For its front page, the newspaper even commissioned its own image, showing a peeved Muhammad sitting on a cloud with Buddha, a Jewish God and a Christian God, who says: "Don’t complain Muhammad, we’ve all been caricatured here."The French initiative seems to have set off a Domino effect. According to Charles Bremmer "[o]ther papers in Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy [have] joined France Soir in publishing some of the cartoons."
Do enjoy the Jyllands-Posten cartoons that ticked off the Mohammedans.
The following got two thumbs up from me:
I wonder if the 9-11 hijackers made it before stocks ran out.
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"I'm going to [make fun of] what I want, when I want, who I want!"
-Bender B. Rodriguez, upon defying his programming. Quote slightly edited.
OT, but I can't see your email...
Just found your blog via your essay on pareidolia; to the examples you have, I offer an addition which is - well - apt given the current brouhaha: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1700465,00.html
Looks like it didn't fit, so try this.
Both "Allah" and "Muhammad" are on the same fish? That indeed is most interesting. I wonder how much force fitting they had to do to see these particular words. As for the list in my essay, unfortunately I had (in my shortsightedness) limited it to "instances of simulacra of Christian personalities." Else, I'd certainly add this one.
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