Was the Muslim reaction to the Danish Cartoons “natural”?

The fact that the west allows people to make fun of the Christian's God doesn't make it acceptable for them to make fun of other people's religions. Muslims unlike other religion followers rarely attack or disrespect other holy religions despite all their major flaws. Islam is the only religion beside Christianity that has great respect to Jesus and the Christian religion. As far as the Muslim's reaction, Islam is a religion that has existed for the last 1500 years and Muslims never drew pictures of their prophet for many reasons, one of them is not to make the prophet a godly figure like what Christians made of Jesus. So for someone not only to put Muhammad in a picture but also disrespect him as a violent character... that is unacceptable. People react in different ways and Muslim countries are not in a position to defend their religion and prophet politically or in any other way. So while unfortunate, the Muslims of the world were making a point not only to the west but to their own rulers. As far as why Muslim countries are not as developed as the western world, these religions have been in existence for thousands of years not only a hundred or two. The Islamic empire was the superpower and the Mecca of knowledge, sciences, philosophy, and much more. People from all over the world traveled to learn in the Muslim countries. Yes after more than a thousand years life changed and Europe woke up from it's dark ignorant ages. If you study the history of the middle east after the World Wars, you'll notice that the Muslim world was divided into small and poor nations and were faced with many hidden problems. Arab countries were forced to spend most of their wealth on buying weapons to use in stupid wars that were not their fault. Arab countries have border problems between each other like Iraq and Kuwait, Algeria and Morocco, Syria and Lebanon, Pakistan and Kashmir and many more. These border problems caused problems for the Muslim countries for the past 100 years. Last but not least, most of the Muslim governments were not elected by the people, an example is the royal family in Saudi, Kuwait, Morocco, and the old Shah of Iran. These governments are unqualified for the job and do not put their people and countries as a priority. And as you should know from Europe's past experiences, when the government is corrupt, the country would never develop. Disrespecting people is not constructive criticism, the cartoons were meant to insult Muslims, the prophet, and their religion. If Christians accepted the insults of Jesus, Muslims will never accept that. At least when Muslims were the superpower of the world, not only Muhammad but Jesus and Moses were never insulted. In addition, when you talk about Muslims not taking criticism... Why don't you see any "criticizing" of Jews or homosexuals. Is there any newspaper that dares to publish an insulting cartoon of Jews or homosexuals? But when it comes to Islam, a holy religion that is not insulting others... it's freedom of speech and when Muslim's react in the only way they can react cause their governments are useless, they're labeled as violent people.

TRUE! I Agree and you made a good point. Muslim's are wussy people and a wussy religon. Hopefully we can eliminate their religon eventually which I am sure will happen anyway as people will see right through it like yourself. Cheers!

u WERE NOT NEVER TRUE TO SAY"TELL ME IF i am MISTAKEN"

hey!!!!! u asking all the quests related to my e-mail......huhhhhhh Freedom to speech.....by insulting people's belief? if thats called freedom to speech then even Muslims can have freeedom to show their reactions....

Yes, it was natural. Because the cartoons were not freedom of expression. A PERSON'S FREEDOM ENDS WHERE THE OTHERS FREEDOM STARTS . You are free to do anything within your fence, but if you throw a ball at your neighbors house and say that your are free to do so.then you will definitely get your neighbor mad at you..right? What if the Muslims made cartoons about Jesus? or Mary? It is very sad that the Christians and Jews themselves had made drawings and stories about their prophets in many positions. What about the Holocaust? Muslim know very well that was a big lie but no Muslim has ever made a funny cartoon about it! and when they do say it is a lie people get angry WHY? don't Muslims also have the freedom of expression

Violence is always extreme; but if you had such a disrespectful parody of John Paul II, you would have a similar reaction in Italy, Brazil, USA, and a lot of other Catholic strongholds. It's so easy to label someone else beliefs crazy and outlandish, but how would you feel in the sane set of circumstances.

The Reaction was NATURAL , but the demonstration was over than what it was supposed to be, How ? and why we r not like the Christians and Jews ? Well , simply because we are religious and to be a Muslim means that u love Allah and Mohamed More than any other body in the world, so when u come and insult the Person who is loved from 1.2 billion people DONT expect that we are just going to be silent , U don't like that we demonstrated and stopped buying the danish products? why ? it's our full right to show our anger against those cartoon , and PEACEFULLY we Stopped buying their products to make them know what they did for us, Those who were killed , that was in few countries and because of bad organizing of some demonstrations, we didn't attack any country or made any terrorist actions upon them. Some thing to know Mr, as long as u make this cartoon Ur avatar , then all what u say would express 1 Thing : HATRED.

We respect and believe in all prophets ...we also believe in jesus and highly respect him but these cartoons were way beyond freedon of speech they were disrespectful..and i hope they burn in hell for these cartoons...