No magicdragon, I take your points. I gather you are 'atheistically' minded which is entirely your business, and I can see where you are coming from in your post. However, I suppose the point is that on difficult and sensitive issues it is necessary to 'choose our battles'. The cartoon for example was gratuitous and what's more, served no purpose. In other words, not a battle worth fighting.

I am trying to be mindful of other people's concerns here as they have mentioned here, but at the same time, also trying to understand the hidden implications of what is being requested in this thread - in other words, if they are requesting one or two basic red lines, or many hundreds of them protruding into all sorts of areas. The objection to Rushdie above is rather suggestive of the latter, I'm afraid.