Cartoon Update # 1:
Take a deep breath & smile a little:
A Moment to Laugh!
“Because freedom of speech is the freedom to laugh at human follies -
or at least it should be in the civilized world...”
The Mohammed Dance: Let’s boogie!
Iowahawk spoof: Seething Midwest Explodes over Lombardi Cartoons!
Scrappleface spoof: Cartoon Riots Caused by Looney Tunes, Not Koran!
And here's an amusing video clip from The Daily Show's "resident cartoon analyst:" (hat tip - my web guy, Mark Jaquith) Download and watch the video (Windows Media .wmv file).
Chuckle Update # 3:
The Mohammed Dance: Let’s boogie!
Iowahawk spoof: Seething Midwest Explodes over Lombardi Cartoons!
Scrappleface spoof: Cartoon Riots Caused by Looney Tunes, Not Koran!
And here's an amusing video clip from The Daily Show's "resident cartoon analyst:" (hat tip - my web guy, Mark Jaquith) Download and watch the video (Windows Media .wmv file).
Chuckle Update # 3:
Want to see a whole bunch more cartoons? Some not so funny… Well, as you would expect, there are many, many more over at Daryl Cagle's Muhammad cartoons archive.
And here: Samantha Burns.
And here: Samantha Burns.
And here: Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press...
Note from Sissy Willis: "Those familiar with Islam's literature know of Ubaid Zakani's 'Mush va Gorbeh' (above picture: Mouse and Cat), a match for Rabelais when it comes to mocking religion," writes Amir Taheri in his "Bonfire of the Pieties: Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion" in Opinion Journal this morning. How refreshing to hear from someone who knows something about his subject for a change, beyond the lazy mantra abroad of late that "Images are forbidden in the Koran":
"There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else… The issue has never been decided one way or another, and the claim that a ban on images is "an absolute principle of Islam" is purely political. The truth is that Islam has always had a sense of humor and has never called for chopping heads as the answer to satirists.”
"There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else… The issue has never been decided one way or another, and the claim that a ban on images is "an absolute principle of Islam" is purely political. The truth is that Islam has always had a sense of humor and has never called for chopping heads as the answer to satirists.”
Illustration from a contemporary English version of "Mouse and Cat" by Ubaid Zakani (died circa 1372 A.D.), "one of the most remarkable poets, satirists and social critics of Iran"
-- from the Iranian Ketab Web Store.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you!
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