Do you think it's okay to offend hundreds of millions of people in the name of satire, just for the sake of doing so?
I personally don't think so, and I was pretty mad during the abovementioned controversy. I believe it in inexcusable to mock something so many people find precious and sacred. It was also a pretty stupid move by the newspaper. They must have known that the cartoons would create a big reaction in the Middle East.
Nothing is sacred.
If we stop doing things or saying things just because they offend people, we will have no freedom in the end.
You find it offensive that someone would draw a bomb on that evil fucking piece of shit Muhammad's head, and equally offensive that I would call that worthless shitfuck both an evil fucking piece of shit and a worthless shitfuck, so what happens to the cartoonist and I?
Kill us both or throw us in jail for a couple of years. That's justified, isn't it? We offended people, we deserve to lose our lives or lose days/weeks/months/years of our lives. Because, after all, offending people is evil.
Fuck being PC and fuck relativism. Political correctness is fucking the world and relativism has fucked us. Political correctness is killing creativity and the human spirit, and the view that any way can be the right one has made a world in which people live in alternative realities. (I will cite, as an example: holocaust denial.)
I tell you what makes me
CRAZY MAD about the entire thing: the protesters were the ones people sided with.
That is the bullshit.
BECAUSE OF A FUCKING DRAWING, THESE PEOPLE RIOTED, BURNED SHIT, STOLE SHIT, AND KILLED OTHER PEOPLE.
If you're offended at the cartoon instead of that, you're retarded.
Oh, and...