Saturday, January 02, 2010
About that Mohammed cartoon...
For those who don't know, the other day an ax-wielding Somali man broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard, one of the cartoonists who did a drawing for Jyllands Posten by way of testing whether Islamists were really such freakazoids that they'd take up arms over pictures. This came after a woman making an unexceptional book about Mohammed discovered that no one wanted to illustrate it lest they run afoul of that species of Muslim who thinks any depiction of the Prophet is idolatry.
Instapundit has some of the latest updates here. More important, he has the cartoon Westergaard created.
Now, there are cartoon depictions you could do of Jesus that wouldn't make me very happy. But I think you'd be hard pressed to drag me into an actual fist fight over it, never mind starting to kill people. That said, it's sort of ironic that Muslims are up in arms over a cartoon that suggests that Islam could be dangerous.
The cartoon is at the top. I'm not sure about rights on this one. If Westergaard or Jyllands Posten - and only those two - contact me to take it down, I will since it's theirs. Failing that, though, I think we all ought to be posting it all over the place to send a clear signal that attempting to suppress speech and ideas will only lead to them being more widely distributed. (You can see my favorite of the cartoons here.)
posted by gbarto at 7:48 PM
 
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