Letters to the Editor
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Missed the point
I don't see how this could be taken to be offensive to Muslims. I don't mean Muslims are overreacting, assuming they even care; I mean the newspapers knee-jerked: Comic strip about burqas. Hmm, he must be making fun of burqas and therefore, by extension, making fun of Muslims.
This cartoon, as I see it, is about our shallow idea that everything we do is good and true and if another culture does not emulate us, well, we've got to show them the light.
And it's about the ridiculous notion that a guy insisting on seeing his hot girlfriend in a hot bikini is somehow a freedom fighter.
Notice that the guy doesn't even notice that nothing has changed and his girlfriend is continuing to do as she wishes.
Anyway, Joan Walsh is right to refuse credit for showing courage.