One Man's Cartoon Is Another Man's Insult

Who'll ever forget the major hoohaw over the infamous Muslim cartoons? Many publications wouldn't publish them, and some who did have since groveled.

The University of Virginia has run some cartoons of their own with mixed results (from Special Report):

Offended Christians have sent nearly 2,000 letters to The University of Virginia's student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, calling on the paper to apologize for a series of cartoons mocking their religion, including one portraying the Virgin Mary with an "immaculately transmitted" rash.

Editor-in-chief Michael Slaven says the paper will not apologize simply because someone is offended, saying newspaper policy allows cartoons to ridicule a group for it's own "opinions or actions."

But Slaven did issue an apology for a religious cartoon in February, after a widespread student

What's the difference between the Muslim and Christian cartoons and the paper's reaction to the blowback? Christians don't cut off the heads of people who offend them.