Some fool, bent of sowing seeds of discord, shoots an insulting film in the United States and thousands of people across the world take the bait: burning and pillaging. Several innocent people have already died as a consequence in Libya and Sudan. Cui bono? I doubt that God would need and or choose such ambassadors. And indeed the vast majority of Muslims understand that what is pure cannot be tainted by human insults and understand that violence is the worst insult to divinity that humanity has invented.
"UNESCO expresses concern about recent death threats against Manish Harijan, a Nepali artist, whose works are on show at an art gallery in Kathmandu. The threats were in reaction to Harinan’s paintings which combine images of Hindu deities and Western superheroes."
It is unlikely that Mr Harijan deliberately set out to offend his audience. In fact there is a certain moral allegory in his work. After all, for many in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, super heroes have become "deities". Jediism is a case in point, although often the hero worship may be more subliminal. Whatever the motives, killing him is not going to make God smile and rub "his" divine hands in glee. The Christian Church tried that not that long ago, only to find a few centuries later that it had murdered some of its greatest minds.
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