explain why paramount censored an image of the prophet muhammad (an image that was simply a portrait, not mocking him) yet was cool with showing a pic of Jesus taking a shyt?
I don't know. They probably think Jesus is theirs to do with as they please but Muhammad (pbuh) belongs to "those" people. Also it's not even what is depicted, respectful or not. Muslims just do not portray prophets visually, even in movies about the prophet done and acted by Muslims, there is never someone "acting" the prophet. On a personal level I just took it to be a prevention of idolising or ending up worshiping any prophet, same way putting up pictures of people and especially the deceased is also not allowed (some people do acts of worship as a sign of respect to pictures or grave sites). There are a whole range of reasons why it's not a good thing and why we don't do it as a monotheistic religion. But to take something that you know is a sensitive topic and cause ridicule for no reason other than to cause offense because you can is just sad, irresponsible and immature. It offends me but I sure as hell wouldn't kill anyone for causing that offence but there's no two ways about it, that is the only reason it was printed. To offend me and those like me because today it's topical to do so. Yesterday Hitler wrote a book where he called Jews rats, today #killallmuslims can be trending.
As a Muslim though someone posting a picture of Jesus (Issa, pbuh), Buddha or Krishna taking a shyt does not amuse me anymore than a picture of Muhammad (pbuh) would.
Since when were mutual respect and freedom of speech mutually exclusive?