"Danish Cartoons cause Global Crisis"
This is just crazy. I mean if cartoons can cause a "global crisis", we really have hit an all time low in religious zealotry. Fundamentalist Christians/Radical Muslims = No difference.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
It's gotten out of control
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I think art--and yes, even single-panel political cartoons are art--has a responsibility to create affront. The interestint thing about this incident is the hypocrisy it exposes on both the right and the left, as some prominent leftists attempt to justify the homicidal rage of much of the Islamic world, the right starts trumpeting free speech, and both find themselves on the opposite side of where they stood when the issue was a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of urine.
Yeah dude, it's actually starting to become so ridiculous I can only laugh. I mean obviously it's not funny at all, but in my opinion, there is little difference between Bush and Bin Laden.
I think people have just plain forgotten how to laugh at themselves.
Like head bumping into a cabinet. I prefer to just rub, cuss a bit and then laugh because it was so stupid. But lately the popular reaction is to cry, scream, throw a fit then take it out on the cabinet maker or the rest of the world.
I'm not a big fan of political cartoons done in the last 20 years anyway no matter who they're poking fun at. They just seem lame and in poor taste.
BTW I haven't forgotten those herbal protocols, I've just been swamped but I'll email them to Rob and he'll pass them on to you. :)
Big difference
Piss Christ irritates fundamentalist Christians--response: lots of hot air, griping and a few protests involving a few thousand zealots. NEA funding--untouched, artists unmurdered, art continues
Mohammad cartoon irritates Muslim street--response: Austrian embassy burned down, Danish embassy burned down, thousands take to the streets, boycott ensues, and recruiting for suicide bombers in Afghanistan triples (according to the Taliban). Also, btw, a filmmaker criticizing islam was murdered last year, Salman Rushdie is still living under a fatwa and the concept of islamic art is nearly oxymoronic at this point because of how oppressed and suppressed the creative impulse is for anything but murderous rage.
They are not equivalents no matter how much you dislike fundamentalism in America. It is the beginning on insanity to lose perspective about one's opponents.
Yes Matt, AND, the seeds of both start in the same place - in my opinion.
Too true Stine, too true.
Umberto Eco wrote this in the Name of the Rose and I think it is so true:
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. We should rather aspire to a heaven where only the planets live in eternal bliss, receiving neither rewards nor condemnations, but enjoying merely their own eternal motion in the arms of the void.
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