Washington Post Pulls "Where's Muhammed?" Cartoon

[chanel]

Editorial cartoons are supposed to make you think. And that one was spot on.

"Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld appeared on "Fox News Watch" Saturday to ask, "Why is it that the media keeps reminding us that we shouldn’t exaggerate the threat of a small group of radicals, but then completely changes tact when it comes to their own personal safety?"

Look, the media can’t have it both ways. They cannot criticize the public for concerns over Islam and then pull this stunt over a fear they may get stabbed in front of a Starbucks. If their governing principle in the newsroom is fear, then they should admit it and get the hell off our backs for feeling pretty much the same way.

Read more: Greg Gutfeld Bashes WaPo For Pulling Mohammed Cartoon | NewsBusters.org

 

[Lonestar_logic]

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.

Yep, a bunch of cowards.

 

[Madeline]

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

It's hard to believe the same newspaper that published Woodward and Bernstein's "Deep Throat" articles lacks the guts to publish a cartoon ridiculing the Islamic phobia about drawing images of Mohammed.

washingtonpost.com – Watergate, Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein

Katherine Graham must be rolling over in her grave.

Katharine Graham 1917-2001 - washingtonpost.com

 

[Si modo]

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

It's hard to believe the same newspaper that published Woodward and Bernstein's "Deep Throat" articles lacks the guts to publish a cartoon ridiculing the Islamic phobia about drawing images of Mohammed.

washingtonpost.com – Watergate, Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein

Katherine Graham must be rolling over in her grave.

Katharine Graham 1917-2001 - washingtonpost.com

What's the differrence, in your head, between 'Islamic phobia" and 'Islamophobia'? You've used both terms.