If you makes you feel better to brandish me a 'hater' fair enough - If it in some way gives your point some meaning, so be it...
But you're missing the importance of the point I'm making. Being able to mock, deride, and even insult to some degree any token or symbol of importance or power is a VERY IMPORTANT freedom. Without that freedom we lose the ability to question and challenge matters.
Over the past ten years we've seen Islam complain a number of times when people have 'mocked' its religious figure heads. Should we stop people from doing this? Should people not be able to challenge Islam in this way? Or should Muslim instead learn to be more tollerant and accept this as the healthy thing it is?
I'll repeat my analogy from earlier in this thread. If a country's leader or party suggested no one in their country, or indeed any other country, was allowed to mock, question, deride them in any way (eg: drawing), do you think we should agree to this? Do you think this would be a healthy move?
It's of course ridiculous. For all time, points of power have been the brunt of mocking/humour, why should Mohammed be any different. I'm sure he's big enough to take it, and doesn't need silly humans to fight his battles for him.
It's time for Islam to chill out a bit and stop taking itself so seriously.
I agree with most of the points here. It is important to be able to mock important figures and topical issues, and indeed some within the Islamic Faith do need to stop taking it so seriously, but there is a line between mocking or making a satirical and topical statement using humour and using the same humour to just be plain insulting.
I can agree the difference is both subjective and subtle, but I though that we should be aware if it.