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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (272382)2/6/2006 2:26:52 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1575998
 
It was protesting the climate of intimidation that had made it impossible for a Danish author to find an illustrator for his children's book about Mohammed. No artist would agree to illustrate the book for fear of being harmed by Muslim extremists. Appalled by this self-censorship, Jyllands-Posten invited Danish artists to submit drawings of Mohammed, and published the 12 it received.


1. Depicting Mohamed (in any light) is offensive to Muslims. Your innocent sounding author of children's books is either ignorant, or is trying to be provocative in a way upsetting to 20% of the world's population. Think of how Christians might feel about a cartoon of naked Jesus with a great big penis and you get the picture.

2. The cartoons that were published were clearly not intended for some children's book, unless Danish children detonate explosives while pursuing virgins in heaven.

3. Clearly the Danish author could have found some illustrators of relatively tame (albeit sacriligious) cartoons. The newspaper found Danish illustrators ready to make offensive provocative cartoons.

A better way to put the above sentence would be "It was protesting the fact that it was difficult for a Danish author to find an illustrator to make sacrilegious drawings for his book about Mohammed".

I think you have fallen for some BS description of what was going on in the publication of those cartoons.
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