On 5/12/06, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Cyde brings up a very very good point. What your religion may perceive as "mocking" and "offensive", my religion, or Cyde's, may not. I'm sorry but I fail to see how this is different than the Muhammed Cartoons: the argument there is "omg it's blasphemous and disrespectful to show muhammed" and here it's "omg it's blashphemous and disrespectful to make a cross spin around".
It's extremely well known that any depiction of Mohammed is offensive. I've never heard of anyone specifically referring to cross spinning as offensive.
There are other differences: I don't believe the cartoons were originally meant to offend Muslims as the primary goal, and certainly their republication in places like Wikipedia wasn't. However I imagine that the whole incident with the Christian userbox was intended to annoy/offend/irritate its users, ie. Christians.
Steve