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Olde Tyme Religion
A Muhammad Cartoon A Day
2012-10-02
In which Daniel Pipes suggests a novel experiment. Herewith a taste:
[Fox News] When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in his magical 1989 realist novel "The Satanic Verses," Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He issued a death edict on Rushdie and all those connected to the production of his book. By doing this, Khomeini sought to impose Islamic mores and laws on the West. We don't insult the prophet, he effectively said, and neither can you.

That started a trend of condemning those in the West deemed anti-Islamic that persists to this day. Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

Which prompts this question: What would happen if publishers and managers of major media outlets reached a consensus -- "Enough of this intimidation, we will publish the most famous Danish Muhammad cartoon every day, until the Islamists tire out and no longer riot"? What would happen if Korans were recurrently burned?

Would repetition inspire institutionalization, generate ever-more outraged responses, and offer a vehicle for Islamists to ride to greater power? Or would it lead to routinization, to a wearing out of Islamists, and a realization that violence is counter-productive to their cause?
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Absolutely necessary in order to remove the imams carefully structured fantastic sensationalism. You know, that sensationalism which keeps the Islamic drones reaffirming their faith through violence.
Posted by: Cretinous Humongous   2012-10-02 18:45  

#5  I've been calling it desensitization for years. Yes. More, please.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-10-02 12:49  

#4  Just consider it desensitization therapy for islamic derangement syndrome.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-02 11:06  

#3  My depiction of Mohammed:

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For some reason I had trouble getting the head on straight.
Posted by: Iblis   2012-10-02 10:57  

#2  I imagine there are a lot of folks willing to get on the bandwagon once it gets rolling, but probably do not want to be counted among the first fifty.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-10-02 06:42  

#1  Why not have a different representation of the paedo-prophet every day?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-10-02 06:02  

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