Michel Boucher wrote:

> Neither do I but it wasn't terribly hard to dig into this to uncover
> the real JP.

Oh? I guess we did different searches. Nothing I came across even hinted
at it, and interviews with the editors that I hears and saw gave no
indication of that.

>
>
> > But it is interesting
> > that they cite a review of "The Trouble with Islam". I read that
> > book a few months ago and found it quite interesting. It is
> > written by Moslem who criticizes some aspects of contemporary
> > Islam as a religion based on the Quran but a culture based on
> > arabic dessert culture, and that many of the modern practices and
> > teachings are at odds with the teachings of the Quran.
>
> And Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion as well over a thinly
> veiled North European barbarian core. What of it? When it comes
> right down to it, all religions are thin veils over less savoury
> cores.

I am probably among the last that you could expect to defend
Christianity. Maybe it is because I grew up with that moral code that I
don't find it as offensive, but I can't think of any recent incidents
where seemingly inoffensive cartoons have led to violent riots.