Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Friday, February 03, 2006

Louder Than Words

Via Jeff at Speedkill, here's a site that reprints the 12 cartoons depicting Muhammed by various Danish cartoonists (complete with English translation) which has led to all this. I found the first one by Kurt Westergaard in poor taste, but would I find a cartoon of, say, Jesus wielding a machine gun equally tasteless? I don't know; I'd probably interpret the latter example as being a comment about the disparity between Jesus' message of love and the reality of hate many Christians practice. Overall the cartoons seem a lot milder than I'd been led to believe, so I think it's worth it for people to look at them and judge for yourselves.

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