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Christ. What an asshole
02.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Christ. What an assholeCharles’s Second Law states that the phrase “Christ, what an asshole” is the answer to nearly every New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest. And at least as funny, I’d add.
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cartoons, civil-society, danish-cartoons, free-speech, islam, muhammed, protests, violence
Can’t Muslim fundamentalists take a joke?
02.09.06 | Permalink | 9 CommentsSome three months ago I posted about Danish cartoonists receiving death threats for their depictions of Muhammed. And, well, things have only gotten more intelligent since then, so it’s time for an update. But first, this linktastic post by Jason Pitzl-Waters, which points to this Wikipedia summary of the whole damn thing. And this Christopher […]
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cartoons, chrisopher-hitchens, civil-society, danish-cartoons, free-speech, muhammed, submission, violence
Toons and aggressive intent
Christopher Hitchens: “Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet—who was only another male mammal—is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, […]
