Lets talk about God

this happens every darn time.

• someone takes a part of islam and mis-uses it, makes fun of it or distorts it.
• all the muslim men in listens to the sermon on friday prayer about this and gets all fired up
• they react through protests or violence without thinking about the consequences or the image of islam.
• The so called civilized world calls this terrorism

This is the pattern. muslims are provoked to react when they feel their religion is being attacked or manipulated. which happens quite often.

Some instances

• there were Danish drawings of the prophet with explosives on his turban. of course you get drawings and jokes about christians too. but those are drawn by christians themselves
• When George bush started talking abt 'islams axis of evil'. (what does that moron know about islam??)
• Even pope bendict made some very provocative statements about the prophet, Islam and jihad in one of his 1st speeches after becoming pope

Many of these are quite deliberate. to enrage muslims

even tho not so religious. and tho i feel its alright for everyone regardless of religion to use the word Allah, It would create confusion. The perception to christians of god compared to the perception of god by muslims is different. as for christians lord=god=father is same and their lord that has son. In islam tho god doesn't have a gender (so we don't refer to as 'he' or 'father') and god doesn't have a son.

We can debate on this for ages. the bottom line is people feel strongly about their faith. In every religion peace and tolerance are highly valued traits. So it boils down to when we are in emotional situations like this, are you going to give in on pulse emotions like anger and act upon them. or take a step back and remind yourself about the values your faith holds high.

Think in this situation what would prophet Muhammad (PBUH) have done. would he have organized violent protests?

I don't think so