In an ironic twist to this modern history of Western censorship, just two-and-a-half years before the Muhammad cartoons, Jyllands-Posten refused to publish cartoons satirizing the resurrection of Jesus because the Sunday editor feared the Jesus cartoons would “provoke an outcry.” The same newspaper that decried self-censorship and lampooned Muslim oversensitivity to ridicule did not waver in practicing censorship in deference to Christian sensibilities.

QUESTION: This irony could be explored further — why did Western media treat Muslim and Christian sensitivities so asymmetrically?

Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 431