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Monday, August 27, 2007

Selective censorship

 
Ed Morrissey reports on the latest example of dhimmitude - some newspapers' refusal to publish yesterday's version of Opus, the cartoon done by Berke Breathed, because it involves Steve Dallas's girlfriend, Lola Granola, deciding to become a radical Islamicist. As Morrissey reports, they had not problem publishing his strip that made fun of a dead Jerry Falwell, but they draw the line at anything that might offend Muslims.
If anything, today's strip is less about the religious belief of Islam than last week's was about Christianity's tenets, and yet, the newspapers found it necessary to protect themselves from this strip and not the other. Why is that?

Oh, yeah -- because radical Islamists react with violence rather than rational objections. And the newspapers, in all their collective courage, can't find it within themselves to let a satirist do his work where it is most needed.
Correction - his name is Berkeley Breathed, not Berke.

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Ed Morrissey reports on the latest example of dhimmitude - some newspapers' refusal to publish yesterday's version of Opus, the cartoon done by Berke Breathed, because it involves Steve Dallas's girlfriend, Lola Granola, deciding to become a radical Islamicist. As Morrissey reports, they had not problem publishing his strip that made fun of a dead Jerry Falwell, but they draw the line at anything that might offend Muslims.
If anything, today's strip is less about the religious belief of Islam than last week's was about Christianity's tenets, and yet, the newspapers found it necessary to protect themselves from this strip and not the other. Why is that?

Oh, yeah -- because radical Islamists react with violence rather than rational objections. And the newspapers, in all their collective courage, can't find it within themselves to let a satirist do his work where it is most needed.
Correction - his name is Berkeley Breathed, not Berke.

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