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BBC NEWS Have Your Say Should 'anti-Islam' cartoons have been published?

I am aghast! What is this world coming to??? God it frustrates me (no pun intended)! Yes, i can understand that it was an insensitive act, printing a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad with a turban looking like a bomb. Yes, i can understand that it doesn't help put over an impression of a kind, peaceful, loving religion and therefore is misrepresentative... er, hang on, looking at the demonstrations in Central London, burning the Danish flag, stopping trade with Denmark, ransacking and burning diplomatic embassys in Damascus... well, how wrong was the cartoon???

I mean, what the fuck has it got to do with the government when it was an independent newspaper that printed it???

What the fuck has it got to do with the UK that leads to threatened reprisals when our INDEPENDENT newspapers have chosen NOT to print the cartoon?

I was thinking recently that the Americans were unreasonable to be bullying and bludgeoning Iran on its quest to refine nuclear power, but based on these crazy reactions of a few muslims i can see why they are so concerned - just out of interest, i believe we'll see a war with Iran occuring in the next 18 months, one which i hope the UK doesn't partake in.

I feel sorry for the majority of muslims worldwide who are slurred by this threatening, violence inducing, extremist reaction to something which otherwise would have not raised an eyebrow in the west. I mean, satirical, sarcastic (and evidently often correct) cartoons are printed everyday, they carry some humour factor, sometimes you agree with them, but mostly you pass your eye over it and move on. If they had chosen to take it up politically with the newspaper in question, there'd be much more respect with the way they're protesting and the average westerner might start to see muslims as peaceful, friendly, kind people...

I find it a real struggle to be a reasonable person and see it from both sides. Overall I think its pathetic, unjustified, unreasonable and just an excuse for violence by a minority of yobbish, uncultured, introverted idiots who do not want to add to a society, just break it down - and that's something i don't think any religion extols.