I think you're missing something here
"snarls if anyone makes a joke about any other religion, because it's Not Politically Correct and Might Be Offensive To Someone"

The point is, a lot of time when people are attacking what-they-say-is-Islam, what they're actually doing is attacking people for being weird foreign-looking darkies - not just for holding silly religious beliefs.

I know, from reading your posts on B3TA over years, that you're not doing that. But a huge proportion of attacks on 'Islam' in mainstream US (and European, to a slightly lesser extent) culture, from Matt & Tre all the way down into the vilest recesses of right-wing blogging and email forwards, are. And so it's hardly surprising that that criticism is perceived differently from someone like you or I who's culturally Christian (despite being actually atheist in both cases) criticising Christianity.

As a white person of Christian descent, you have more leeway to be offensive against white people of Christian descent and not be misunderstood as a bigot than you have leeway to be offensive against non-white people not of Christian descent...
(stalinism, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 17:25, Reply)