[jon1856]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I guess what I'd like to see is reasoned response by moderate Muslims about how the scriptural quotes are also being "cherry-picked" by extremists and not just filmmakers when religious extremists encourage people to commit acts of violence or terror in the name of Islam.

But instead we get extremist interaction: some in the form of propaganda, some in the opposition to propaganda.

RACooper, the reference to Jack Chick might be a great analogy. I don't think I've ever seen a case in which the response to a Jack Chick cartoon, as offensive as they are to people who don't share his beliefs, was a suggestion to silence Jack Chick, particularly through the use of violence. As a Roman Catholic who finds his materials pretty, er, interesting, I react instead by wanting to explain how what Jack Chick said differed from actual RC teaching. As far as I know, this is the typical reaction.

Similarly, while propaganda presenting Christianity as a death cult might offend a lot of people, there'd be no global fear of widespread violence as a result of such a film and no UN officials would feel the need to make a statement about the film, I don't think. There is something fundamentally different about Islam in this regard.

So it seems to me the problem lies almost solely in the reaction to film and not the film itself.

Good posting; well thought out and written.