Cartoon protests - yes, still spamming.

[icarus]

In a new turn, a prominent Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, invited artists to enter a Holocaust cartoon competition, saying it wanted to see if freedom of expression — the banner under which many Western publications reprinted the prophet drawings — also applied to Holocaust images.

Good point. Suddenly the Islamic cartoon protests make sense to me (if not the violence).

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[stellahobbit.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually seen the comic strip (I'm not even sure if our papers are reprinting them) but I assumed that the problem with them is that, under Islamic law, you can't draw or show Mohammed. Wasn't there a movie of his life that had the actor playing him completely out of shot for every frame? I didn't know that the strip was mocking him!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

There have been other western depictions of Mohammad that haven't incensed the arabs. The cartoon was described as Mohammad having a bomb in his turban, on his head? Anyhow, I got the sense it was depicting all of Islam as terrorists.

Icarus