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From: Garth Cartledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hank
One of the best responses to the cartoons is a cartoon from the
cartoonist Nicholson for the Australian newspaper a few weeks
ago. It seems to identify the elephant in the room in this
debate. It features a bearded Arabic man holding a book and flinging
Molotov cocktails against a building out of which some blonde,
obviously European, people were peering and the caption read "How
dare you stereotype me as a violent zealot". Go to
http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au to see it.
Further, here is what I wrote on another forum - I do not know if you
do not wish to publish material on other fora but if you do not then
you can at least p
>Actually, on a non-emotive critical analysis there is a very strong
>argument that the Danish cartoons were really a bit more
>subtle. They really addressed the abuse and misuse of Mohammed and
>Islam by fanatics, fanatics who are said not to represent Muslims as
>a whole. And those who stirred up the crowds are smarter than us in
>the non-Muslim communities - they, the fanatic/hard liners who have
>much to lose if ordinary Muslims come out from under their spell,
>saw this - and it threatened them. If the Muslim community stops
>responding to the hard liners/fanatics then those hard liners will
>lose their influence/power. So, of course, they, the hard liners,
>stir up riots to protest the alleged attack on Mohammed when really
>it was an attack on them. Really, we have allowed ourselves to be
>distracted from the reality.
>
>Comedians make fun of Mohammed often but this created an eruption
>out of all proportion to the cartoons - just look at some recent
>episodes of South Park. So why the huge fuss about this one? I
>know, I know - it is about America! But I suspect that it is more
>than that - there are tectonic movements in the Muslim world about
>which we know too little, movements exacerbated by the US intrusions
>all over the Arab world and this could be part of the power
>struggles that happen when there is the massive displacement that is
>going on there. It is too unusual to be just the cartoons.
>
Ta
Garth Cartledge
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