Strijkbout: Let me get this straight, you think it is okay to ridicule an entire religion ...
Lifthrasil: Yes.
No 'because' or anything. No need for reasons. Everybody has the right to follow any religion (as long as it doesn't call to harm others). But everybody else has the right to find any religion ridiculous. It is entirely OK to make fun of the pope. There are tons of jokes about Jesus or god. There are jokes about Buddha, Confucius and any other figure well known enough to be a target. There are jokes about atheists, cristians (especially nuns and priests), jews, mormons, whatever. Why should Mohammed be any different? Equal rights to everybody. There are tons of cartoons in newspapers about all kinds of public figures and about all ideologies.
Why should Islam get a special treatment? Whoever demands that his faith should be 'protected' before all others, obviously feels that his faith is in need of that protection - i.e. that it is a fragile thing. Whoever is secure in his own beliefs, stands above the jokes of some ignorant jesters. You can make all the jokes you like about agnostic physicists and I won't feel offended. Hell, I make jokes about physicists myself! Only those who are either insecure or those who know that they are in the wrong, try to forbid criticism.
awalterj: Yes it's ok to ridicule an entire religion, without limits. Why on Earth would any sane person think religion should be exempt from ridicule? How big or small the rogue element is in any religion is irrelevant in that regard.
These aren't jokes, these are statements of hate and to top it off it is unnessecary. You can abuse the docile cat for only so long until it starts to put out its nails, if you want more terrorism this is what it needs. So please convict the people who make this shit together with the terrorists next time they attack, because other people have to die because they want to be funny and everything put aside it isn't even that funny.
Free speech isn't much different from religion really, it's something people believe in, bullets coming out of the businessend of a Kalashnikov on the other hand, now that is cold hard science.
Action equals reaction.