Washington Post Pulls "Where's Muhammed?" Cartoon

[chanel]

An award-winning cartoonist is seeing red after editors at The Washington Post and other newspapers pulled a "very tame" cartoon that alluded to the Prophet Muhammad.

Wiley Miller, whose "Non Sequitur" comic strip has won several national awards and appears daily in roughly 800 newspapers, said he was not surprised by the decision to yank the single-panel, "Where's Muhammad?"cartoon because even the word itself is such a "dicey thing" nowadays.

The cartoon, which was originally submitted in August and had been scheduled to appear in newspapers nationwide on Oct. 3, depicts a lively, seek-and-find-esque park scene complete with a giraffe, a skateboarder, a cyclist, frolicking children and a large hippopotamus. An accompanying caption reads: "Picture Book Title Voted Least Likely to Ever Find a Publisher … Where's Muhammad?"

Miller, 59, of Maine, said the cartoon was intended to be a satirical reference to the global furor that followed the 2006 decision by a Danish newspaper to solicit depictions of Muhammad.

Ned Martel, the newspaper's Style editor, said he decided to yank the cartoon after conferring with others, including Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, because it "seemed a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Cartoonist Seeing Red After 'Muhammad' Cartoon Yanked - FoxNews.com

Sounds like the Post is full of a bunch of bedwetting, Islamophobic pussies to me.

 

[ekrem]

Ned Martel from Washington Post: "a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Agree with that.

 

[chanel]

Of course you would. Why do Muslims not understand satire?

 

[Si modo]

Ned Martel from Washington Post: "a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Agree with that.

Where IS Muhammed in that cartoon?

Damn, you get offended at the slightest thing.

Idiot.

An award-winning cartoonist is seeing red after editors at The Washington Post and other newspapers pulled a "very tame" cartoon that alluded to the Prophet Muhammad.

Wiley Miller, whose "Non Sequitur" comic strip has won several national awards and appears daily in roughly 800 newspapers, said he was not surprised by the decision to yank the single-panel, "Where's Muhammad?"cartoon because even the word itself is such a "dicey thing" nowadays.

The cartoon, which was originally submitted in August and had been scheduled to appear in newspapers nationwide on Oct. 3, depicts a lively, seek-and-find-esque park scene complete with a giraffe, a skateboarder, a cyclist, frolicking children and a large hippopotamus. An accompanying caption reads: "Picture Book Title Voted Least Likely to Ever Find a Publisher … Where's Muhammad?"

Miller, 59, of Maine, said the cartoon was intended to be a satirical reference to the global furor that followed the 2006 decision by a Danish newspaper to solicit depictions of Muhammad.

Ned Martel, the newspaper's Style editor, said he decided to yank the cartoon after conferring with others, including Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, because it "seemed a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Cartoonist Seeing Red After 'Muhammad' Cartoon Yanked - FoxNews.com

Sounds like the Post is full of a bunch of bedwetting, Islamophobic pussies to me.

The irony of this cartoon being pulled is amazing.

 

[ekrem]

Damn, you get offended at the slightest thing.

I did not say I am offended. What I said was, that I agree with the reason the WP-guys refused to publish the Cartoon.

Of course you would. Why do Muslims not understand satire?

That is a picture a 10 year old child could draw, and an adult just adds the word Muhammad on it. Totally unrelated to each other. Where is the satire in this? There is no logic in that cartoon.

Ned Martel from Washington Post: "a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

 

[Si modo]

"Where is the satire in this?"



Yes, Chanel, why do Muslims not understand satire?

 

[ekrem]

Yes, Chanel, why do Muslims not understand satire?

Washington Post editorial board also does not get the satire.
Explain me in your own words, where the satire is in that cartoon.
Maybe you'll convince me.

 

[Si modo]

 

[ekrem]

No wonder US companies are outsourcing jobs given your rhetorical skills.

 

[xotoxi]

Here's my cartoon:

Where's the "Where's Muhammed" Cartoon?

 

[jeffrockit]

Damn, you get offended at the slightest thing.

I did not say I am offended. What I said was, that I agree with the reason the WP-guys refused to publish the Cartoon.

Of course you would. Why do Muslims not understand satire?

That is a picture a 10 year old child could draw, and an adult just adds the word Muhammad on it. Totally unrelated to each other. Where is the satire in this? There is no logic in that cartoon.

Ned Martel from Washington Post: "a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Freedom of speech, learn it, love it, support it.
No fatwas over the piss Christ
Piss Christ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or the feces Virgin Mary
Feces virgin mary - Google Search

Can you say hypocrisy?
How about double standard?
No spin, just be honest.

 

[Madeline]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/religion-and-ethics/136931-more-islamaphobia.html

We need a thread merge here, Mods.....

 

[Si modo]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/religion-and-ethics/136931-more-islamaphobia.html

We need a thread merge here, Mods.....

Playing mod, now?

Your delusions know no bounds.

 

[Madeline]

 

[midcan5]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnAsE1DBya8[/ame]

 

[Woyzeck]

That's actually a pretty funny cartoon. Shame it got pulled. Or that any cartoon concerning Muhammad gets pulled.

 

[Annie]

Damn, you get offended at the slightest thing.

I did not say I am offended. What I said was, that I agree with the reason the WP-guys refused to publish the Cartoon.

Of course you would. Why do Muslims not understand satire?

That is a picture a 10 year old child could draw, and an adult just adds the word Muhammad on it. Totally unrelated to each other. Where is the satire in this? There is no logic in that cartoon.

Ned Martel from Washington Post: "a deliberate provocation without a clear message."

Sure there is, it's intolerance:

 

[Annie]

"Where is the satire in this?"



Yes, Chanel, why do Muslims not understand satire?

It does lose something when it needs to be explained.

 

[Annie]

Yes, Chanel, why do Muslims not understand satire?

Washington Post editorial board also does not get the satire.
Explain me in your own words, where the satire is in that cartoon.
Maybe you'll convince me.

No, like Yale and others, the WaPo editors really believe that some of your fellow travelers mean what they say. It's called fear and appeasement.

 

[Sheldon]

Yes, Chanel, why do Muslims not understand satire?

Washington Post editorial board also does not get the satire.
Explain me in your own words, where the satire is in that cartoon.
Maybe you'll convince me.

Two reasons.

First, it's based off the Where's Waldo books. If you're not familiar with them, it's a series of books where each page shows a crowded social scene, and the reader is supposed to find a skinny emo guy in a red-white-stripped shirt hiding somewhere in the scene. I used to have all of them, and found him on every page.

So the satire here is that, since Muhammed can never been shown, the reader would spend their time looking for something that's not even on the page.

Second, like Annie pointed out, is the subtitle of a publisher never printing this kind of book... for two reasons. The first reason is the one above; it would amount to a practical joke on the readers. And the second reason is because almost anything that could possibly be construed as not praising an invisible Mo' would attract death threats from some psychopathic Muslims.

Not as funny if you have to explain it, though.