This morning, like a lot of people, I heard that an Iranian newspaper is looking for cartoons about the Holocaust. Reaction from Israel was expected, but where are the riots and demonstrations in Europe? Maybe later when people have had their breakfast.
Haven’t seen the comics yet? face of muhammed has ’em and a quick look at technorati returns many interesting posts:
- This is the kind of thing they should have done from the start rather than destroying stuff.
- The Bigger Picture from an article by Victor Davis.
- Yay! Someone who’ll be devoting “a few days to violent protesting, burning flags, torching embassies, and chanting death threats.” Finally!
- And Dugg says that “Arab newspapers already lampoon Jews, Christians, Europeans and the Holocaust on a daily basis. Having a contest on the subject would be sort of like the MoveOn.org having a contest to lampoon the President of the United States.”
Then there’s the hipocrisy of a peaceful religion acting violently against anyone who criticises them.
Later… Andrew Sullivan writes that it’s your taboo, not mine and, “Freedom means learning to deal with being offended.” (via)
Be careful, it’s a crazy ol’ world out there.