it out to me.

Bonfire of the Pieties
Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion.

Comments

[principia.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of that whole kerfuffle over Robert Mapplethorpe's 'Piss Christ' from several years back... that certainly offended a lot of people, but no-one rioted or burned downed the Corcoran gallery.

The current series of events in the Mideast is reminding me of nothing so much as the Rodney King riots.

[winterbadger]

The current series of events in the Mideast is reminding me of nothing so much as the Rodney King riots.

Not really sure I see the connection.

[principia.livejournal.com]

We're talking about large bodies of poor, disenfranchised people. When the press has actually bothered to talk to the protestors (a la the BBC), it turns out that most of them are protesting over general issues of respect/quality-of-life and not necessarily the specific trigger to which the riots are attributed (offensive cartoons/Rodney King's beating).