There is obviously a difference between humor and hate... why can't anybody see this? I can watch a movie or show that pokes fun at a race/religion/culture and understand that it is a joke and laugh. I can also watch the news and see a real story on a hate crime and feel bad.
I know that there are a lot of jokes done in bad taste, especially on shows like South Park and Family Guy. And I don't really agree with airing some of the truly awful stuff they show. Call me crazy, but I think a joke's purpose is to make you laugh, not be as shocking and disturbing as possible and make you scream "ewww, WTF man? Not cool..."
That being said, I don't see a problem in making fun of the Muslim faith. The truth is that there are many people in the Middle East that would want me dead simply because I'm white. And I can feel comfortable saying that because I even have Muslim friends who agree with me. Osama Bin Laden, The Taliban; It's those people that we should be making fun of, not people like my Muslim friends. We really don't need to get on a PC high horse and protest against making fun of a society/culture (not religion) that wants us dead.
So why would I say I don't have a problem in making fun of Muslim faith? The issue of Mohammed is a touchy subject because now you are not attacking a culture, you are attacking an entire religion. But the fact of the matter is that Terrorists are using the Muslim faith to justify their actions. They believe that they'll be greeted in heaven by 40 virgins or whatever and they'll be rewards for killing us! So what better way to piss off these idiots then to poke fun at the person they claim to have died for.
Look, I'm Christian, my family is Christian, I believe in God and that's my faith. But I don't agree with the nuts who think I'm going to hell for living my life more "liberal" than they would want me to. If poking fun at Jesus is going to drive those Christian enthusiasts nuts then I say go for it. I don't look at jokes about Jesus as an attack against me, I look at it as a joke towards people who take their religion too far, the people that scam others into thinking they "have the power to heal", the priests who have abused their power to sexually molest kids, etc. Terrorists have done the same thing. The difference is they're more extreme in the sense they want Chrsitians and Jews to die.
I think Muslims need to be more understanding on this issue and realise that a joke made about Mohammed in jest, is not a vicious insult about an entire religion.