Amazing Muslims

The Muslim world never ceases to amaze me.  An obscure newspaper publishes cartoons that are considered offensive to Muslims, they portray Muslims as being violent, and months later Muslims around the world protest violently.  Terrorists in Iraq bomb mosques and the only protests are in Iraq.

I'm Christian and I'm offended more by the bombing of a mosque that I would be by a cartoon of Jesus with a bomb shaped turban. I believe Jesus would also be more offended by the bombing.  In fact, if all it took to stop the violence in The Middle East was a few cartoons poking fun at Jesus, Jesus would probably endorse them. I've never been crucified, but I've been made fun of.  I'm certain crucifixion is much much worse. 

I don't know enough about the teachings of Mohammad (please forgive my ignorance if I misspelled his name, my spell checker gave me three choices) to speak intelligently about him or his teachings. I do find it hard to believe that he would rather have his followers killed, in his name by another group of his followers, as they worshiped in a building dedicated to the religion he founded than see a cartoon poking fun at him than.

The radical Muslims really need to drop the "Let's kill everybody" philosophy if they expect the rest of the world to treat them as anything other than murdering terrorists. The biggest victims, aside from those harmed by the violence, are the normal Muslims who are as appalled by the violence as the rest of us.