AZ writes:
To Islam caricatures, idols and images of God or Muhammad are hateful in the extreme. Just as hateful as the modern connotation of a swastika is to a Jew or the racists' use of nigger to a black.
The hatefulness of both the term "nigger" and the use of the Swastika as a symbol are historically obvious.
But what is it that makes cartoons of Mohammed indicative of hatefulness towards Moslems?