Comments on: Everybody draw Mohammed Day

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:17:35 +0000

I might harbor a very slight respect for the view of Muslims that their religious sensibilities shouldn’t be ruffled if any of them had the slightest inclination to extend that courtesy to anyone else. But the spew of vicious and overt anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism all over the Arab world, and to a lesser but real extent in the west, continues without even a hint that Muslims shouldn’t ask for what they aren’t willing to offer to others.

Arab Muslim culture in particular seems to lack almost completely any empathy for anyone else or the idea that such empathy ought to be cultivated. It’s entirely a one-way street.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:39:33 +0000

After the Dave Brown cartoon, which showed Ariel Sharon eating a dead Palestinian child, won the British Political Cartoonists Society award about 5 years ago, I asked Tim Benson, President of the organization, to show me just one cartoon drawn by a member of the Society which portrayed Arafat in a similar fashion. He could not do so. Later, on a visit to Canada, when asked why British cartoonists don’t draw cartoons about Islam, he replied, “They would face death, wouldn’t they?”. He added, “Jews don’t issue fatwas”.

By: annoyinglittletwerp

annoyinglittletwerp — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:18:02 +0000

Stantis is a conservative cartoonist.
I’m disappoint that he refused to take a stand for free expression.