Some thoughts about cartoons.

[technosapien]

As a cartoonist, I thought a bit about this blowup over in Europe about the editorial cartoons.
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Sad but true

[zenboiuke]

Personally I agree 100%. I am sick of hypocrisy, sick of cowardice, sick of bullies. I refuse to allow people like that to diminish my faith in humanity, but damn there are somedays I just wanna smite somebody...

It's good to read your commentaries :)

~Kier

Re: Sad but true

[technosapien]

Let's put it more succinctly:
as offensive as the editorial cartoons are, the reaction of *radical Islam* only serves to further enhance the stereotypes the cartoons portrayed. Burning embassies? Beating people up? Burning flags?!

Can we say irony?

I read some commentary from the Washington bureau chief of the German newsweekly Die Zeit (they ran the images; not originally, but ran one of them in the context of the debate when it became newsworthy). Here's a link to the chat.

Very interesting. I can say none of this better than he did himself.
It's the radical Islamists that are causing all this trouble. The vast majority of non-radicals are taking it more in-stride.

I also read where many Islamists don't even see this as the great sin that the radicals say it is.

Know how this all got started? A children's book writer wants to write a book about the life of Muhammad, but could find nobody who would illustrate it, because they feared for their lives....

Insane.