>What do you think would happen if the BBC commissioned a TV comedy series called "Mullah-town" that portrayed mullahs as scheming thieves and the Ayatollah as a gibbering idiot on a pogo stick?
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>I am reminded of the recent "Popetown" TV Series that did exactly that about the Catholic Church. Unfortunately the series was canned- a pity, because screening it in full would have exposed the hypocrisy of those who regard it as perfectly acceptable to attack subsets of Christianity, but holler indignantly at any perceived slight of other beliefs.
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>Personally I don't think that this sort of cartoon is suitable for the front page of a First World newspaper. If people want bigotry, sexism, racism or any other sort of ism, they can seek it out rather than having it shoved gratuitously in front of them.

Did you ever see the Irish sit-com "Father Ted"? Fairly slammed the hypocricy of and ridiculed the RC faith.

The point is, in the West you could have any depiction you like of Jesus. Maybe the Church would lambast it as blasphemy, but I don't think embassies would be sieged, death threats issued to people of the same nation, rioting in the street, etc. e.g. I cited Siné's cartoons, e.g. "INRIette" - the lingerie-wearing girl on the Cross, for one.

As for isms, the closest this would come to my mind would be "religionism"