Those Darn Danish Cartoons...

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Well, since I'm a writer free of 'constitutional restrictions' and with the luxury of freedom of expression, I'm going to fully and freely express myself here. The Danish newspaper, Jyllands Postenm which is located in a country with a very free press had every right to publish the images.

There was only one remotely questionable one and it is one wherein there is an Islamic man portrayed as having a bomb for a turban. It could be Muhammad or it could very well be Ayatollah. But, it doesn't really matter since the outrage didn't start until these cartoons were brought over to the Mid East.

In fact, like I've mentioned in an early post, there are many drawings that exist with Muhammad, the 'sacred' prophet and founder of Islam. Why was there no outrage about it until now? For that matter, why is there only outrage when there is an 'offensive' cartoon or the Qu'ran, according to News Weekly, has been 'violated'...? Where is the moral outrage over the treatment of women and children? Outrage over the escalating violence and beheadings and everything else that goes against Islam's so-called 'peace'? How can these people call it a 'religion of peace' when they only stand up for something that is offensive and do so with violent actions?

So, for that reason, I'm willingly republishing the images in my blog as a statement that I stand behind Jyllands Postenm's democratic right to publish these cartoons. They may be offensive to some, but there have been plenty of Christian and Jewish cartoons published before with far less public backlash.

If it had been Christian or any other sensitive topic, I'd be posting it as well, simply because I don't need a bunch of conservative hyper-sensitive politically-correct assholes telling me what I can and cannot post.

Jyllands Postenm

Danish author Kaare Bluitken wrote a primarily educational children's book about the prophet Mohammed, but ran into problems trying to find an illustrator. Certain interpretations of Islam find it inappropriate or directly forbid pictures of the prophet. Eventually, an illustrator did agree to work on the book, but only under the cloak of anonymity.

Jyllands-Posten published several articles addressing this state of affairs. The newspaper took a position that it is untenable for non-Muslims to be bound by Muslim scripture.

In order to find out exactly how widespread self-censorship is, the newspaper asked a number of Danish illustrators to submit their own personal interpretations of how the prophet might appear.

Twelve illustrators submitted drawings, which the newspaper published on 30 September 2005 as a contribution to the debate about self-censorship amongst journalists, authors, and artists.

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