It's not even like the cartoon was massively offensive either. Crazy.

If only someone had put one of these images on the Westboro Baptist Church's website instead..

What's scary is that they aren't even being outcast by everyone. I realize some Muslims denounce their actions. But where's the rest of em? 25% of the world population is Muslim. Why is there not 1.75 billion people standing up and saying "stop it"?

I wonder if the extremists realise they are actually alienating the rest of the world and they will cause WW3

Why should they? What does this have to do with them?

Well I'm ready to nuke brown countries, from orbit, sure I'm sure.

Well they do share the same base religion, even though they obviously have a few different views. Just like non-violent blacks should stand up against black on black crime. Football fans should denounce fanatic rioters. Somalis should reject pirates. Peaceful Muslims are obligated by association...

Well they do share the same base religion, even though they obviously have a few different views. Just like non-violent blacks should stand up against black on black crime. Football fans should denounce fanatic rioters. Somalis should reject pirates. Peaceful Muslims are obligated by association...

No, no, no, you've got it so wrong, man.

Why would non-violent blacks stand up against black on black crime? Why? Because they're black? Where is the connection?

I don't represent the slightly balding, salty short person demographic, and no slightly balding short person represents me. You don't have the right to denounce anyones actions just because they appear to have similar traits to you.

You say 25% of the world's population is Muslim. How many of those Muslims have access to mainstream western media? It'll be a monitory, I promise you. You are looking at this from an insular, western perspective, and it's a privileged perspective that few in this world get to take. Them denouncing it is basedon too many factors for you to judge fairly. If they aren't denouncing it, is it because they don't care, or because they don't know about it? Who are the spokespeople for 2 billion people? Would the western media, who have an Islamophobic ideology, give airtime to a demographic that doesn't galvanise their propaganda?

The very fact that something like this is newsworthy is what tells you that the rest of the muslim world denounce it. It's 3 people out of 2 billion who committed this crime, if we use your logic of lumping them together based on the fact that they share cultural similarities.

Nothing about this story requires input from any other culture, nationality, creed, race, group or club. It's the actions of three lunatics who came together in a perfect storm.

Of course all of humanity should denounce their actions. But if these "lunatics" are going to listen and reason with anyone, it's going to be someone of their own religion. No one else has a chance of getting through to them...

i hate to derail the thread away from this inspiring discussion about how culpable every Muslim in the world is for the actions of three murderers, but isn't it about time we started standing up for free speech when it isn't being taken away with AK rounds? like, for example, when it's taken away with various hate speech laws or at the behest of a Twittermob of self-appointed offencerati, as it is being on an almost weekly basis - even in the United States (see: campus censorship)?

did you know for instance that Charlie Hebdo were once sued under such hate speech laws? (they won, but the fact that France - and other European countries - has the means to silence people without resorting to riddling them with bullets does put all this #jesuischarlie, vigil-holding, minute-silence-observing stuff into perspective)

Frankie Boyle ‏@frankieboyle 4h4 hours ago

I'm reading a defence of free speech in a paper that tried to have me arrested and charged with obscenity for making a joke about the Queen

Of course all of humanity should denounce their actions. But if these "lunatics" are going to listen and reason with anyone, it's going to be someone of their own religion. No one else has a chance of getting through to them...

Despite all medical efforts, a pregnant Muslim woman who was attacked by two Islamophobic men in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Thursday suffered a miscarriage and lost her baby, her lawyer said on Tuesday.

The 21-year-old Muslim woman, who was four months pregnant, was physically attacked by two men. The attackers first tried taking her headscarf off and later cut off her hair and tore part of her clothing. After she screamed out that she was pregnant, one of the attackers started kicking her in the stomach.

Someone whispered in their ear and made them believe murder was the answer. So it's not completely unheard of to think someone could stop them by reason. It's worth a shot isn't it? If it only saves one life, is it worth a shot to stand up and denounce?

Here is something to make you all feel better...