Chris

Darn, you got in before my edit ... I changed it to 'Life of Halim' (random Arabic name) because of course the original film is not 'Life of Jesus'. It's about a poor Jewish bloke who is taken to be the messiah and can't convince the people otherwise no matter how hard he tries. Jesus actually gets a cameo in the film, he's in the background of one scene conducting the Sermon on the Mount. They don't satirise him directly though.

What they do do, however, is finish the film with Brian getting crucified and singing 'Always look on the bright side of life'. Although it's not Jesus' crucifixion, a great many Christians have been offended by this, believing it to be disrespectful of the very core of their faith. That didn't prevent any cinema screening it though (or any of the TV stations that have screened it since).

Now, we have a situation where a cartoon is satirising Mohammed, the very core of the faith of Islam, and it is argued that it is not to be published because it's offensive. Forgive me if I see double standards here.

By the way, anyone who hasn't seen the cartoon, you can get a good look by doing a Google image search for 'Danish mohammed cartoon'. It's currently the second result, with the heading 'Uriasposten'. I am not linking to it directly in case some lunatic decides to declare a fatwa on CF.