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NEWS: Jojo's Anime, Manga Sales Halted Due to Islamic Images

Actually, while I haven't read it myself, a couple of people have commented that ironically enough, one of the characters in JoJo's is a Muslim, and he's a good guy.

Religious folk are too touchy, especially Muslims, it seems.

If I was Muslim I would be offended by these fantastics who take such offense and make such noise at a cartoon.

The hell with them. Not that we jews don't get offended easily. But, it is their tradition. This is how they were acting most of the history since the end of their golden age in the early middle ages. If you say something about me i will take it to depth of my heart and kill you in an act of rage. this is their mentality. Post- medieval mentality. and that's what the muslim masses do today, kill everyone they can kill and don't like. But i don't see why all the world should fall on his knees on every tidbit of them getting heart.

To the muslim that reacted here, thats right that there are movements agienst the fanatical and in favor of change (the muslim feminist movement and so forth) but unfortunatly they are too weak at this moment. So the fantics have a foothold on the masses. And this is the exactly the problem with Islam today. Since the Iranian revolution the fanticals power grows in the muslim world and so the feeling goes that everybody is bad except me and trying to heart me had become the ruling position and this case is another proof.

Yes, I agree.
Some more information to consider:
Muslims murdered Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses. Because of this, Japanese publishers are scared to death of any Muslim complaints and will bend over backwards to appease them.

Go Nagai's manga "Allah-kun" has been out of print for years because of similar protests.

This isn't a playground argument of who "started it," this is the adult world and in the adult world we aren't supposed to get so worked up over such minor issues.

What I meant was, anime/manga in general could use some more characters of different ethnicities who were not stereotypes. Seriously, outside of Black Lagoon, how many Jews have you seen in anime? I think we could use more Jews. More everyone!

The cartoon series’ pirated version with Arabic subtitles has been distributed on websites since March 2007.

After a viewer posted negative comments and the still scene, it sparked off more protests. Eventually responses were carried on more than 300 Arab and Islamic Web forums with some accusing Japan of insulting the Quran.

Sheikh Abdul Hamid Attrash, chairman of the Fatwa (religious edict) Committee at Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni authority based in Cairo, dismissed the cartoon as an insult to Islam.

"This scene depicts Muslims as terrorists, which is not true at all,’’ he said. ‘‘This is an insult to the religion and the producers would be considered to be enemies of Islam."

I think in the interests of everyone trying to get a long, it would be helpful if everyone could try to NOT see hate in everything, while also not injecting hate into everything. Ahh, wouldn't that be a wonderful world.?

@ GATSU: This isn't a playground argument of who "started it," this is the adult world and in the adult world we aren't supposed to get so worked up over such minor issues.

But then again, may I ask you:
If somebody makes an art making fun of Holocaust, would you just say nothing? Or would you let them be free in the name of 'free speech'?
Does free speech mean we are free to hurt people's feelings?

Hell yeah it does. I wont say people should needlessly or intentionally do things to offend people. But they should have the right to if they so choose. I recognize that there are exceptions to free speech and that your right cannot infringe on the rights of others. However, when you protect something as abstract and subjective as someone's feelings you open it up to all kinds of vague and ill defined things that one can claim free expression may "harm".