A Danish newspaper ran twelve cartoons depicting Muhammad and now there are protests going on all over the Middle East. Most of the cartoons are either unclear or neutral with the worst depicting the prophet with a bomb in his turban.
Newspapers in Norway, France, Germany, Italy, Spain along with other European countries have reprinted the cartoons supposedly to teach Muslims about freedom of speech. In return, Muslims have boycotted Danish goods and have asked for the Danish government to apologize or to punish the newspaper.
Over the weekend, the fury escalated. Muslim responded by burning embassy buildings in Syria and the Danish consulate in Beirut.
At first, I thought this was an overreaction by Muslims but the more I thought about them the more I realized that their was something wrong with printing them, something akin to racism but for a religion and that is something that no one is talking about.
Imagine that a newspaper prints offensive depictions of African-Americans. Most Americans would be oppose to that but why not when Muslims are being depicted essentially as terrorist?