Muslims worldwide react to the Danish newspaper cartoon

So a Danish newspaper publishes a series of cartoons portraying the prophet Mohammed and muslims in general as terrorist boobs. The editor ran the cartoons intentionally to make the point that he can because he lives in a free society. He intentionally wanted to start a ruckus to prove the point that many muslims are as intolerant of the societies they wish to destroy because they find them intolerant of their culture.

The predictable response occured in Islamoland and in Islamic communities in Europe: riots, Danish flags being burned in the streets, tourists threatened, etc. The Danes, as a government, stand by the freedom of the press and don't bow to the ridiculous demands to apologize. In Norway and France, the cartoons are republished along with some new ones, including one where figures from all the major religions are lampooned at once under the headline: "Yes, we have the right to caricature God." Next thing you know the EU office (I have no idea what that means) in Gaza is surrounded by assholes with AKs and masks shutting down the building and writing "closed until an apology is sent to Muslims." The building at the time, and normally, is staffed mostly by Palestinians. The douchebags with guns then left a vague threat that unless apologies were issued by the offending nations in 48 hours, something was going to happen.

I'll tell you what will happen if no apology is issued, the right of free people will be preserved and the retrogression inherent in this element of Islamic society will take another giant step backwards to the dark ages. An elected official in the Hamas party in Palestine had this to say: "No one can say a bad word about our prophet." Oh yeah, Fuck him (sorry, 'Him') and the camel he rode in on. He's your prophet, not mine. Besides, if he really is (was?) a prophet of an all powerful god, he'll get over it.

Oops, Did I just intentionally badmouth a mesenger of God? Yup. Did I mean it? Not really, but then again it would take faith for it to mean anything. Is it my right as a citizen of a nation that, despite its problems has a hell of a lot more going for it than one that is recently been taken over by known criminals? Betchyerass it is.

Who do you think is the better for it, me or the woman whose government's primary goal is the elimination of it's neighbors while nearly half the population is unemployed? I say if Muslims want to get upset about the blasphemy, get upset about the very same people who are threatening to attack innocent civilians of other nations because of what was printed in a newspaper. Get upset about the blasphemers who kill innocents in the name of allah. Get upset over the distortion of the koran that fuel the hatred and self punishing policies of nations that, in the name of their sacred faith have policies aimed at the destruction of other peoples. Get upset over the fact that the more you get upset over this meaningless bullshit, the further you get from the holy message, the good works and side of your faith that cringes in embarrasment whenever crap like this occurs.

Imagine if the Islamic world noticed the cartoons and ignored it. Whatever malice and so called blasphemy existed behind them would be negated by proving them irrelevant.

UPDATE: I hadn't noticed the unusual timing of the protests vs. the release of the cartoons, for commentary on that see this.