Getting Enough Iron[y]

Let me see if I have this straight...

Muslims are objecting to cartoons depicting Mohammed and insinuating that they are violent by blowing up and destroying stuff?

Is that the gist of it? "You're saying we're violent assholes! Eat Molotov cocktail, heretic!"

There's no room in my spiritual approach for any god or religious figure who can't take a joke, much less a poorly-drawn French one. If any deity is such a wuss that a cartoon gets them bent out of shape, I'm going to be changing brands to something a little more robust. In the grand scheme of holy wars ("My god can beat up your god"), if my guy gets bent because he's sketched poorly, and the other guy can take a straight left to the jaw and laugh. . . I'm thinking the other guy has a real advantage.

If your faith wasn't so goddamned fragile, this sort of thing wouldn't bug you. If you're so fucking sure you're right, you'd be sitting back and laughing smugly, serene and secure in the knowledge that your "enemies" would burn in your version of hell for their transgressions. You wouldn't need to mete out divine vandalism like a Detroit street gang.

You never see any Lovecraftians throwing squid at the promulgators of "Hello, Cthulhu."

[eta: http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/264938.html?thread=4151274#t4151274]
[also eta: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/02/06/cartoon.protests/index.html?section=cnn_latest]

[QotD]

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-Herman Goering, at the Nuremberg trials