[fanfan]

Without debating the relative percentages of each, I'm convinced there are both sincere Muslims & Islamofascists & we're foolish & short-sighted to deliberately offend the former to attack the latter.

LOL!
I won't flame you FRiend. :-D

It just seems to me that Muslims & Islamofascists that have moved here expect us to adhere to their preferences.

AFAIC, humor, ridicule, sarcasm, pictures of Mohammad and pictures of Piglet exist in our society, and they can just get over it.

[GMMAC]

Agree 100% while continuing to believe we're wrong to take glee in intentionally offending ALL Muslims for essentially the same reasons that I don't offer pork to Jews or coffee to Mormons etc. while, at the same time, fully expecting them not to spit on my Crucifix.

To me, all of the arguments favoring publication of these cartoons boil down to "two wrongs making a right" and/or complete disregard for "The Golden Rule".

Mark my words:
Many of the most vocal of the current "free speech" champions will be the same people whining the loudest when the msm quite soon employs this very principle to up the vehemence of its far more habitual attacks on practicing Christians & Jews.

All of this getting into bed with the morally bankrupt msm should rightly have a lot more "conservatives" - although doubtless not libertarians - scratching their heads ... if not other areas of their anatomies.