Recently, a handful of Danish newspapers published a political cartoon, containing the Prophet Mohammed wearing bombs in his turban. A Los Angeles Times commentary sums up the situation very well:

"THE PUBLICATION of 12 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has triggered a multinational crisis. Danish embassies have been burned in Damascus and Beirut, and five Afghans and one Somali have been killed by police in their home countries while protesting the cartoons. In Denmark, the cartoonists who drew the caricatures have gone into hiding. And it's not just Denmark that is feeling the pressure; all of Europe is on high alert."

The whole muslim world has been up in arms about this cartoon. To their beliefs, painting the face of the prophet or creating it in any form is blasphemy and is forbidden. However, when I read about all these protests, I thought to myself, do these people have anything better to do? Do they all march in the streets everyday? It seems like all they do is protest and march. Although, I know this is a micro-set of the muslim population, but the media microscope blows them out of proportion.

Even worse, these muslims have gone to lengths of burning embassies. Then I wonder, what IQ do these people have? All they seem to do is bitch and burn property when someone doesn't bow down to their code.

Immigration of muslims to many other European countries have sharply risen, but this new flow causes problems for those countries. Many of these immigrants don't want to merge with the new society, but want to change it to suit their needs. In effect, they want to move their country with them. Then they wonder why those countries shun them.

On this issue, I agree with LAT:

"The real issue is not that some of the cartoons portrayed Islam unflatteringly but that the prophet's image was drawn at all. While Muslims are prohibited from depicting Muhammad, and doing so is considered blasphemy, this prohibition should not apply to non-Muslims. Demanding that non-Muslims abide by such a religious edict is tantamount to ordering them to follow an Islamic halal diet or cover their women's hair. In a world with more than a dozen major religions, no faith can prescribe such behaviors to others."

"Ironically, it was a Jordanian newspaper that got it right last week when it published three of the cartoons under the headline: "What hurts Islam more: these cartoons or pictures of a hostage-taker slitting the throat of his victim before cameras, or a suicide bomber blowing up an Amman wedding party?"