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One is reminded of C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, in particular his essay about how the tears of the damned cannot break the joy of those who live before God--as 'it would allow Hell to *veto* Heaven.' So here. We cannot let the eternal offendability of the terminally wrong to deter us.
Soon even the most ill-informed male is going to understand what troublesome assholes Muslims can be in a Western society.
Now if the women would understand that if things don't go right, not only will they not be able to golf at Augusta; they also won't be able to drive, work outside of the home and they'd have to wear the Burka. Now for some, like Hillary that would be an improvement.
I'd forgotten about Li'l Abner. You're absolutely right. Al Capp would have ripped the Islamic terrorists to pieces. He would have been the nuclear cartoon option.
I see there's a lot of freakin' dhimmi cowards at WaPo. They celebrate cruficixes dunked in urine and portraits of the Mother Mary done in elephant dung as art but Allah forbid if ANY frank art which actually hits the nail on the head regarding the historical shortcomings of Islam. WaPo editors give me more even more reason to despise the lamestream media in general.
Thanks for the link, that was too much, and that guy really is a...well, Richard is a fitting name. Funny stuff.
I found that LFG comic while looking through the links of this one: Gone with the Blastwave. I'm a sucker for post-nuke anything.
Back on topic: I didn't find that Opus comic particularly offensive or funny. I agree with GhostMaker's sentiment, since when have newspaper comics been funny? Not that I would know, I've never had a newspaper subscription, I don't even own any birds.
Hate speech will not be tolerated, unless of course it is Muslim hate speech which is protected.
This guy in a Western country says that he will dance in Trafalgar Square if Iran Nukes Israel. Thus a lot of innocent people would die.
Imagine if Someone advocated that the black monolith that they circle during the Hajj should be nuked.
They believe that it is a sacred meteorite from the Garden of Eden given to Moses and ultimately to Mohammad. They believe that it cannot be destroyed.
Do you believe that anyone advocating nuking the thing would have their speech protected?
Funny and strange times we live in where it is personally safer to criticize the living Commander in Chief of the world's only and most powerful superpower than a dead 7th century pedophilic megalomaniac.
"...the Berkeley Breathed “Opus” cartoon... was exposed to Muslim staffers at The Washington Post ... to help inform the decision as to whether or not to run the cartoon. The “emotional” reaction of the staffers apparently helped sway an already “alarmed” contingent in the higher echelons of The Washington Post..."
That's an interesting take on journalistic responsibility. Let’s always give employees a veto over what we cover.
By the way, did they review coverage of the elephant dung Madonna, exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, with any Catholic staffers? Or “urine in a bottle” art works? No, I didn’t think so.
I can't believe so many newspapers didn't run that comic strip. This is what we get from the self-esteem movement, in which painful truths must not be spoken for fear of the damage they might do to delicate psyches. Gack.
Opus is a rare big nosed penguin. I read "Bloom County" from way back.
Me too. I remember when Opus married Lola Granola, and a newspaper headline in the strip read, "Opus marries Lola Granola, Diane Sawyer Shaves Head". Thought it was funny then.
I don't believe in big nosed penguins. I think that maybe Opus is ashamed of his puffin nature and is trying to cover it up. Maybe there's a quota against puffins? auks?
That photo of the group of (presumably) Muslims has the logo of the Liberal Democrats party behind them. For those of you who aren't aware, they're the third party in British politics whose policies are unimportant since they'll never get voted for in any meaningful number. They, as the photo suggests, attract a lot of these sorts of people. It's the universal Islam-far Left paradoxical alliance again. Nothing new, but still highly confusing.
Academia,Hollywood,Most Democrats and the MSM in this country are cowards. If its left up to them to defend this country our ancestors will all be praying toward mecca.
Yeah, but when TNOYF was known as Potfrey, zomb, one of the best pieces of satirical writing was the emergency call to the IDF from the UNFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon, asking them to redirect their bombing, and Dayamn, it is no longer in the blogosphere archives, so I can't have you read it, but the punchline is that the IDF redirected their bombing and finally destroyed the UNFIL bunkers...if only.
WaPo got a really cynical post from me on this subject. Though I had to attach it to a equally nasty comment about their using Jamie Goreilik (?) as an expert on the justice department. Then darn if I didn't see her yet again on PBS news.
I am sure every one is truly touched by all the emotion the Post put's into all it's editing, and it's stories of the wonders of Islam. I remember when I lived up there and the Post was our "home town" newspaper. Then it was great to be able to call up all the department's and let them know what I thought of them. Of course now I have digital phone so gee I can do it again almost for free!
Memo
To: Muslim members of the WAPO staff
Subject: Berkley Breathed Cartoon Strip
From: Rational Readers
WTC occurs, killing roughly 3,000 people. Muslims dance in the streets, pass out candy, in other words celebrate. A cartoonist draws a cartoon portraying a burqa'd up female in a mocking manner and you get all teary-eyed on us. Clue-the cartoon isn't real. The characters in the cartoon aren't real. Those nearly 3,000 people and the families they left behind, those are real. Your priorities are so skewed as to border on certifiable mental disorders. One more outburst like that and Nurse Ratchet will be rehired so as to dispense your daily medications.
Take two OTC pain killers and call us in the morning.
Hate speech will not be tolerated, unless of course it is Muslim hate speech which is protected.
This guy in a Western country says that he will dance in Trafalgar Square if Iran Nukes Israel. Thus a lot of innocent people would die.
Imagine if Someone advocated that the black monolith that they circle during the Hajj should be nuked.
They believe that it is a sacred meteorite from the Garden of Eden given to Moses and ultimately to Mohammad. They believe that it cannot be destroyed.
Do you believe that anyone advocating nuking the thing would have their speech protected?
Hmmm, Charles takes a dim view of anyone advocating turning that area of the evil house of saud into a very large glassy basin.
“Thank you, gracious Muslim staffers of The Washington Post, for joining me tonight. Before I start, let me share some good news: the Executive Board of The Washington Post has agreed to consider your demand that the entire building be rotated to face Mecca. It will require some effort, but I’m confident we can push it through.
Now that is good satiric writing.
I found that extremely amusing also.
Btw, a while back Charles had an ad for TNOYF so I clicked it. I fount it to be pretty funny.
Academia,Hollywood,Most Democrats and the MSM in this country are cowards. If its left up to them to defend this country our ancestors will all be praying toward mecca.
AMEN
(THIS, IMHO, is/has been/ever will be the center of the problem here)
Comics are funny now? They haven't been funny since Liberty Meadows dropped out of newspaper circulation.
"Get Fuzzy" is pretty good; but if you want any kind of quality or originality, you have to search the web and find the diamonds in the rough.
I just love "Get Fuzzy." I have all the collected cartoon books.
The funny thing is, that when it first came out, for about the first 6 months or maybe a year, I absolutely hated it.
Now it's my favorite comic, the one thing I really look forward to when reading the newspaper.
Or maybe I should say,"Look sporkward to." (Bad pun.)
While chewing on a monkey sandwich.
If you're a fan of the strip, you'll get it.
Sources told FOXNews.com that the strips were shown to Muslim staffers at The Washington Post to gauge their reaction, and they responded "emotionally" to the depiction of a woman dressed in traditional Muslim garb and espousing conservative Islamic views.
There was also considerable alarm over the strip at the highest echelons of The Washington Post Co., according to the sources.
Lago said she flagged some of the syndicate's newspaper clients for two reasons: because of the possibility that the jokes about Islam would be misconstrued and because of the sexual innuendo in the punchline.
I am having a hard time deciding if this is just an illustration of MSM cowardice, or an illustration of the Islamic infiltration the establishment media.
And since the two are not mutually exclusive, . . .
A lot of things wrong with society today are directly attributable to the fact that the people who make the laws are sexually maladjusted. -- from "I Seem To Be a Verb" by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1970.