I want to believe - but you're making it harder

[kaitou]

This article makes me So Very Angry. I just...I can't even type coherently.

How about a little sympathy for Mr. Westergaard and the people who share his name that have to be under police protection because of extremist religion? Especially as the images found most offfensive in the Akkari-Laban dossier weren't Westergaard's cartoons, or even cartoons at all. The Danish imams added some truly disgusting images, far beyond what would be printed in any paper (a dog raping a praying Muslim), and went as far as making up some of their own (doctoring a photo of a contestant from a French pig squealing competition). They were stirring up far greater controversy, anger and hatred than the original article could have ever generated.

Should Jyllands-Posten have published the cartoons in the first place? I lean towards no, personally. I think that satire and mocking is ok. But my understanding is that most branches of Islam prohibit depicting Muhammad. So running a group of cartoons called 'the face of Muhammad' is pretty poor taste. That doesn't mean you kill people. That doesn't mean you stir up hatred. And, Nancy Holm, you certainly don't say that the Danes were asking for it by being atheist.

...dang it, where's my 'fong you' icon when I need it?

Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

You are so right... you need a "fong you" icon like crazy for this. Selfish idiots.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

XD I have a fong you icon. The problem is that it's sitting on my home computer harddrive. I HAVE space for icons thanks to a lovely anonymous benefactor. I really need to use more of it, so I have a good icon for when I'm angry.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Why did the editors of Jyllands-Posten want to mock Islam in this way? Some of us believed it was in bad taste and also cruel. Intentional humiliation is an aggressive act. As a journalist now living in the same town as Westergaard, I thought some at Jyllands-Posten had acted like petulant adolescents

Going after petulant adolescents with axes is a perfectly understandable response. It's just like that time I sent anthrax-laced Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee to the creators of Drawn Together.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I should have a more sophisticated response to this than.. 'Eee! I got commented on by Ann Larimer!' but, I have to admit that that WAS my first response.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I...usually people tell me to shut up. *hides*

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I never tell funny & clever people to shut up. I want to encourage rambling so I have more material to steal.

[twigcollins.livejournal.com]

An insult and attempted murder are not the same on the 'aggression' scale, journalist lady. >.>

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

For once the comments section is encouraging rather than depressing.