The Power of Comics
Feb. 5th, 2006 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseOr, "Stand back! I have a .07 Pigment Marker and I'm not afraid to use it!"
I am getting frustrated on the confusion of issues around the Unholy Cartoons. On the one hand, there is the probably true accusation that the comics do nothing but add fuel to the fire of racial tensions in Europe. That's an important issue and, after the riots in France, it's shocking that Europeans still want to circle the wagons against the "evil invaders". Get a clue, folks.
BUT. If you listen to the words of protestors and Muslim clerics who are egging them on, ANY depiction of the prophet from the respectful to the neutrally historical would be equal cause for the execution of the artist and all other understandable actions of the protestors like burning embassies.
It's awesome that people seem to want an end to racism but do not get confused about what the mobs are saying. And I love the protestors who want to create an object lesson by calling for anti-semitic cartoons to be produced in retaliation. Yeah, that'll show all those Jews who really run Europe and the international media who they're dealing with. Hint, those images have been running in the Middle East for years now.
I am getting frustrated on the confusion of issues around the Unholy Cartoons. On the one hand, there is the probably true accusation that the comics do nothing but add fuel to the fire of racial tensions in Europe. That's an important issue and, after the riots in France, it's shocking that Europeans still want to circle the wagons against the "evil invaders". Get a clue, folks.
BUT. If you listen to the words of protestors and Muslim clerics who are egging them on, ANY depiction of the prophet from the respectful to the neutrally historical would be equal cause for the execution of the artist and all other understandable actions of the protestors like burning embassies.
It's awesome that people seem to want an end to racism but do not get confused about what the mobs are saying. And I love the protestors who want to create an object lesson by calling for anti-semitic cartoons to be produced in retaliation. Yeah, that'll show all those Jews who really run Europe and the international media who they're dealing with. Hint, those images have been running in the Middle East for years now.
