The only thing different are the reactions, Jews (shockingly) didn’t riot after the New York Times published anti-Semitic cartoons on numerous occasions and Christians weren’t gunning people down after they published “Piss Christ.”

Via Politico:

The image of the prophet Mohammed, however, seems to occupy its own category, with its own rules. Last week, Baquet told me via email that as editor of the Times he had to consider “the Muslim family in Brooklyn who read us and is offended by any depiction of what he sees as his prophet.” When I replied, “I just wonder about the Jewish family in Brooklyn,” Baquet responded as follows:

“I would really do some reporting — I did — to make sure these parallels are similar for the two religions. You may find they are not. In fact they really are not.”

Baquet’s argument, if I’m reading him correctly, is that a cartoonish depiction of Mohammed is more offensive, categorically, than a cartoon that depicts, say, anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews trying to fabricate a Holocaust that, per the cartoonist, never took place.

HT: Allahpundit