Islam is MAGIC!
There it is folks. The image that has caused otherwise violent religious zealots to turn into, well, violent religious zealots. Of course, the now infamous images above, printed in a Danish Newspaper, have caused some measure of controversy in the Muslim world. Strangely, it has also caused some measure of violence...
Of course, as a blogger, it is my responsibility to have an opinion on this. So here it is...
I'm with the protestors.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for sticking it to the (Muslim) man. But if you're taking on Mohammed, it had better be funny. Mohammed with a bomb as a turban? How cliche. An image of Mohammed's face etched into the Fertile crescent? What, is that meant to be poignant? I, for one, have had it with banal satire.
Death to the unsubtle!!!! Behead the unfunny!!!!!!!! Bomb the embassies of the unclever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean, if you want to take a jab at Mohammed, how about making light of the fact that he would behead fathers and take their wives as his sex slaves? That would be wacky!!!!! Maybe you could satire Mohammed's uncomfortable tendency to rape the underaged? You could have a cartoon depicting this, while Yassir Arafat dangles the Koran in front of him, with Mohammed saying "Right, right... No, you got me, you got me... Good one Yassir. Good one..."
For added fun, the next frame could be Mr. Arafat cackling and rubbing his hands over the girl after Mohammed leaves.
Now that's comedy!
But seriously, the world needs better satire, and I believe it's worth killing for. We must set up an international court for the advancement of Comedy (ICAC), which will hold lousy cartoonists accountable. A drawing of Karl Rove as a ventriloquist, with George W. Bush as his puppet? Off with your head. A drawing of an oil executive in a robber-suit and a mask? 20 years in the gulag! A drawing of a gun, labeled "The Patriot Act" shooting a target, labeled "Civil Liberty", welcome to the firing-squad of non-laughter.
So, crazy Muslims, I support you in your violent quest for better comedy...
What? They're angry because Mohammed's sacred? So it has nothing to do with comedy at all? What? Mohammed is a major prophet in the Muslim religion?
Well, that explains a lot...
posted by Kevin Sawyer | 1:13 PM 
4 Comments:
Did you hear that it was actually the Saudi's who spilled the beans? The Saudi's were getting a bad rap for mulsims being trampled to death at Mecca (in Saudi Arabia). These cartoons had already been our for a month or so, but the Saudi newspaper (run by the government) printed them to get the Muslims all whipped up at turn their hostility elsewhere.
Do you know if that's true?
I think it was a coalition of Islamic leaders, who also included three (much more offensive) cartoons of their own creation in an attempt to generate a frenzy.
Funny how you don't hear lefties touting the joys of Europe much nowadays, incidentally.
In all fairness, the cartoon examples you cited regarding Bush/Bush Policies were funny, five years or so back when the first appeared...they are now just redundant.
Who will decide what qualifies as good satire? I only ask because the Bush administration investigated a conservative cartoonist for a cartoon that was sympathetic to Bush and critical of the media-that the Bushites somehow read as a threat on the life of the president.
So, I would not trust any of the administration to be a part of the process, mainly because they do not get humor (and when they try, they lack little thinks like "appropriate timing").
In all fairness, the cartoon examples you cited regarding Bush/Bush Policies were funny, five years or so back when the first appeared...they are now just redundant.
Who will decide what qualifies as good satire? I only ask because the Bush administration
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