Put all religions worldwide on notice.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If I may I disagree. They're not mutually exclusive.

A good barometer on the tolerance shown to others by religious organisations is their reaction to blasphemy and specifically the people (be they individuals or groups) doing the blaspheming.

A lot of religions desire a world in which scrutiny of their affairs is limited to those who have the power to affect them. By making light of this desire (perhaps through blasphemy), one is effectively scrutinising and critiquing it at the same time.

There's pretty much always a polite way of putting exactly the same argument.

Couldn't help but notice there wasn't a rebuttal in your response.

I'll post it another way, then. Just because a religious person doesn't want someone blaspheming/insulting their religion and their beliefs, it doesn't automatically mean it is thus 'wrong', or indeed not a form of critique and scrutiny.

As above, religious organisations excel on forwarding esoteric structures and language, creating a barrier between those that believe and those that don't. A very good way of demolishing this barrier is making light of it; ridiculing and criticising till people on both sides of it can laugh about it.

If this is not a barometer of the level of scrutiny a religious organisation will accept, then what is it, in your mind?