On 18/02/2008, Prasad J <prasad59(a)gmail.com> wrote:
John Lee wrote:
> To a Muslim it is offensive to say Jesus is God.
It is offensive to
> view images of inappropriately clothed people. Muslims in Indonesia
> found the images in Playboy sufficiently offensive to riot over.
> Muslims in Malaysia frown on the usage of Muslim terminology in a
> non-Muslim context; the government has actually banned Malay-language
> Christian publications for using Malay words meaning "Allah",
"angel",
> etc. There are a lot of things people find offensive; there are a lot
> of things Muslims find offensive.
I think you need to remember that not all Muslims are
from the
Taliban, just as not all Christians are cross-burning Ku Klux
Klansmen. I studied in a Catholic school where several of our teachers
He's not speaking of some theoretical straw man, but of the actual
laws in his country.
- d.