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2006-02-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Anti Danish cartoons' rallies turn into fiasco for the regime

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Posted by tipper 2006-02-07 10:30|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Has anyone seen these cartoons? Many bloggers have taken them off of their site. And in order to view them on Jyllands-Posten you have to be a member.

Posted by ilikechocolate 2006-02-07 11:49|| 2006-02-07 11:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ...FWIW, Fox News showed a couple of them on Chris Wallace's show on Sunday - was amazed by that.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-02-07 12:29|| 2006-02-07 12:29|| Front Page Top

#3 wikipedia has good up-to-date info on the saga here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons

the best thing is they give a commentary on the cartoons as some have writing in Danish/domestic in-jokes that aren't clear to someone outside Denmark.

Those explanations are about halfway down.

But they don't show the cartoons. For that, you can go here:

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698

and scroll halfway down the page.

Little Green Footballs had a slideshow of the images, too, but you'll have to search the site:

www.littlegreenfootballs.com

happy cartooning!

Posted by anon1 2006-02-07 12:33|| 2006-02-07 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Tim Blair has them here. Or go over to Michelle Malkin's.

That Wikipedia entry does have the cartoons, apparently as presented on the original Jyllands-Posten page. But they're awfully small and hard to read.

It does have a good description of the in-jokes. I have often heard these cartoons described as "crude", "obnoxious", or "unfunny". They are nothing of the sort. Some of them require cultural background to understand. Others are apparently more subtle than people give them credit for.

For example, my least favorite is the weird crescent-star-ice cream cone (or whatever) line drawing. This cartoon mocks Islam's treatment of women, and yet does not actually depict Mohammed, or indeed any human figure. Is it still blasphemous if there is no discernable human figure? [Trick question: The answer is, "Everything is blasphemy, unless we say it's not."] I think there's a similar point made in the one with the censored eyes.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-02-07 13:23|| 2006-02-07 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 400? Hell, you could probably get a crowd that big to throw stones at the Austrian embassy in Albuquerque. That's peanuts.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-07 13:25|| 2006-02-07 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Couldn't. No Austrian Embassy in Albuquerque. Now as to a cock fight... [we'll leave that one to your imagination].

Posted by Unelet Slaitch9798 2006-02-07 15:42|| 2006-02-07 15:42|| Front Page Top

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