Maybe these boys will get to heaven and find out that they really get a 72-year-old virgin, not 72 virgins.

Indonesian Muslim hard-liners signed a pact saying they were ready to die in defence of the Prophet Muhammad, while others burned tyres in streets amid fresh protests in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

A weekly news magazine issued an apology after reprinting several of the 12 cartoons of the prophet that have triggered sometime violent protests across Indonesia and the rest of the Islamic world.

The cartoons were first published in a Danish paper in September, but have since appeared in papers around the world.

About 175 students at an Islamic boarding school in Surabaya city have signed a pledge saying they are "ready to die" to defend the honour of the prophet, said headmaster Yusuf Muhajir.

Such pledges are traditional in Indonesia, and are considered to be symbolic.

He said the students would demand an apology from any Danish citizens they met in Surabaya, the capital of east Java province, and jokingly said they would be "slapped" if they refused to do so.

Guys -- be offended all you want. Boycott whoever you feel you need to boycott. But violence against someone because of their nationality is unreasonable. Heck, if it were, then Americans would have been justified in acts of violence against random Muslims in the streed in the wake of 9/11. Instead, most of us went out of our way to show courtesy and respect to inocent Muslims. Were we wrong?

What is clear is that you and your co-religionists are certainly making the whole "Religion of Peace" thing look like an untruth.

Posted by: Greg at 06:45 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 291 words, total size 2 kb.