Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Murphy

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Raven

Bashing Christ is nothing new, now why don't we see more people taking shots at Mohammad and Allah? Why do people find it more acceptable to make fun of Jesus and the Christian faith but not the Islamic faith?

Why Raven? Because those same people (those who aggressively and ruthlessly go out of their way, rather than just disagreeing) realize their lives would be in danger (from the few, extremely radical violent sects outside of mainstream Islam) if they repeated that same high level of offense on such a public scale, which speaks volumes about how "courageous" they are to stand behind their beliefs, and brings up the question of how "strong" their convictions are. It inevitably, and immediately confronts them with the profound question, "Are you willing to die for your beliefs?"

Here's some examples of the hot water (and life-threatening situations) artists/cartoonists got into for visual depicting Muhammad in a bad light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depicti...ammad#Cartoons