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Never said you couldn't draw caricatures. Re-read. Caricature away to your hearts content. But ask yourself this - does it make you feel good to hurt 1.6 billion people? Why denigrate their beloved prophet when they are not denigrating yours? 
And...White supremacists express hatred for other racial groups. Doesn't mean all whites are supremacists, does it? A German singlehandedly led a killing spree on 6 mil Jews, but doesn't mean all Germans want to kill Jews. Don't get trapped into slippery slope thinking. [/quote]

How I feel about drawing caricatures of Mohammad is not the issue. The issue is that I should be free to do it, without fear of violence. And I should be able to do this anywhere, even in a majority Muslim country. The fact is, I can't. When the Charlie Hebdo attack occurred, none of the major news outlets in the US reprinted the cartoons in question. So even in the US, we are fearful of how Islamic religious beliefs may be applied to us non-believers, to the point that the news media censors themselves.

I never called all Muslims terrorists or extremist/fundamentalists. Re-read. The point is, whether Islam prescribes violence against non-believers as a mater of its core teaching is up to interpretation and debate. Whether white skin color makes that race superior, is not. There is sizable population of the Muslim population on both sides of the camp. There fore, it's not possible for one camp to just claim to be the right interpretation and discount the other side as "not acting in accordance with Islam", such as you've done. Well, you can do it, but I can point out that you are claiming from a position of bias. [/quote]

No, but what you essentially want me to contend is that violent opposition of caricatures is condoned by Islam. Whether white skin is superior is most certainly subject to interpretation and debate, else there would be no white supremacist groups in existence. It is subject to debate and interpretation by those who believe it. The same holds true for Muslim extremists.

Read this by Pew and tell me if even the majority of Muslims support violent extremism:
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-concerns-about-extremist-groups/

As for your demand to do as you please with no regard to who it hurts, I ask you - WHY? Does it make the world more peaceful? Why is your conscience unaffected by the deep hurt of over a billion people? Should anyone be permitted to publish in Vatican city a caricature of Mary or Jesus? How about a mockery of the virgin Mary's "immaculate conception" ? No practicing Muslim would publish such a thing. And the basis is not of censorship but rather deep respect. [/quote]

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