There isn't much reason to think that treating all aspects of islam with respect will ever fully appease the throngs of impoverished and desperate would be terrorists. The religion just provides muslims with a wide array of hot button items to focus their resentment.
It grates with my own values to provoke muslims or christians by deliberately being offensive toward their beliefs. That said, I refuse to actively pre-screen every thought and word on the off chance that someone, somewhere might take offense.
The "Draw Mohammed" event was sophomoric and puerile. I can tap into the pleasure of low humor but I'm not going to do it just to be offensive in a mean way. But I can appreciate most of Bill Maher's religious humor.
It grates with my own values to provoke muslims or christians by deliberately being offensive toward their beliefs. That said, I refuse to actively pre-screen every thought and word on the off chance that someone, somewhere might take offense.
The "Draw Mohammed" event was sophomoric and puerile. I can tap into the pleasure of low humor but I'm not going to do it just to be offensive in a mean way. But I can appreciate most of Bill Maher's religious humor.
