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

Onto your points, firstly. You say that Muslims take offence easily to images related to their religion because their prophet and God should not be made into icons, however the very same happens to other religions. It is not just Muslims that are isolated out and solely made fun of. It happens to all leading religions, celebrities, politics etc. How is a cartoon Muhammad more offensive than a cartoon Jesus? The answer is it isn't. Both religions have similar principles and faith so why should one feel the need to cause such strong outrage over the other. Why can't Muslims, like Christians or Jews just know themselves that satire is satire and just shrug it off. After all you would think that because their faith is strong, they wouldn't care what anyone else thought. I get offended by all sorts of things but I don't feel the need to riot on the streets over it. Such reckless behaviour puts other people's lives in harm's way and how can you say that such strong outrage over petty, insignificant jokes which we all receive can be justified, especially when people are at risk. You say that in the Western world we ignore the feelings and culture of others so we will provoke Muslims with the intention of insulting their religion. Again you make it seem as if Muslims are solely picked upon. Such jokes are delivered towards hundreds of denominations of people from religions to politicians to celebrities to teenagers to old people etc. Satirical jokes will always exist in the world and every type of person will receive them. It's just that most groups are good sports about it. You say that you support the right to freedom of religion, as do I, however the right to freedom of religion means that anyone can manifest religion in teaching, practice, worship etc. Nowhere does it say that a religion has the right to cause strong outrage and rioting when they get their feelings hurt. I also support the right to free speech which principles allows such satire to exist. "If you draw a picture in a newspaper depicting the Muslim Prophet, you insult 1.2billion Muslims across the globe; what else do you suppose you gain? Your newspaper might get banned, you may lose readers and you really just miss out overall. The only thing you've 'succeeded' to do is to offend Islam." Interesting point as this would indeed undoubtedly happen. However the fact that this would happen is an absolute joke. The only reason that people would ban a newspaper over this is if they were scared. The head of the newspaper organization or whoever, most likely wouldn't find the image offensive at all or see a problem with it (supposing he wasn't Muslim). Yet he would ban it because his reputation would be on the line. When people go about banning a certain thing for offensive reasons it's most likely because they are running scared, rather than agreeing with the accusations. This shows a great dishonestly so in retrospect Muslims aren't really achieving anything either are they? Sure it won't be written in black or white anymore but if it hasn't changed people's minds then where's the success from all the rioting? "If there were a sexist or homophobic cartoon in a newspaper, they would be sued, it would be taken down immediately and there would be a ton of 'inquiries'." On the contrary if there was a cartoon making fun of heterosexuals then nobody would bat an eye. It just shows that people favour the minority and condemn the majority. Likewise if Muslims attacked back through jokes on the Western world, nobody would riot on the streets over it. So where is the line drawn? Also in your last statement you make it seem that Muslims are not accepted. I poke fun at my friends but does that mean that I don't accept them? It's not as if only people that aren't accepted are made fun of. Everyone makes fun of everyone in the modern culture and there's a fine line between petty jokes and bullying. Muslims are not a special rag doll to the Western world nor should they be a special immunity, unlike the rest of us.