While I am all for freedom of expression, surely one could be open to the view that the publishers of these cartoons behaved a "little" irresponsibly.
Look at the world this past half decade, at the very least. The islamic world is at boiling point. The fundamentalists are looking for any reason to "spread the true faith", and these newspapers decide to insult, not only the fundamentalists, but the moderates as well. Of course things were gonna boil over into violence, or at the very least it could have been anticipated.
What upsets me though, and this can be said for any group, is that many have no problem causing grievious insult to another group, but will cry Blue Murder! when its done to them. And the Muslim peoples are just as guilty of this.
All in all, I think that people really overreacted to this incident, but surely, this overreaction had to have been expected.
So intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
- Pablo Neruda
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