Saturday, February 04, 2006
Debate Rages On
A joke has been this misunderstood since I worse a Bryan Adams t-shirt 
to the NME Roadshow in 2001, those Islam cartoons. The editor of the French newspaper that reprinted the cartoons, Jacques Lefranc, has been fired. The papers owner is French-Egyptian and I wonder if he is a Muslim himself. In the Gaza Strip armed men stormed the EU offices in t, the Danish Embassy has been fired upon, and a group kidnapped a German citizen (Then let him go again). Elsewhere, Libia is closing its Danish Embassy. Rencet news has reported that Norweigien and Danish embassies have been set alight in Damascus.
In England, Jack Straw has said it was wrong for the cartoon to be published as they where"gratuitously inflammitory" and he praised the UK press for not reprinting them. Reprinting them was an issue for The Guardian, so they instead decided to simply link to other papers who had printed the cartoons (Like I did).
Despite the extreme reaction to the cartoons it is fair to say that the Denmark initially ignored complaints about the cartoons which has only fanned the flames of this intense situation. Why this seems such a new issue however confuses me, as if you do a Google image search search for Islam Cartoons the results show cartoons clearly aimed to offend, insult and discriminate with no respect fo the nodel art of satire.
Here are some of my favorite quotes concerning the cartoons:
"Hang the culprit"
"Blood to redeem the Prophet"
"Death to France"
"Death to Denmark"
Maybe it wasn't so wise of me to e-mail the cartoons around...
Finally, Oh My News contains a good article on satire, religion and freedom of speech, "Caricarues, Cartoon and thje Clash of Cultures" which uses Nazi Germany and Monty Pythons Life of Brain as good examples.
In my own opinion I don't understand how people can say there should be limits to freedom of speech while they carry placards asking for people to be beheaded, pretty extremist and offfensive opinion. We don't live in a Muslim state, not yet, so secular laws shouldn't be inflicted upon the masses, that's jsut crap.
Didn't Bill Hicks say the problem of fundamentalism was that it all mentalists and the fun never starts?
to the NME Roadshow in 2001, those Islam cartoons. The editor of the French newspaper that reprinted the cartoons, Jacques Lefranc, has been fired. The papers owner is French-Egyptian and I wonder if he is a Muslim himself. In the Gaza Strip armed men stormed the EU offices in t, the Danish Embassy has been fired upon, and a group kidnapped a German citizen (Then let him go again). Elsewhere, Libia is closing its Danish Embassy. Rencet news has reported that Norweigien and Danish embassies have been set alight in Damascus.
In England, Jack Straw has said it was wrong for the cartoon to be published as they where"gratuitously inflammitory" and he praised the UK press for not reprinting them. Reprinting them was an issue for The Guardian, so they instead decided to simply link to other papers who had printed the cartoons (Like I did).Despite the extreme reaction to the cartoons it is fair to say that the Denmark initially ignored complaints about the cartoons which has only fanned the flames of this intense situation. Why this seems such a new issue however confuses me, as if you do a Google image search search for Islam Cartoons the results show cartoons clearly aimed to offend, insult and discriminate with no respect fo the nodel art of satire.
Here are some of my favorite quotes concerning the cartoons:
"Hang the culprit"
"Blood to redeem the Prophet"
"Death to France"
"Death to Denmark"
Maybe it wasn't so wise of me to e-mail the cartoons around...
Finally, Oh My News contains a good article on satire, religion and freedom of speech, "Caricarues, Cartoon and thje Clash of Cultures" which uses Nazi Germany and Monty Pythons Life of Brain as good examples.
In my own opinion I don't understand how people can say there should be limits to freedom of speech while they carry placards asking for people to be beheaded, pretty extremist and offfensive opinion. We don't live in a Muslim state, not yet, so secular laws shouldn't be inflicted upon the masses, that's jsut crap.
Didn't Bill Hicks say the problem of fundamentalism was that it all mentalists and the fun never starts?
