i’m not fine with this. I’m a former Muslim living in a Muslim country, i’m absolutely not okay with drawing a cartoon being a death flag. And i’m not fine with leftists allowing the right to take over this “conversation” like this. I’m not okay with normalizing the respect of stupid religious rules by force over non-muslims.

I get you sympathize with French Muslims because in that specific context it’s punching down but people in Muslim countries have been assaulted, jailed or killed for less. This is not about drawing Mohamed per se, Shia Muslims do it and have done it for 1400 years, it’s about criticizing him . showing him in an unflattering light.

That’s what they’re angry about. You literally can’t talk leftism here without tip-toeing around Mohamed’s legacy. Feminism? property rights? religious and sexual minorities? Once they invoke the religion card you have 70% of people against you.

the better approach in my view is that leftists talk about this, instead of unfairly bashing outraged people and pushing them into the right wing. You can both understand extremism is born out of material conditions, that Muslims are currently france’s scapegoat for it’s economic troube and believe religious criticism is a right.