Rather than commenting to AAP below I figured I would frontpage this idea.
Instead of backing down to people who are killing and burning buildings down over a freaking cartoon, how about we up the ante? I have been inspired by Christopher Hitchens of all people, who recently wrote for Slate this must-read article
Cartoon Debate: The Case for Mocking Religion. His philosophy is simple, even if he mucks it up in this essay. If we can't mock Mohammed then they are forcing us to be Muslims. It would be like Hindus burning down the American embassy because we eat beef. So they don't like depictions of their prophet, BFD, sorry, too bad you freaking sissies. No one likes it when others break the rules of their religion. But the difference between civilized countries/civilized religions and these jackasses is that when someone does something that contradicts some silly tenet of your religion you don't go around killing people and burning embassies.
Sorry, but they deserve abuse over this. They deserve more mockery, more cartoons of Mohammed, and more depictions of their prophet in more ignoble poses. Rather than backing down we, as members of the civilized world, should overwhelm them with images offensive to their religion to show them that we will not back down. We will not all become Muslims, we will be free to be as respectful or disrespectful to any religion as we see fit. Until they can take that like men, they can go screw themselves. We should flood the internet, print media, and television networks with offensive imagery until they understand that killing and burning is not an appropriate response to religious mockery. Every other religion seems to take abuse without having temper tantrums, why can't they.
I would be more than pleased to have a fark-esque comment section today where you submit your most offensive depiction of Mohammed. If you like, you can throw in a piss Christ or two (no Christians burned down Serrano's studio), or even mock Moses and Abraham (that wannabe baby killer). Screw these people if they can't take a joke.
1 Comments:
Do you think it's occurred to any fuming nutjobs that acting like marauding fanatics is just the kind of thing that will get satirical cartoons made about you? Mayhem really isn’t the best way to clear this up.
Seriously though, I absolutely agree with your previous post that this is just part of a giant, spiraling-out-of-control culture war. People were pretty surprised in 1914 when the assassination of an Archduke touched off a World War. In the Frivolous Action Leading to a Global Conflagration category, this thing will beat that hands down.
-Jeff
4:49 PM, February 08, 2006
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