Via ComputerWorld:
"The furor over a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed is being felt on the Internet, where hackers have struck down and defaced hundreds of Danish Web sites over the past week, according to a Web site that tracks digital attacks.Wikipedia has a really good article about the Muhammed cartoons with pictures of the offensive comics; as well, the "controversy" (such as it is) is also impacting travel in southeast Asia (Greg Cruey has a good article about that at Islamic Protests Create Uncertainty for Travelers). You can also read more about the defaced websites at the Zone-H.org.Approximately 800 Danish Web sites have been hacked since the end of January, when reaction to the cartoons began to receive widespread media attention."
Maybe I'm being naive here, but if the cartoons are lampooning destructive behavior that is the bane of the Islamic world, and the protestors are destroying and killing left and right, aren't they kind of, you know, proving that caricature right? Maybe that's just me. But that's a lot of websites hacked for a comic strip.
Related: Toothpaste for Dinner is a great comic strip site - all the funny without the awkward protesting.
No I don’t think ur reaction is just you, but simply just. Those violent reactions are meant to make us bow down to an archaic religious view of the world. If we ever did we would lose most of our freedoms for which we fought in WW2
I agree with your reaction too. There is no call for violence.
If you don’t like the cartoons, you can choose not to look at them.
If you think a few cartoons can insult your religion, perhaps you should reexamine your faith rather than try to kill those who don’t share your faith to begin with.
But I guess it’s too much to expect such logic from fundamentalists – Islamic, Christian, Hindu or any other.
If they had any sense, they would be expending this energy protesting against the concentration camp-style prisons that the US is currently operating in the name of freedom and liberty.
To comment on the above comment – it’s a myth that WW2 was fought to preserve freedoms – preserve only ’some’ freedoms, I would say – at the time the Allies were making large-hearted (hypocritical) proclamations in the Atlanta Charter, most of Asia and Africa were under colonial rule and the Allies had no intention of allowing freedom in these parts.