[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Blasphemy

[Stephen Hodge]

Joy Vriens wrote:

>  a rough way to say that their religion is manipulated by some for
>  political reasons (e.g. the Syrian government is being accused of
>  organizing some of the riots).
Actually, in my opinion the 12 Danish cartoons were fairly innocuous and not 
even very funny.  But nobody here seems to have picked up on the fact that a 
group of Denmark-based inams took a portfolio of 15 cartoons to the Middle 
East.  The extra three cartoons are much more inflammatory and it is has 
been suggested that it was actually these that initially triggered the ME 
response.  Now why would these imans have, presumably knowingly, taken the 
extra three cartoons with them ?

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge