Letters to the Editor
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Ludicrous
Laughable that someone would be offended by this strip. Lola isn't even a convincing muslim - if she was, she would have blown herself up right there (preferably in close proximity to children, but I guess Allah willing, you have to take what you can get). All in the name of the Religion of Peace, of course.
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KitchenGirl,
That strip was largely received as an attack on Islam, and apparantly B.C creator Johnny Hart (recently deceased) was something of a right-winger, who used the strip for his political ideologies more blatantly in his later years. I have to say this all conjecturally, because I haven't read the strip in years, and know about the incident only at second hand. But your casual dismissal does seem to be offbase.
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a B.C. strip i remember
caveman #1: i just found a new animal, what should i name it? caveman #2: what are its characteristics? caveman #1: it eats ants. caveman #2: why not call it an eatanter? - maybe you have to be a little geeky to love this as much as i do, but i think it's really funny - funny enough at least to avoid the lowest circle of hell.
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Opus - Threat to entire world!
Western humor is now a direct threat to the very roots of Islam. Anything that can't survive a bit of mirth is too fragile to exist in the first place.
If the Washington comPost's Islamic staffers are dismayed and insulted by a "sex joke"(?) involving their deepest held beliefs, how must the Catholics and other infidel religions seek redress for the giggles that come at their expense?
Why is the culture of our fathers the expendible entity in every issue taking today's stage? Why are boots quaking at every turn when it comes to Islam? The spinelessness displayed by today's media lends zero credibility to the very notion of a "free press".
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Opus Rocks!
Good to see Opus can get some people upset!
I think that's an abstinence innuendo at the end of the strip, not a sexual one, since Lola is not going to be intimate with Steve unless he converts and marries her!
Also, I think it's absurd to read anything into the B.C. strip - Hart always had the traditional crescent on the outhouse in his strip - but there's no star even though he could have easily put one beside the moon if he wanted to make a point.
It's the Star and Crescent, not the crescent by itself, that's associated with Islam. But many Muslims would say Islam has no symbols because it is against any form of idolatry. The Crescent and Moon was the symbol of the Ottoman Empire, and is used on the flags of many predominantly Muslim countries today.
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Why are the newspapers afraid?
1. Radical fundamentalists usually stick to blowing up abortion clinics. Radical Islamists cause riots when they see a picture they don't like and fly planes into buildings.
2. Catholics condemn, Islamists raise Ji'had
3. Islam still publicly beat and whip their own in masks in city streets....didn't they do that in medieval Europe as well?
Anyway I digress, as long as a radical group is willing to sacrifice their own people and treat the lives of their own people as fodder for the "Holy War" I would be afraid of them as well.
It just shows which newspapers have a pair. Sorry if that sexual joke offended anyone......actually no I am not.
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Washington Post pulls OPUS cartoon
It seems the writer is implying the Muslim Community is not capable of understanding cartoons. That maybe (God forbid) they are ignorant. There was nothing offensive about the Opus cartoon. Lighten up. The Muslin community needs to be exposed to life in the US. It won’t hurt them. It might even give them some much needed insight into humor.
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x-treme reaction
It would seem to me, that no one was worried that the Christian masses (from either the right or the left) would riot over the depiction of Jerry Falwell as spending an eternity in irkdom rather than The Kingdom due to the perception that he disliked so many humans and their human frailties.
The fear, in this moment, regarding this thing, is that someone would do something regretable and shocking to us because we dare to laugh, is truly the triumph of the terrorists. They have lost their ability to laugh at themselves or see the humorous side of their religion. I am going to go home tonight and watch the final stunt on Jackass 2. If for no other reason that to laugh at a bunch of jack-asses make fun of a subject that no one wants to touch; that of a bunch of jack-asses scaring the crap out of so many.
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Can a coerced press be a "free press?"
It seems that the left is in denial regarding the existence of violence in this world. It denies that there are those whose culture makes violence an acceptable tool. Yet, it seems to defer to the threat of violence whenever confronted.
Its convictions seem to be moderated by the need to appease, and it cloaks its fear by posing as it were unwilling to offend as gauged by responses of Muslim employees, whose fragile psyches apparently require protection from distressful allusions to reality.
The only distinction that offending Muslims seems to have is that it provokes their predilection for violence, which the editors seem to be averse to arousing.
If this "free press" is coerced into avoiding confrontation, then all of its pretensions regarding the viability and importance of a free press in a free society are bunkum.
You would hope that the editors would utter "mea culpa" and reverse their decision, publishing the material with an explanation of their demonstrated cowardice, and their subsequent reestablishment of their integrity, by reversing an unsupportable decision.
Until then, they stand identified as dissemblers and poltroons.
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Opus Radical Islamist
Did you hear any threats from right wing Christian Fundamentalists regarding Jerry Fallwell? Did the clothed Amish protest at the Post's front door. No. We Christians are the most resilient of the U.S. populace. Many of us really like Opus, and a few of us even own Opus dolls. We are a hearty people and love a good laugh, even when it is at ourselves. Lighten up.