The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
Yesterday, I followed a link to slide.com that had posted the purported cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten. I don't know if these are what were actually printed in that newspaper. Along with these were...
View ArticleWhich of the "Danish 12" actually offend you? And why?
As I was getting into a discussion with someone in another thread about this issue, I was beginning to wonder whether he or she had actually seen any of the images in question other than the...
View ArticleGetting something off my chest about the Cartoon Protests.
I have to say something about the Danish Cartoon protests. I'm not sure if it will be widely accepted, but I really feel the need to get this off my chest. First of all, to all those who found those...
View ArticleFacts on Muslims and Arabs (Two Terms that AREN'T Synonymous)
With all the controversy over the editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, there's been quite a flurry of discussion in Blogostan about Muslims. Some of the discussion has been good (like...
View ArticleThe Cartoons: A Manufactured Controversy? (Illustrated)
According to Wikipedia, Jyllands-Posten published its cartoons of Mohammed on September 30, 2005. Why has it taken so long for controversy to erupt? One clue may be the fact that, again per Wikipedia,...
View ArticleAnother cartoon debate...Toles, Rall & Hannity & OUTRAGE
We all know Sean Hannity is a bully and a hypocrite. He would (perhaps has) believe it no big deal that newspapers are printing comics offensive to Muslims, but oh THE OUTRAGE that Tom Toles has caused...
View ArticleSolidarity with Danes! Wear the Danish Flag!
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View ArticleSour Grapes?
Ok let's talk about my last diary, which not only engendered some 300 comments but also inspired a counter-diary with 300 plus comments.
View ArticleWorld stunned by a sudden attack of Mass-Sanity
After an extremely frank and heated open exchange of views, a sudden attack of Mass Sanity appears to finaly be breaking out in the world. On dailykos people Secularist Fundamentalists who believe that...
View ArticleMuslim Cartoons: Shut up. You're wrong (New Fact Revealed)
A little while ago, I wrote about the Muslim cartoon story, explaining why it was so offensive and provoked such anger in Muslims worldwide. In that posting on my website, I explained in detail Islamic...
View ArticlePoll: the Muslim cartoons continue their objective which was what in reality?
You may know but I did a diary on this subject yesterday. However with all the blogs and reporting on them and the results of printing them one very important point among many has yet to be...
View ArticleNYT's lame excuses for not running Danish cartoons
Check out my blog for the link to the NYT's public editor's posting: http://petrelisfiles.com/ .
View ArticleCould Bush be using the cartoon crisis to his advantage?
This may sound like a crazy hypothesis, but could it be that Bush is borrowing a page form the Art of War and trying to use the Danish cartoon crisis to his political advantage? Read on...
View ArticleThe Cartoon Controversy Shows We Need More Liberals in the World Today
I believe in the freedom of speech. I am a thinking, rational person. I have my own set of morals and values, and, yes, I do find several things that other people do as offensive and/or disgusting....
View ArticleFree Jihad! UPDATED ^3
After having been released. The free speech martyrs, Jihad Momani and Hashem Al Khalidi have been rearrested by the Jordanian government
View ArticleMy thoughts on the Danish Cartoons
The recent events related to the recent cartoons has really made me think about the dangers of religion. In my opinion, the world is threated by at least two crazy religions (Islam and Christianity)....
View ArticleModeling Behavior
President Bill Clinton, easily one of the greatest orators our nation has seen since the days of Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, gave us another great quote yesterday. "If you hold her out as a role...
View ArticleThe Danish cartoons as freedom of expression
There have been several diaries about the drawings by twelve Danish cartoonists printed last fall in Jyllands-Posten in Denmark. In some cases, those who comment seem to not be on the same page, and...
View ArticleDanish paper cancels plans to republish cartoons about Israel
The Danish newspaper that created a storm in the Arab world by publishings cartoons of the prophet Mohammed has canceled plans to reprint several cartoons dealing with Israel, a senior editor told...
View ArticleCrescent-mooney-looney-toons
My two cents on the danish cartoon controversy. If we added together all of the 2 cents that people offered up on this issue online, we would have <iframe src="http://costofwar.com/embed.html"...
View ArticleWell i finally saw the cartoons....
Well i finally found the cartoons, and all i can say is WOW! No where near the level of what i was expecting, i figured they would show Mohammed borking a 8 year old girl or something. But instead...
View ArticleCartoon Coda (we can only hope)
I've pointed out on other blogs (particularly Steve Gilliard's) that, while there could be an objection to the Danish cartoons based on racial stereotypes, the overarching objection was depicting...
View ArticleDenmark's Lurch to the Far Right
The links between Flemming Rose -- the Culture editor of Jyllands-Posten who commissioned and published the "Mohammed the Terrorist" cartoons --- and the neo-cons in the United States --- in particular...
View ArticleSlippery Slopes: cartoons, gay adoption, and morning after pills
What do these phenomena have in common? claims that a Danish newspaper, and subsequently other news media, should not have published rather mild cartoons (as The New York Times called them) depicting...
View Article"God Loves Fucking!" The SONOFAGOD PICTURES
Gilbert and George's SONOFAGOD PICUTRES: Was Jesus Heterosexual? are now showing at the [White Cube Gallery www.whitecube.com] in London. In the largest work (viewable here),"Jesus Says Forgive...
View Article'Whoever insults the one true Church deserves to be killed.' (News report)
Reposted with permission of the author, David Aaronovitch, winner of the George Orwell prize for political journalism."EUROPE MUST LEARN to live in and with the world, not to dominate it, nor to assume...
View ArticleYou're right, it is all your fault
I enjoyed the mea culpa recently published by Dale McFeatters, the conservative Scripps Howard columnist. He admitted in his February 15th column that global warming and the hatred of the Arab world...
View ArticleIntellectuals' Statement Against Islamism; Poll
BBC News reports that "Salman Rushdie is among a dozen writers to have put their names to a statement in a French weekly paper warning against Islamic "totalitarianism"."The writers say the violence...
View ArticleIslamic fundamentalism: A British Socialist View
Unsure whether the cookbook reaction to FlagstaffHank's What About the Threat From Islamic Fundamentalism reflects antipathy to Daniel Goldhagen, the time of day, or something else, I reproduce a...
View ArticleOpen Letter To Comedy Central
Dear Comedy Central,It is with great concern that I learn of your censorship of the show "South Park". Your refusal to allow "South Park" to broadcast an image of the Prophet Mohammed has caused great...
View ArticleIranian cartoons (w/ poll)
We all remember the violence when 12 cartoons depicting Muhammad were published in Denmark. 139 dead in rioting. 3 embassies burned. Numerous death threats.
View ArticleOld-Fashioned Eurofascists Provoking New Muslim Cartoon Brawl
In a liberal democracy, it's crucially important that a person's right to be a total douchebag not be limited by the state (I think it's in our Constitution somewhere). So while I think he should be...
View ArticleBecoming Like... A Little More Human...
Rising above your normal and usual bestial tribalism. The call of Barack Hussein Obama.Yeah.And the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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