Well 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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