nasty cartoons

[mrmod]

Vilks is an educated man from a civilized nation who disreguarded the very essence of what it means to be civilized. He chose to provoke, ridicule, and insult an entire group of people to make his point about a belief system that he disappoves of. Not only was this done in an uncivilized manner it was childish.
I certainly don't know Vilks, I've read a bit about this controversy ... that his works have been banned in other countries for fear of retaliation and yet he continued to push his work/art ... for what ... the right to Free Speech ... give me a break. I see Vilks as an attention grabber, a spoiled kid determined to get his way at all costs. Well I hope the price he is paying now is worth it to himself and his family.
If Vilks truely is concerned for the right to Free Speech perhaps he should have used a more dignified way to express himself.

Aren't we all childish sometimes? Vilks suffers from the same flaws as all of us. He was entitled to say/paint what he deemed fit, even if other people deemed offensive to the point of murder.

The difference is that the caricature did not kill anyone. Whereas the extremist would really like to (and have done to other people).

Plus, what would we do without comedy? The ability to be able to ridicule anything is good because it does away with any ideas of perfection and makes us smile and laugh.

You didn't have to find it funny. Hell, you could even say you didn't like it (free speech on your part) but as soon as anyone thought of hurting him you'd be breaking the laws of being civilised.

He did it because he could and that's admirable. Whether it was rude or not does not grant license to take someone's life. As I say, we've all been rude (I'm guessing even you, who's generally really polite ).