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Mocking Radical Islam
We should be doing more, not less, to mock radical Islam. Here is a great cartoon from Cox and Forkum.
Here’s the story that prompted it: Washington Post Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam:
A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.The installment did not appear in the Post’s print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The same will hold true for the upcoming Sept. 2 strip, which is a continuation of the plotline.
Mocking Christians? No problemo. Mock radical Islam? Problemo.