Strong Muslim outrage over satire related to their religion cannot be justified.

"No holy book will tell you whether you should riot over abuse of your religion, god and prophet." This is my point exactly. It is all down to the individual or denomination in this case. I'm glad we can agree on that. "If they have great faith in their religion, then the natural reaction to any bad or falsified depiction of their god and prophet is obviously going to be unpleasant." Are you saying that Christians or Jews, for example, don't have great faith in their religion and that's why they DON'T cause such strong outrage? Christianity and Judaism requires just as much faith as Islam so it cannot be that Christians or Jews have a lesser faith in their religion than Islamic people do. With this in mind, you don't see such a strong reaction from these religions when it comes to satire so therefore the natural reaction is NOT obviously going to be unpleasant. Why are Muslims so special in this that they feel the need to cause mayhem over something which every religion receives (or person for that matter) especially when other religions can take it remarkably well. There is no logical reason as to why Muslims should deserve special treatment from petty satirical jokes over everybody else. You argue that "If the holy book states that followers of the religion must not depict the relative god in any way shape or form, then it is very natural that someone believes in such values to feel offended and react in whatever way pleases him/her." This is not necessarily true at all. The idea of blasphemy is a common condemnation in every religion. Most world religions that I know condemn blasphemy in their texts which is the exact same principle. Therefore it is not very natural for someone who believes in such values to react in whatever way pleases them because Christians (example) don't do this, yet condemnation of blasphemy occurs in the bible a lot (http://skepticsannotatedbible.com...) Remember I am just using Christianity as an example of comparison. So we arrive at the platform that the religions are all equal when it comes to receiving satire which makes it hard to try and justify the strong Muslim reaction compared to everyone else's. I apologize for my hazy knowledge of the Qur'an but it just so happens that whether Jesus is a prophet or not in Islam, it is totally irrelevant to the topic on hand. We are not debating "Jesus in Islam". I understand that individuals react in different ways to different things but in actual fact we are not dealing with individuals per say here, we are dealing with the general denomination's view. The idea of Individuals is too narrow here. If we talk about a Muslim's individual reaction to satire then it can be argued both ways that not all individuals are offended but at the same time there are individuals who are offended. We are dealing with Muslims as a whole here and the general Muslim reaction to satire is usually one of strong outrage. The supposed justification that people react differently to certain things doesn't work here for two reasons: 1) Every religion is receiving the same thing (satire) so it cannot be justified for Muslims to cause mayhem over something in which everyone else receives and especially when other religions don't. (2) With this equality of treatment of religions in mind, Muslims undoubtedly react much stronger than other religions when it comes to satire. And this is the Muslim group as a whole, not as individual people. Basically, Individual people can react differently to certain things but when we are talking about denominations it is not just by chance that the majority react in a strong way. There has to be a reason behind this and as I have refuted the reasons you suggest, the only reason I can come up with is the Muslim desire for special treatment as opposed to everyone else who can just let petty, insignificant satire be just that. Again there is no special right that allows Muslims not to get their feelings hurt unlike the rest of us.