An Open Message to All of Islam

I hope you all take this in the spirit that it is meant. But if you don't, well, that's okay too, because I'm just about fed up with Islam anyhow. But if I haven't lost you already, imagine this scenario:

A picture is printed in a newspaper... a cartoon suggesting that a particular religion - or some perverted version of it - is responsible for at least some small degree of conflict in this world. Now, this religion is practiced by millions and millions of folks around the world, mostly peacefully. But it is also the center of a a social, intellectual, and physical culture clash so pervasive, so deeply ingrained, that certain members of this religion feel justified in killing those who don't agree with them.

I don't know what your dictionary says, but LePensure's says that when someone places and idea or concept ahead of a real, live, human being, that person is a fanatic. And I don't like fanatics - 'you catch my drift? So if this cartoon is aimed at a fanatical fringe of the religion, wouldn't the logical thing for mainstream practitioners to do be to distance themselves from the despicable actions of these fanatics? To tear up the air waves apologizing for a situation where some cartoonist would would even think he could suggest a link between the religion and violence? After all, if there were no perceived link between the two, no one would have even understood the cartoon in the first place.

Oh, you say it's not the cartoon? It's the fact that it depicts the Prophet of Peace, and the religion doesn't allow such depictions? Well, to that I say, put your newspaper down, log off the web, and turn off your TV. DON'T LOOK AT IT! It doesn't offend me, and if I end up going to hell for looking at a picture of your Prince, well, that's pretty much my tough luck, huh?? But where in the hell do you get off telling me what I can and can't do, in my own country? In fact, I wish that I were Danish, just so I could spit at you.

I searched the web for the cartoon, just so I could post it. But I gave up - it wasn't worth the effort. Such a pathetic god you have.