Seph22: I don't see the pressure that you speak off honestly, if you see the news there are always people who are not even religious who report being offended over something like TV ads or political statement against certain thing or race, Muslims are just like any other human when something is sensitive to them they speak their opinion and others are not obligated to listen of course, in CDP case they did something which i do find respectful to me and i said thanks that's all :)
Oddhermit: The pressure comes from the reputation Muslim extremists have given Muslims in general, and fear or repercussions from such Muslims. I'm not saying
all Muslims are violent extremists, although the religion is certainly supportive of violent behavior just like the other monotheistic religions, but I understand most ignore or dismiss those laws/verses. However, even if those extremists are a minority, they get noticed more than "moderate" Muslims.
I realize this particular thing likely wasn't at all the same sort of thing as the danish cartoonist incident that sparked this sensitivity and hostility toward Muslims, but you can understand why people now feel threatened when Muslims make similar demands after recent incidents can't you?
It's unfair to say Islam support violent and just to think it's similar to other religious books, i have read the Quran plenty of times and there is no violent in it (people who does say it does always quote the same 2 verses which seems violent but never show the verse before it and after it, it's basically Muslims being slaughtered 1400 years ago by an enemy that just hates them for not worshiping dolls which were gods at the time by some people and god is not giving them the right to fight back but then god gave the enemy a warning of 4 months to stop killing Muslims or face a fight by Muslims and that's it and what is mentioned in the book even then that fight did not take place because the mentioned enemy did surrender and they were not taking prisoners and was free )
i don't think CDP felt any pressure about a rug this and the danish cartoon are way different (the danish guy was basically saying the Muslims prophet is a terrorist and bomber in his paints) not even close to this case
Casual Muslim, Strict Muslim , modern Muslim, Practicing Muslim, none-practicing Muslim- extreme Muslim etc these are all names created by the west and unheard of in the Islamic world, we have a Muslim and none Muslim , what you call Extremist are terrorists that is unrelated to islam and hi-jackers and about every islamic country is fully supporting USA and europe in finding these terrorists since most of the victims who dies from those are Muslims themselves according to all statics reven from USA itself, you don't call the freak terrorist who bombed Oklahoma hospital in America a christian
Stoning women is in the bible not in the Quran yet people always stick every thing they can think of to Quran, the Quran is the most beautiful book if anyone actually read it instead of saying what none-muslims say about it, someone here said blood/rape/incest/beheading etc those are not mentioned in the quran too but does in the bible
I'm a Muslim by choice not force why would i follow a religion that is violent or against humanism? i have to live with the fact though that people will call me violent/terrorist/insult me for life i guess, if any other religion faced 5% of the attack against islam it wouldn't even last a decade yet islam is growing faster than growing of population worldwide this alone speaks volume.