I think it’s in the same ballpark, that is, the desecration of a religious symbol for a political statement or gain.

To be comparable I think it would need to be a Moslem doing the desecration. Also, I don’t think there is anything more offensive than defecation so it would need to be a defecation a defecation.

In this case it’s westerners desecrating their own religious symbols. It really is too bad that Islam never had their “Reformation” and “Enlightenment” so they could be about the business of desecrating their own symbols. They can produce “desecrators” such as Rushdie and even a Tariq Ali who, while not a desecrator, doesn’t have a lot of respect for religion, but the fundamentalists don’t take it very well. Both religions have their fundamentalists, it’s just that the Enlightenment knocked our fundamentalists down a peg or two.

I wonder how it is that the west hasn’t found the opportunity to produce a “piss Mohammad”. Allah knows that’s when the sh*t will hit the fan.

Anyway, got to run, South Park’s coming up. Maybe they will have some scat on tonight.

Is the reaction comparable? Give me a break, is this a joke?

I don’t think the reaction is comparable at all. What I am wondering is if the publication of this poster is comparable to the publication of the Mohammad cartoons.

It seems to me that the content here is not the same. This isn’t a political cartoon but punk poster. The cartoons were a political statement in and of themselves, made by the press. It seems to me that this poster is being commandeered for political purposes. I think Sigvardsson is trying to compare apples to oranges.

It could become comparable if a bunch of priests decide to do a tour of Christian communities in a couple of months with a photocopy of this poster and a photocopy of a French man dressed as a pig for an obscure festival emblazoned with the words ‘This is how the Swedish depict Jesus’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkari-Laban_dossier#Page_34.2C_Photocopy_of_picture_from_French_competition

Religious reactioism is what it is, but don’t forget that the Danish cartoons brouhaha was deliberately fomented – the publication of some of the cartoons in an Egyptian newspaper some time previous to the riots didn’t cause much of a reaction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy#Reprinting_in_other_newspapers

Dunno, but yer devil could use more roughage in his diet…

Sorry about the facetious comment before, since the subject is of course serious.

I think the Muslim/Christian point of comparison is a red herring. The reaction to the Danish publication is really a clash between modernity and an alternate modernity; or perhaps rather two postmodernities (with one continuing down the Enlightenment or humanist/secular path, and the other in what people are calling the “Islamist” movement. I doubt that it’s really about two faith communities such as Christians and Muslims. While “post-modern” and “Islamism” seem like a strange match, I think that there is a lot of room for questioning along those lines.

Here is an article (that I am not endorsing, mostly because I don’t like the style; just using as food for thought)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200210/ai_n9109288 ..

Isn’t childish and one-dimensional nose-thumbing at Christianity (in particular) a bit, well, boring and tiresome at this point?

Me? I’m an agnostic, and could care less about such displays of juvenile foolishness.

Oh, and gotta add, how “Christian” to threaten “the messenger” with a good ol’ fashioned THROAT CUTTING!