that although many commenters on these threads seem to believe that everyone needs to be able to accept being ridiculed and satired... there is a difference between being made fun of and being vilified.  A bomb in Muhammed's turban is vilification.

When members of the majority who have access to the dominant mass media use that access and their dominant position in society to vilify and demonize a weaker minority... well, that can lead to bad things.

I learned that when I went to Rwanda.

To stem the inevitable outrage over that statement, I want to make it clear right now that I am not saying that I think Danes are going to start slaughtering their Muslim neighbors.  I am only saying that hate speech starts somewhere.

Some kinds of speech, especially when someone stronger mocks someone weaker -- what, you can't take it? you just don't have a sense of humor... -- strike me as more like bullying than humor.