He wasn’t showing a depiction of Mohammed to be edgy or cause offence. He was doing it to teach a lesson about political and religious messaging. He was, you know, being a teacher.
It only seems to be Muslims that act like this. If I use “Jesus” as a swear word, or say that Jesus was not God incarnate, that’s deeply offensive to Christians. Would I get a mob of Christians sending me death threats, or would they just ignore me, think I’m a knob and get on with their day?
Besides, you can’t “cause offence”. Offence cannot be given, only taken. And what offends people differs everywhere. You can’t keep policing your language in case some nutter takes offence to it.
It’s really really ignorant to not know that was going to cause offence to Μuslims. The reason it was so well know is the riots it caused. So I think he knew he was going to cause offence.
And it’s not just Muslims, there are plenty of dangerously crazy christians (too much of the US!). I’d wonder if it was monotheism being fundamentalist, but then there crazy Hindus and Buddhists and everything else. I think it’s just humans. Especially in groups/mobs.
He wasn’t showing a depiction of Mohammed to be edgy or cause offence. He was doing it to teach a lesson about political and religious messaging. He was, you know, being a teacher.
It only seems to be Muslims that act like this. If I use “Jesus” as a swear word, or say that Jesus was not God incarnate, that’s deeply offensive to Christians. Would I get a mob of Christians sending me death threats, or would they just ignore me, think I’m a knob and get on with their day?
Besides, you can’t “cause offence”. Offence cannot be given, only taken. And what offends people differs everywhere. You can’t keep policing your language in case some nutter takes offence to it.
It’s really really ignorant to not know that was going to cause offence to Μuslims. The reason it was so well know is the riots it caused. So I think he knew he was going to cause offence.
And it’s not just Muslims, there are plenty of dangerously crazy christians (too much of the US!). I’d wonder if it was monotheism being fundamentalist, but then there crazy Hindus and Buddhists and everything else. I think it’s just humans. Especially in groups/mobs.