Is Hemant Mehta (http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/05/20/draw-muhammad-day-a-compilation/) a juvenile jerk? I think you have that backwards. As Mehta says, I’m also offended by anyone calling the courageous people who risk verbal threats and physical harm by drawing these mild images “jerks” and “bigots.”
"I have seen evolutionary biologists get really mad when something was said against darwin"
That is intellectually dishonest. Darwin lived 150 years ago and got many things wrong, and evolutionary biologists are well aware of it. Science is not like religion, they have nearly opposite standards -- science *welcomes* falsification.
Is Hemant Mehta (http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/05/20/draw-muhammad-day-a-compilation/) a juvenile jerk? I think you have that backwards. As Mehta says, I’m also offended by anyone calling the courageous people who risk verbal threats and physical harm by drawing these mild images “jerks” and “bigots.”
Grow up.
"But it is not true that Americans never riot over slights; we just care more about e.g. race than we do religion"
You're likening rioting over *oppression* to rioting over perceived blasphemy? That's sick.
"I have seen evolutionary biologists get really mad when something was said against darwin"
That is intellectually dishonest. Darwin lived 150 years ago and got many things wrong, and evolutionary biologists are well aware of it. Science is not like religion, they have nearly opposite standards -- science *welcomes* falsification.
"It is juvenile to try to get people’s goat for the sake of getting it."
You're not normally this dim. That simply is not why people did this. See http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/irking_accomplished_continue.php