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Originally Posted by homealone
that is my point, though, previously I was unaware that a caricature of the prophet was so deeply insulting to the Islamic faith and probably wouldn't think twice about publishing it - but now I do know, then it would be wrong.
Imagine being with a bunch of people & someone makes a joke about a disability, then one of the group says 'my brother/sister etc has that' - would you continue to mock that minority, or should you say 'sorry mate, didn't realise, I didn't mean to offend' and not mention it again??
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Charicaturing Mohammed is wrong - if you are Muslim. If you aren't Muslim then you aren't bound by the same rules and laws.
With regards to your example, I wouldn't say that counts as criticism, its a joke at their expense. That vaguely does come under insults. The reason the cartoons were created wasn't a joke at Muslim's expense, it was proof that Islam is the only religion you can't even comment on, let alone criticise.
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Originally Posted by http://www.natashatynes.org/newswire/2006/01/danish_cartoons.html
He commissioned the cartoons after hearing that Danish artists were too scared to illustrate a children's book about the prophet.
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There are two valid criticisms. The first being terrorism's association with Islam (bomb in the turban), and second for overly dictatorial approach to how Islam is viewed by non-Muslims.
All criticism is insulting to a degree because when you criticise you are commenting on the least desireable parts of people (i.e. greed, or violence). That means we can't criticise anyone anymore?
Jokes at people's expense aside, freedom to criticise is a non-negoiatible part of freedom of speech.