His misconception is not believing that most Muslims are violent, but that most Muslims take their religion as seriously as the intellectual framework commands.

His misconception is not believing that most Muslims are violent, but that most Muslims take their religion as seriously as the intellectual framework commands. Islam may have not had a reformation into conservative and non-conservative sects, but the great majority of Muslims do not feel an image of Muhammad is worth a riot. Having said that, the proportion of orthodox, Koranic literalists to more liberal Muslims does seem to be significantly higher than the proportion of Christian biblical literalists to more liberal Christians I think this is the point mkn was trying to make, even if using that to justify hatred makes him look kind of dumb.