Did you know "satire" isn't in the dictionary?

I'm a peace-loving guy, which is easy since I have no cultural animosties at all. However, at the risk of inciting anger, I want to point something out:

A Danish newspaper published 12 artists' depictions of Muhammed, some of them satirical, as a supplement to an article about censorship and free-speech. This has caused considerable upset in the worldwide Islamic community. They don't want the figurehead of their religion represented as a man with a bomb in his turban or holding scary weapons. Islam is not all about violence (see islamdenouncesterrorism.com, for example). If you're a Muslim, and you're offended, what do you do?

Apparently you forget everything you ever knew about irony, then you take over an EU office with heavy artillery and threaten two countries' citizens with violence. That'll show 'em.

Then to top off the day, you go home and laugh it up with the violently anti-Semitic cartoons that are common in the Arab world.

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Some quotes by Muhammed, at least according to the internet:

"He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger"
"Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first"
"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr"