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Originally Posted by Scared WebWarrior
<snip>As someone has pointed out, the rules forbidding images of Muhammed/Allah apply to Muslims ONLY. Just like the customs and rules of other religions ONLY apply to them. So a Jew won't eat pork? More for us christians then.
That's the way a free society works. Live and let live.
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you make some very good points, however I must ask if, as an example, you had invited a friend for a meal, who happens to be Jewish, would you serve everyone else at the meal with pork, and give your Jewish guest something else, or would you be sensitive to his beliefs and serve everyone with a suitable compromise?
- in the same vein, while agreeing we are not bound by Muslim beliefs, that doesn't mean we shouldn't respect them, at least to the point where we avoid being insulting.
As I said before, I wasn't previously aware of the depth of feeling such imagery invokes, something we find difficult to understand in our culture, as we have been so used to the idea of cartoons as satirical social & political comment (Punch, Private Eye etc).