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It's disrepectful to imply that he's a prophet of violence, and if you don't stop, we'll get violent.

While the protesters in other nations have pretty much said that... "Don't offend us or we'll burn your embassy and behead your citizens," or threats to that effect, there's no indication that this guy in Philadelphia is saying that. He is protesting the cartoon.

I seem to recall Catholics protesting at an art gallery over some Christian blasphemy or other, and at movie theaters over movies that were insulting to Jesus Christ.

I don't see a problem with peaceful protest. I also perfectly understand Trudeau's comment: he does not wish to make cartoons that directly mock founders of major religions. It's his strip and he can put anything he pleases in it, and as he points out, the papers that run it can choose to or not to -- it's a free country.

Now, the day I find myself in agreement with Garry Trudeau and an imam is a jolly rare occasion, indeed. And a cynic could say that the imam would rather burn down the newspaper but hasn't enough followers yet, so he daren't say it. But let's just keep an eye on him and his crowd, and as long as they behave like Americans, which they are doing, we shall treat them as any other Americans and support their right to complain.

Let's judge American Muslims on what they do, as individuals, not on what Muslims in other countries are doing. You can think anything you like; it's only when you act on what you think that you have the possibility of committing a crime.

d.o.l.

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And a cynic could say that the imam would rather burn down the newspaper but hasn't enough followers yet, so he daren't say it.

mmm...after my last two years studying things islamic, that would be me. In some places in the USA where they have reached 'critical mass' they are loudly making the call to prayers 5 times a day over loud speakers. In some places in the USA where they have reached 'critical mass' they are demanding 'private' times at public pools so that their women can go swimming. If you think their increasing numbers in the USA intend to assimilate, you aren't paying attention IMO.