They may have changed it by the time you read it, but
this one from CNN may take the cake:
"Bush Urges End to Cartoon Violence"
Now we all know what they mean, but it reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Marge takes a stand against Itchy & Scratchy. "Heh heh.. We'd better stop those Tom & Jerry characters before they get out of hand."
And I'm conflicted. It's possible to find those cartoons online. In fact, it's pretty easy to do so. Being a Western secularist, I don't see what the big deal is. In fact, I think that the media has missed the point of this story. I think that those cartoons are just a flashpoint to vent anger against the West, and that the story is one piece of the bigger story about corrupt, repressive governments redirecting their people's anger against an outside entity. Why else would Afghans be trying to storm a US base? We didn't even print the damn cartoons.
So I don't know whether or not I should include a link to these things. Though I don't see what the big deal is, other people are willing to die (and kill) over them, so clearly the images are deeply offensive to some.
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