Re: Wondering how the Prophet might have responded to the cartoons..
When other religions are attacked their followers are mad too. They don't like it either. I remember when I was about 13/14 years old. There was this bald female popmusician, she had a music clip in which a picture of the pope was being torn apart. Everybody got crazy and mad. It was on the tv news, in the news papers and even though she apologised and said no harm was meant, I think she wasn't allowed to sing anymore, or something like that, I can't remember the full story anymore.
Anyway, what I want to say is, that I'm tired of hearing that we Muslims are 'not openminded', or that we have 'no sense of humor' or that we are not 'tolerant' etc. etc. etc. while every normal person from any religion would not tolerate such intense mockery and insult of their religion. This is no innocent joke. Just an excuse to pick a fight with Muslims.
Unlike what happened to that bald female singer, she was banned from singing or something like that, Muslims have not demanded that those cartoonists should be banned from making cartoons, but we are just asking their apologies and that they should stop insulting our religion. There is nothing wrong with that.
Sinead O Conner is the name u r looking for.....Irish pop singer, she may have suffered christian fundamentalism but there were no death threats, she still sings and was in her time top of the charts.
As for 'just seeking an apology' is concerned, well the Danish newspaper has already printed an apology what else are they supposed to do? Hand over the cartoonists to a Muslim court? You do not have to be a genius to figure out that these cartoons were offensive to Muslim sensibilities, but the reaction of burning embassies, torching properties, vandalism, death threats? Does that not confirm the stereotype image projected by these cartoons?