Are Muslims more easily offended than those of other religions...

...or is it just that the other religions know they can't get away with it anymore?

 

Muslims are human first, Muslim second.

Nobody likes to have their beliefs questioned. When it's done so in a threatening manner, you'll get a rise out of them.

So the answer is no.

Most of the nasty reputation Islam has is a product of a controlled media and a foreign policy agenda hostile to certain Islamic countries. Not so much the religion itself.


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I don't think so, I believe its that Muslims are more controlling. When Jews immigrate to the West, they don't expect Canada to take up Halakha, they Muslims however demand the West to bend-over-backwards for the backward dogma they should have died, at the very least, 400 years ago.

 

Well maybe. But most people do accept it as an inevitability of sharing the planet with, like, anyone.

Yeah, but define "threatening". If you don't define it, it's all relative, so a Muslim can be much more "threatened" than a Christian by basically the same thing, right? Just as one Christian can be threatened/offended by something that another Christian of the same denomination accepts as inevitable and/or reasonable criticism, gentle ribbing, social commentary, etc.

I'd like to hear more Muslims taking the piss out of Islam. To me, it's a sign of faith.

 

That's a comparatively recent thing though. A lot of countries that are ultra-observant weren't as little as 30 years ago. It's debatable whether that comes from freedom to practice religion or the reverse - loss of freedom not to practice - or something else entirely.

I do wonder though if other religions are just bitter that they didn't come up with enough kErAzY rules early on to impose on other people. Eating fish on a Friday vs. praying five times a day... no-one's going to give you time off work because you need to nip out and get some halibut "for religious purposes".

 

But Muslims do hate Paul McCartney. Actually threatening his life if he comes to Israel for a concert lol.

 

Exactly, good point.

 

I don't like him much either. He better die before Ringo.

 

Ringo will clearly be the last Beatle standing.:cheers2:

 

He had the least annoying post-Beatles career and got to play Frank Zappa in a movie. That's cooler than squinting and giving a thumbs up to a camera and marrying arseholes.

 

And Ringo was clearly the best vocalist of the bunch.

 

So are we any closer on this? I'm just rewatching some South Park and wondering whether anyone expects non-Muslims to respect Muslim beliefs in their own behaviour. If I do or say something relating to Muslims which would not be offensive if it was related to Christianity, say, would it be reasonable for someone to be offended by it? The obvious example would be depiction of Muhammed, but I'm sure there are others.

 

I don't know. Mohammed was the non-convert in the 600 a.d. era. The convert, I believe, was St. Augustine of Carthage.

St. Augustine was thereby the right guy. Mohammed was the left guy.

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