May be humans have never actually been tolerent of one another, and if they have appeared to be so, only because they've kept their grievances to themselves. What's happening around the world right now, is just all those grievances coming out in open. Not that this is the first time for Muslims to do so, all so making them the most sensitive of peoples. But why? Why is Al-Jazeera allowed to broadcast beheadings and a European newspaper being slammed around the globe for showing some sense of humor? I don't see any Muslims protesting against Al-Jazeera for showing all those bloody tapes and tarnishing the image of their religion? Is it because they want their religion to be feared, just like they've been raised to fear God Almighty...

This brings me to something I came up with in the past: you have the right to freedom of speech until it offends somebody. Stupid, isn't it? I am not saying that the Danish Newspaper which started all this is any good. I have seen the cartoon (they're on the Mohammad Image Archive) and frankly they're don't seem like works of good cartoonists. So either no professional wanted to mess with the topic or Danes lack caricature skills. On the topic of drawing sacred figures... many in the Muslim world have been doing it for hundreds of years, especially the Turkish and Persians. So why starting rabbling now? You don't see the other half of the world going ape if an Arab cartoonist draws stereotypical Jews drinking blood out of innocent Arab children.

But really, these people need to grow up and accept reality. The world is not as big s it used to be; we live in a connected world where we interact with people from all corners of the world everyday. So, this would really be a nice time to become trully tolerant. Or else they'd have to pay a visit to the Death Camp of Tolerance.

Anyway, I'll end this entry on a sad (but funny) note, by MSNBC cartoonist Daryl Cagle: