We're far too quick to see insult in humor where none exists

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 12/04/03 | Kathleen Parker

[Pedantic_Lady]

Gawd, this HAS to be a joke...no rational person would get in a froth over a stupid B.C. comic strip!

[b4its2late]

Ping!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Has Marshall Blonsky ever had occasion to gently close an outhouse door?!

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[Always Right]

Therefore, the reader suggested, the strip — otherwise unfunny in his view — was a veiled attack on Islam.

The way I see it is that is strip was either a piss poor effect at humor or a piss poor effect at slamming Islam. Either way the comic stunk.

[Damocles]

 

Unfunny?  Sure.  Demeaning?  Are you out of your freakin' mind?!

[Fawnn]

Random thoughts on this post:

Kathleen Parker seems like a sensible person (who gets it!).

Johnny Hart is a talented person who's had -- and continues to have -- a well-deserved, long career.

Liberals simply can't tolerate commercial success when it's achieved by a Christian. (I think that's one of the terms of their pacts with the devil.)

Anyone who's never SLAMmed an outhouse door has obviously never had to use one.

Go Johnny, go Johnny, go Johnny, go! (pun intended) ;)

[GSWarrior]

I once saw the Virgin Mary in a pita bread.

[BlueNgold]

This lady has obviously never had to run to an outhouse on a cold night. Taking the time to gently close an outhouse door almost never happens, and darned sure not at night when all you want to do is finish and get back in by the fire.

[Just another Joe]

No joke.
This isn't even from the onion.

Just some 'sensitive nancys' getting their pantyhose in a wad.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Evidently Johnny Hart is a Jew-hater too...

http://www.adl.org/presrele/DiRaB_41/3795_41.asp

[Focault's Pendulum]

I once saw the Virgin Mary in a pita bread.

I got ya beat. I once saw A+Bert at a Synagogue

[Pedantic_Lady]

Just some 'sensitive nancys' getting their pantyhose in a wad.

Or their BVDs :-)

[Hodar]

I once saw the Virgin Mary in a pita bread.

Are you sure it wasn't the Holy Toast?

[ClearCase_guy]

The whole thing kind of reminds me of a man talking about some ugly, mangy mutt he saw down at the junkyard. Another fellow walks up to him, punches him in the face and shouts, "Are you talking about my Mother??"

If you take offense at something which is not directed at you, you reveal a little bit about how you perceive your own situation. In the case of this comic strip, I would say that some Moslems feel that their religion is like a smelly outhouse, but take offense when they think non-Moslems feel that way also.

[No Blue States]

"What if Hart were poking fun at Islam?"

So.

[Sunshine Sister]

No one except the ever so sensitive practicers of the religion of peace!

[k2blader]

So *that's* what the fuss was about.

I'd seen the comic strip earlier and was clueless as to how it could possibly offend anyone.

I hope this incident will make it obvious to the more politically hesitant how completely fanatical and paranoid CAIR is.

[dwd1]

Tripping over pebbles when there are mountains to climb....