How many rioters in the street had actually read Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses when the reactionary religious leaders issued a murderous fatwah on Rushdie? Almost none of them, practically no one, in fact. It’s enough to say that offence has taken place, it’s not necessary to “prove” it to get rioters out there. That’s something I find offensive.

Are the jihadists really upset because it was just a little old timey bomb depicted in Mohammeds turbin instead of a real nuke like the “Christian” nations have?

As an American artist, should I depict Jesus with a nuke protruding out of his cloak?

Great research, Yule… on the timelines and now the treasuure trove of images! I just hope that more people will read this and stop wringing their hands over the various meanings of “offense” and how they are all feeling about it all … and start thinking!