The dreaded cartoons of blasphemy (2007 edition)

If you can handle it, here's the Opus cartoon that many newspapers are too scared to publish. I disclaim any and all responsibility for any terror attacks you may feel compelled to carry out after viewing same.

Via Hot Air, which has much more about this ridiculous episode. The lesson, once again: terrorism works.

At least a subsection of the press in the US is self-censoring (again) out of fear of offending Muslims, hoping to prevent another cartoon jihad or at least keep themselves out of the way when another one erupts. They wouldn’t similarly self-censor for any other group, to the point of taking a couple of cartoon strips down to the local preacher or rabbi for approval as they did with the Islamic experts, because no one thinks the preachers or rabbis are going to spark a full-blown riot over any cartoons. Many people, like Chris Hedges and Andrew Sullivan, like to ride the “Christianist” threat to generate traffic or a best-seller, but even they don’t really believe it.

Which gets us back to the big fact of the day: Terrorism works.

It takes a real coward to spike something as innocuous as this. ...

Damian P.

Posted by damian at August 25, 2007 10:34 AM