Religious intolerance or freedom of speech.

[Viking]

I feel that the UN will do nothing in this case, as it has no economic or technological clout of its own other than that which it is allowed by its disparate members. The EU must take the lead if it sees itself as a credible entity, or embryonic state. In fact, this is one thing that will unite almost all Europeans and if the EU can't harness that feeling then it cannot pretend to represent the peoples of Europe, or not in its present form at least.

edit. this concerns all European states, even Norway which is not a member of the EU.

Yeah, I think EU is the way to go. We`re also demanding money for the damage(burnt down, that is) they did to our embassy, though that is of course only for the sake of principle.

Not sure what Denmark is doing with this.

[rory_20_uk]

I thought that the Koran also states "if you can not convert by the word, convert by the sword". For a peaceful prophet there was one hell of a lot of warfare going on in his name when he surfaced.

Not that Islam is unique. Christ apparently was there for peace, but still we got to the stage of killing people so they'd not sin - making murder and indeed genocide an act of kindness.

~smoking: