Will people stop defending this by saying that it was only satire, humour, jokes. Or by saying that the western media is free to draw whomsoever they will. There are thousands of images of the prophet found on the internet, you don't see anybody saying or doing nothing about them. Yet these latest caricatures are not alike those other thousands of images. Because this is villification, it is demonisation. It's clearly established in western psychology that you demonise a people long enough and sooner or later people will really start to believe it.
The prophet was potrayed as a terrorist and in another he was potrayed as a bigot! In times of an attack from various western nations upon Iraq you turn around and demonise the most revered figure in Islam. What a very arrogant scenario played out by western countries and this transaltes to me the whole 'master, slave' relationship that the west is trying to engineer out with the rest of the world.
'You do this, or that, becasue we say so'
'we will print them and villify respected people in your history and by default conjure up an increasing negative image of islam and we don't care about what you think'
Especially Germany has disapointed me. Don't they remember what this same villification and caricturing did to the jews. Many people feel very resentful towards muslims and caricturing the prophet who is held up as a beacon of good charachter (by muslims and non-muslims alike) to show him as no better than ignorant and violent is only going to reinforce their resilience in 'beating the Islamic threat'
This went beyond satire a long time ago, I see many satirical cartoons against Islam daily, you don't see uproar about them. And also, many western journalists are putting down all the demonstrations down to 'those people' not being able to understand liberal values, bullshit, like I said, it went beyond your innoncent liberal values a long time ago, into an arrogant and dangerous antagonistic move a long time ago.
(In the Middle East peole aren't very media savvy and educated, so they are only reacting to what would come natural to someone who isn't really up on 'media image'. Akin to black people rioting so stfu and stop picking out people and looking down on their reactions, like you western educated spoon fed brats always do. What if I always picked out 50 cent, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paris Hilton, George W Bush, some pornstar and another randomn ghetto thug or wigger to judge the western worlds view every single time? You'd be screaming ignorance! Well, for years western peole have been getting the views of the muslim versions of the same type of low life people and we have had to get on with things and try to defend our position as best we can. Yes it isn't right or 'media friendly' but if the educated people in the Middle east did something (which they aint) then you would be wishing for the gunmen running up and down the streets to come back, because it wouldn't be pretty for any of us.
You've done it to the Jews the Japanese in the second world war (anyone seen the bugs bunny cartoons, those sterotypes are still here today) and now it time to give it to the evil muslims.