mojo-jojo

Hoping that Islam endorses human rights is like hoping that Microsoft makes Windows compatible with Linux.

Same here. I said some pretty stupid things about the Israelis. I was more focused on impressing others with my good intentions, rather than on what is actually happening down there.

Here is a story from Ibn Ishaq's "Sirat Rasul Allah" (the earliest of Mohammed's biographies). It is about a female poet called Asma bint Marwan who frequently made fun of the Prophet of Islam. One day she went a little too far: Eventhough the "Sirat Rasul Allah" is one of the oldest Islamic books the story is disputed by a few english-speaking Islamic scholars. They argue that one of the sources cited by the author (for reasons beyond my understanding) is unreliable. Others accept the book as historic fact.

What an incredible waste of talent! This might have been a really good game.

Actually the spokeman of the State Department said: So what he was really saying is that they support the right of newspapers to publish this stuff but they don't agree with the message of the cartoons. He was obviously talking about muslim violence being incited not violence against Moslems. These are two entirely seperate issues.