I'm 110% with 'potatolicious on this. The people saying we shouldn't have to go out of our way to avoid offending Muslims are, of course, right. But there's no cause to go out of our way to offend Muslims, either.
If I was a Islamist culture-warrior, things like "Draw Muhammad Day" would be a coup for me; it might even have been the reason why I'd threaten the lives of cartoonists. To provoke a counterproductive response from the west.
I mean, all we have to do is draw a very important prophet, for god sake! We don't even have Mommahad do bad things them for them to get offended.
Someone will get offended. Somebody will say politically incorrect things.
I don't like other people to act like children when Christians endure religious satire and people saying all Christians are hypocrite or something horrible, daily.
You don't see Christians going around murdering political cartoonists for offending them do you?
That's a little intolerant; you might not understand why they feel that way (I certainly don't) but it doesn't allow you to sneer at such things.
Sure, that is all we need to do. Does that mean we should make a point of doing it?
Walking around nude in front of visitors you your home is, clearly, going to offend some people. That is something I don't really understand because it is just bits, and we all have em!
But would you deliberately take your clothes off when you had visitors? As opposed to accidentally opening the door naked to someone?
There is a difference I think.
Relevance?
I'm sure the ones who are ready to kill people for drawing Muhammad will be so impressed by your principled defense of free speech that they will see the error of their ways...
Seriously, the only thing this will accomplish is to convince those that would NOT murder you but still consider what you are doing extremely rude that you care not one whit about what they think is important. In case you didn't reflect on what you just posted, you are exactly advocating special treatment for Muslims just because they were offended.
It is like parents shreking in horror because Harry Potter promotes witchcraft. No matter what religions you have, intolerance should not be allowed.
After all, free speech isn't about what speech you like or what I like, but what people hate. Someday, you're going to be on the opposite side.