I can't think of a religion that doesn't deal with disrespect from outsiders. Catholics? The Pope and his crazy hats. LOLpedophiles. Bad conspiracy theories

I can't think of a religion that doesn't deal with disrespect from outsiders. Catholics? The Pope and his crazy hats. LOLpedophiles. Bad conspiracy theories. Basically everything Dan Brown has ever written. Gay priest jokes. Mormons? Magic underwear. The Angel MORONi. Multiple wives. The total hilarity and necessary suspension of belief required to buy that God buried a bunch of Additional Commandments in upstate New York. Jews? Don't even get me started. I can't think of any religion that doesn't "deal with disrespect." There are some that I'm not familiar enough with (Native American religions), but I'm 100% sure they've probably taken crap over it at times. You can ask that people respect your religion, and probably most people will, but some people just aren't going to. Because religions are, pretty much by definition, arbitrary and weird to people not involved in the religion. So then the question becomes, how do you want to respond to that disrespect? You can just ignore it, which is a pretty popular choice, or you can engage with the critics, which is pretty effective but probably tiring and obnoxious, or you can even invert it and be self-effacing and try to disarm them. Or you can flip the fuck out and start making death threats, maybe kill some people. But if you do that latter path, it's probably not going to do anything about the amount of disrespect -- it's going to make it much, much worse. Either Muslims will, as a group, figure this out, or we'll just continue to see this sort of needling forever. So, in response to your question, "I wonder if South Park would try to still do a depiction if they were faced with my simple message and request instead of a death threat," I think the answer is of course not. Because that would be boring. But as long as they continue to get death threats and other crazy, disproportionate responses, they're going to keep mocking. (Just like they're going to keep needling the Scientologists.)