I agree, religion is absurd, but it plays an important role in society.

However people choose to follow it and dedicate their life to it so those people are likely to get offended by certain things, which publicly humiliates their religion. Some people can see the funny side of a joke, some can't. However, the media will never ever report on how a group of Muslims laughed their tits off at the drawing of Mohammad's, or how a Muslim boy Sky +'d that episode of South Park to watch with all of his Muslim mates.

There are batshit crazy Christians out there and batshit crazy Jews. It's just how the world is. If we were fighting a war in a predominantly Jewish country, i guarantee we'd be reading about all of the crazy things certain Jews get up to. As it stands there's no public interest in 'Crazy Jew' stories. It wouldn't sell as well as a headline with the word 'Mulsim' in it.