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.

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[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).