Why is publishing an image of Muhammad a grave insult to Islam, but eating pork is not?

[Igel]

5. Depends where you are and when you are.

At various times non-Muslim festivals and celebrations had to be kept discrete. Meaning "invisible."

Same for things like pigs and pork. In many Muslims countries you don't find pig for sale.

And the sale of alcohol is prohibited. If you're a church and require it, there are hoops to jump through.

It's one reason for ghettos. Jewish and Xian, both existed to allow those communities to have their own kind of system in place, without having to be too muted by the Muslim majority around them. Religious leaders were typically the political leaders and organizational centers in such ghettos.


Once I was at a student/administrator meeting that had food. Decent food. I went through the line next to a young man in the Muslim Society of America. He was disparaging and offended that they dared to have pig as part of the buffet line. He continued to vent until he noticed I wasn't eating any, and he asked if I ate pork.

I said no, he called me a nasty name for a Jew, and refused to shake my hand or even sit next to me for the remaining portion of his term. (This made his taking a seat at the committee table very difficult, since he also refused to sit next to any woman, who were about 50% of the committee.)