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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether Quran says anything about it or not, why mock something that holds such significance for people? What's the point? Just cause you can?

Same goes for any other religion. Religious convictions are a very emotional subject. Why stir the pot? Just let others be.[/quote]

With all due respect, religious people of all stripes routinely discriminate against the non-religious and work the political system to their favor against the interests of the non-religious.  This is the opposite of "letting others be.". Live and let live includes tolerating the speech of those who disagree with you.  Tolerating does not mean embracing, it means accepting the existence of opposing views and the rights of those who hold them to express them. I say this as a practicing Christian who frankly could not care less what others believe.[/quote]
Well, let the law take care of those pesky people. Insults are not speech. I say this as a not religious non-practicing person who doesn't care about others' beliefs either. Doesn't mean I think it's acceptible to intentionally provoke violence.[/quote]

Insulting speech is not illegal, and never should be.  What is insulting is not something that can be objectively defined.[/quote]

These are two different questions. 
1. Is it OK to publish offensive cartoons, or should the law equate these with hate speech and ban them? This is not what OP is asking and there are other threads about this specific issue.
2. Does Islam promote a certain type of response to offensive cartoons? Given that the offensive cartoons are out there. This is OP's question.

OP is basically asking, is there something in Islam that promotes, or could be read by a fanatic to promote, a certain type if response? Why didn't the terrorists instead, I dunno, make their point by holding a public bonfire of the offending issues, why did they go straight for blood? Also, why didn't they pursue their grievances through the courts or by lobbying for stronger anti-hate speech laws, but instead they took matters into their own hands?

Muslima's interpretation is that there is nothing in blasphemy laws that calls for bloodshed. But if you are an Islamist who takes every word of the Quran literally, you might read the passages above differently, and conclude that you were acting in line with Islam. Muslima's racing (which I like) is by no means the only possible reading.[/quote]

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