J&M on the money as usual. I do recall, when asked about the riots, torching of businesses and deaths, the first response of Arch Bishop of Canterbury at the time was to criticise the cartoons! His bias betrays a much deeper and problematic aspect of the religious mind in my view, namely, the temptation to elevate an "abstract idea" above the life and wellbeing of actual Human beings. It's a problem that our species has suffered from since our consciousness evolved, it's not solely grounded in religion either, a kind of solipsism in the extreme. It provokes a completely recognisable and infantile response, an inability to be happy until everyone else believes my idea too!
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