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The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) enjoys volleyball. Please do not cut into His volleyball time.
Seriously, folks. Admittedly, some of the 'toons were blatantly offensive (bomb-turban Mohammed, especially) and no one with reason should be saying that the Muslim world doesn't have the right to be offended. But trade sanctions? Burning embassies? Get a sense of perspective, people!
Additionally, shame on the Vatican and a good deal of Europe for saying that free speech does not allow making religion the butt of jokes. There goes Dogma and a good deal of comics that use Jesus as a character. Yes, freedom of speech does grant the "right" to charicature God. It also grants the "right" that people who disagree can do so in strong terms, or just not pay attention to the infidels trying to rile them up. God, Jehovah, YHWH, Allah, the entire pantheon of Hinduism, are big guys and I figure He/She/They/It can take care of Himself/Herself/Themselves/Itself. Your job, as believers, is to believe and support your beliefs through leading by example, not by killing people in the name of a god which does Its damndest to tell you thickheaded morons that maybe it'd be a good idea to be nice to other people once in a while.
Just because someone says something that offends you doesn't mean you have to go destroying things or calling for government action. You're a free moral agent; go out and stoically resist. Or complain, or bitch, or whine; that's fine. That is how you get "revenge" on cartoons, by making counterstatements or by modifying your own lifestyle. Not by setting fire in embassies, threatening peoples' lives, and generally making it very, very hard when your more enlightened religious leaders try to argue that your religion is one of peace.
Finally, stop expecting other people to play by your religious rules. People eat bacon, and I don't see anyone setting fire to buildings over that. If all religious rules in all the faiths in all the world were to be followed on threat of death, I bet you that the world would get mighty lonely and fast. You don't believe the Prophet should be drawn? Then don't draw 'im and try to avoid it when other people do. Trying to enforce religious blasphemy as a crime has no place in any society save a self-admitted theocracy.
Really. Proportional response. Racism and religious 'disagreement' (or bigotry, if you like loaded words) are here to stay, people--religious and racist violence, on the other hand, need not be.
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