I say camps, since I think there's no other way: there are only two sides, either you find the JP cartoons offensive, or you don't. Black and white.
Not sure about that. I am personally not offended, though I find several of them distasteful. But I have no problem seeing them through muslim eyes, by which they are either offensive, deeply offensive, or outrageously offensive, depending on depth of devotion and prior exposure to similar things.
For me, the essential divide is between those want legal restrictions on the freedom to ridicule religion and those who do not. The world's northernmost desert wind.
I think the one difference in our approach is that you're one step ahead of me: I put the divisionary line in the problem, you put it in the solutions. For the rest, I get the impression we're sharing the same train of thought.
