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For my part we are having a discussion, which you make harder by that huge chip on your shoulder.  Calling people "intellectually dishonest" is a poor way to engage in a reasonable dialog. 
When you say;Seems intellectually dishonest then since you obviously know I'm not blind.  Are you trying to call me stupid?  Maybe it's your approach, but you seem to be spoiling for a fight all the time.  Rather than try to have a discussion about protesting, boycottting, and acts of violence you resort to ad hominem attacks.

The analogy is that Muslims might get bent out of shape by a newspaper publishing a cartoon portraying their prophet in a bad light, just as Christians might get bent out of shape by a TV station running a show portraying their prophet in a bad light.  The similiarity is that fundamentalism and extremism in response to media disrespect are not isolated to one religion.  Seems like an analogy to me.  The response of the two groups might in general be different, but my point was that there are some extremist individuals in either religion who are willing to take a boycott, and protest to a higher level of violence.

I never implied that you said anything, I was disagreeing with your criticism.  You might be reading too much into my posts where I tend to try to draw specific things out to a broader perspective.  Talking about an isolated Danish incident is fruitless, but to have a discussion about the role of respect (for muslim beleifs in this case) in media and social discourse is more interesting to me. 

But, if you are still spoiling for a fight you can look elsewhere.
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You dont know what it means I guess. "Are you blind?" isnt intellectually dishonest. You now the readers never for a second supposed it was a real question.

You on the other hand presented your questions base as being a dervative of my comments - it wasnt.(and yes you really did imply that, your denials to the contrary.)






Its a shame to devolve so many discussions here into the elements of rhetoric, but its the only way to deal with subtley disengenous comments like you made there.