Al Jazeera cartoon on the Pope

Aljazeera ^ | September 18, 2006

[Ronaldus Magnus]

I must respectfully disagree NYer, I think it's kind of cute! I like the way the music switches over to synthesized electric guitar when Pope Benedict starts shooting the doves. Direct link to the flash animation here (where it can be saved and archived):

Al-jazeera Animation

[tongue-tied]

LOL...off with your head! then.

okay okay....evil cartoonists then. Kill evil cartoonists.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

We see cartoons like this about Christianity and we either shrug it off or even laugh.

They see cartoons like that about Islam and they declare war, destroy property, murder Nuns, behead hostages and in general, go completely insane.

[weegee]

Islamic humor is more subtle than German humor.

[Ruth A.]

Of course, were the Pope replaced by Mohammad, then nobody would run the cartoon.

[weegee]

It was a perversion of Christian doctrine. Its vitality and endurance soon gave it the appearance of a new religion, but those who were contemprary with its rise saw it for what it was—not a denial, but an adaptation and a misuse, of the Christian thing. It differed from most (not from all) heresies in this, that it did not arise within the bounds of the Christian Church. The chief heresiarch, Mohammed himself, was not, like most hersiarchs, a man of Catholic birth and doctrine to begin with. He sprang from pagans. But that which he taught was in the main Catholic doctrine, oversimplified. It was the great Catholic world—on the frontiers of which he lived, whose influence was all around him and whose territories he had known by travel—which inspired his convictions. He came of, and mixed with, the degraded idolaters of the Arabian wilderness, the conquest of which had never seemed worth the Romans' while...

It's why I say it is a religion of AN anti-Christ if not THE anti-Christ as it is the only major faith outside of Christianity that acknowledges the existence of Jesus Christ while denying His divinity, His death, and His resurrection.

It leads the flock astray. It may have the "look" of a new religion but actually it is a political system of rule.

[AnAmericanMother]

Hey, pretty good shooting with a pistol grip and no top rib . . .

. . . but he's gotta quit using No. 1 buck . . .

( . . . do we get to go riot now? . . . )

[AnAmericanMother]

Have his gunsmith inlet a medal of St. Elmo or St. Gabriel Possenti into the stock. Doesn't rattle as much when you swing on the target!

(my mare has a St. George medal on her bridle)

[Oratam]

I remember reading in an excellent (and no doubt, out-of-print book) that Mohammed, as a result of his travels to Christian cities as a merchant and trader, became fed up with the learned exchanges on the nature of God then being hashed out in the seventh century East.

Arguments over the nature of the Trinity (the relationship of the Son to the Father and the Holy Spirit to them both) and Jesus Christ (Human and/or Divine) proved too much for him so he settled the matter by declaring "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet."

[JoeFromSidney]

While Mohammed might not have come from within the Catholic Church to form his heresy, he fit the description of heresiarchs someone has made: "Most heresies start below the belt."

[rawcatslyentist]

>"They see cartoons like that about Islam and they '' go completely insane."

When you bang your head against the ground 5x a day while inhailing the odors of the koranus in front of you. You dont have far to go!

[Right Wing Assault]

How come everything is in Arabic except for "Blam"?

They probably can't figure out a word for BLAM in Arabic.

Now if we made this cartoon, it would be one of their mullahs telling Muzzles to blow up crowds of women and children. Then it would show them doing it. It would be so hilarious in a Muslim way.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Islamics appear to be missing the wit and humor gene. 6 posted on 09/18/2006 4:56:01 PM EDT by Mr. Mojo

The understatement and irony might escape them.

[Jeff Gordon]

The cartoon is silly. The Pope would jam the muzzle of his shotgun into the ground.

[Right Wing Assault]

Really? It seems to me that Islam is to Catholicism as Pencil is to Airplane.

[tob2]

All this uproar about a quote; not the Pope's own words or feelings, just a quote from someone else! So much for the Religion of Peace.

[Oratam]

My first reaction is how perfectly it expresses the frustration that the Muslim leadership must feel at all the time they wasted with John Paul II as his successor doesn't appear to be so easily impressed -- or taken in.

(With all due respect to the late John Paul II, he bent over backwards for Islam and see how they repay his kindness. They must have been laughing themselves silly after each meeting with him.)

[tob2]

Yup, there does not seem to be any humor at all in the Muslim world. Feel sorry for them; it would not hurt for them to lighten up a bit.

[tob2]

So subtle you can't find it.

[Dr.Deth]

Islamic humor is more subtle than German humor.

I'm not convinced that either exist...