Cartoons

Recently cartoons have become a weapon against muslims, or so they say. Although I believe some respect is never a bad thing, cartoons pretty much make fun of eveything and eveyone, Mahommed or muslims are not excluded. If everybody who has been targeted by cartoonist took to the riffles there woulnd't be riffles enough.

Here's my cartoon selection for the day:

Great cartoon about Darfur, it kind of says almost all, by Mohammed Raees

Here's one of the sources of discontempt. I found a slideshow of all the original cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten by the Little Green Footballs weblog. Here it is. All the cartoons can also be viewed here, at the Brussels Journal.

One on opposite sides. In Mohamed Al Ashi homepage.

An another one that I took from the great blog www.eyranian.net.

Just another one. I've been at home sick for almost a week, needed to post a few fun things.

As for all the cartoon controversy, I still feel I should say that freedom of expression is as much to respect as religious beliefs. I believe this all controversy against the Danes of all people has been orchestrated by some islamic groups. How else could there be such a big gap between their publication and all the unrest? Some groups are just on the look for excuses for violence and hatred. As i've heard a journalist say, we should not live by their ideals, as they want to force us to, but by what we believe in, those ideals of freedom and democracy that took so many centuries and lives to build.

Fortunately newspapers around the world are not intimidated by the threats and displays of violence. Blogs aren't either. There is no way people can be silenced these days. And if you don't like it, you are always free to turn the page, read other newspaper, visit some other website. Choice is something that we fortunately have today.