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Originally Posted by Pierre
No ones asking anyone to publish the cartoons on this site, it was only a link to another site.
How can anyone on here expect to have an informed opinion about it if they don't know what these drawings are.
Have you seen the drawings?? I'm sure you have. Do you find them offensive -I know you're not a muslim but I'm sure you have seen cartoons depicting Christ possibly rediculing him. Would you stop them from being published.
Are muslims offended by any depiction of Mohammed.
In fact I would welcome a muslim on this site to advise which cartoons they find offensive and advise why because I can't see it.
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Of course I've seen them ... I went googling days ago, when this first blew up. I posted above a search string that will reveal the cartoons. What we have to consider here is that this is a Cable user support forum, and is it worth the site getting DOSed by Islamist nut-cases for the sake of a cartoon that has nothing to do with the aims of the site. We may well decide it's no big risk at all.
I have no idea whether I'd find the cartoons offensive if I were a muslim, but I have seen stuff that offends me as a Christian, and some of it, if it were posted here, I would ask the team to remove as I would find it gratuitously offensive. Thankfully I think any of that sort of stuff falls outside the 'family friendly' policy of this site anyway so it's possibly not a good analogy.
I do pick and choose the websites/forums I visit though. It's easier to simply walk away than to start a fight you can't win. All the Islamists have achieved here is to give worldwide notoriety to something that few would ever have heard of otherwise.