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My man Arkady sends this picture along for your delectation.
Enjoy.
Thursday, 9 February 2006 - 12:51 PM CST
Name: ArkadyI was inspired by the flood of headlines about 'cartoon violence'. Glad you liked it. Thanks for helping me share the joy.
Thursday, 9 February 2006 - 8:37 PM CST
Name: Rider
The exclamation mark should be at the left instead of the right. Lame.
The Danish "newspapers" which pubished the cartoons are right-wing rags. The cartoons were intended to provoke Muslim outrage. It worked. Duh.
Thursday, 9 February 2006 - 10:40 PM CST
Name: TP
Rider:
The Danish "newspapers" which pubished the cartoons are right-wing rags. The cartoons were intended to provoke Muslim outrage. It worked. Duh.
Translation: "Being a liberal, I can't bring myself to hold individuals responsible for their behavior."
Or: "I think Bushitler is creating terrorists like Jehovah fashioning Adam out of clay."
Friday, 10 February 2006 - 12:46 AM CST
Name: Arkady
Rider-
Who cares if those publications were right wing or not? Not me; I don't read them.
I'm not making any statement, you dumb-ass. I'm making fun of funny headlines ("cartoon violence", etc.)
Who cares about people who have no sense of humor? They made their choice.
Who cares what side the freaking exclamation point goes on?
I suppose humor is lost on you, too. Figures.
Don't start burning anything or declaring fatwahs on anything. S'all we need's another person losing their continence over a drawing.
Friday, 10 February 2006 - 12:49 AM CST
Name: Arkady
And actually the cartoons weren't published to provoke Muslim outrage so much as they were published to PROVE that they could. It's like a social experiment as performance art. And the show is now touring the planet. Enjoy.
Personally, I find the reactions more repulsive than the cartoons.
Friday, 10 February 2006 - 3:54 PM CST
Name: TP
Arkady:
a social experiment as performance art
True dat.
Saturday, 11 February 2006 - 3:09 PM CST
Name: RiderTranslation: Being a conservative, I can't bring myself to hold Bush accountable for the unintended negative consequences of his policies. As our Fearless Leader, his policies only have positive consequences, and hence we are privileged though unworthy to lick up any drops of spittle which may fall from his blessed lips.
Saturday, 11 February 2006 - 8:46 PM CST
Name: Rider
"they were published to PROVE that they could."
Double Duh. Now there's a brilliant fucking reason to do something! Is there a grown-up at home I could speak to?
Monday, 13 February 2006 - 9:02 PM CST
Name: Arkady
Rider-
I find it hard to believe that you really want to take the side of the 'horribly offended muslims' on this one.
The Danish rag that originally ran these 'toons (Almost a half-year ago, before the town cryer made his long donkey-ride to Kabul)was making a statement about the singular phenoomenon of a culture incapable of taking a little fun poked at them.
They did so to bring to light a societal problem that they felt needed to be addressed: Muslim extremists, more so than any other brand of religious freakazoids, will completely lose their shit and start blowing up innocent people if you hurt their little feelings.
Jyllands Posten was right to throw this social grenade into the public forum. Why should Dutch filmmakers and the authors of books get stabbed to death by rabid morons and society stand idly by. It's as if the world has made peace with the fact that Muslims are just volatile, and therefore you just have to be careful around them. Fuck that! I think they need to be seen mobbing in the streets, setting fires over nothing. With every ridiculous protest they give abundant evidence to support the Danes' case.
The point is, it is their culture that should change if it is to survive. The rest of the world shouldn't have to tip-toe around hoping they don't piss off the neighborhood psychopath.
"Duh"
It's easy to see that these drawings were disrespectful and bigoted and inflammatory, and all that garbage. What everyone seems to be missing (or afraid to say) is no cartoon, no matter how offensive, should justify violence and murder.
Danes: 1
Muslims: 0