U.S. Newspapers Decline to Publish 'Muhammad' Cartoons

Editor and Publisher ^ | 02/03/06 | Joe Strupp

[Brilliant]

It was a given that the US newspapers would not publish these cartoons. Publishing classified info is more their speed.

[SlowBoat407]

U.S. Newspapers Decline to Publish 'Muhammad' Cartoons

There, I fixed it.

[OldFriend]

Ah, but a crucifix in a jar of urine, that's just fine for our media.

[clintonh8r]

PC cowards, pure and simple....

[muawiyah]

No one is inflaming Moslems ~ they've always been that way.

What they are attempting is to force their belief off on you. Amazingly, or maybe not so amazingly, you turn out to be an easy target.

You will love prayers 5 times a day.

[blueminnesota]

How about showing solidarity so that the Danes aren't out there manning the ramparts of free speech alone?

[nmh]

Isn't it amazing how they'll bash the heck out of Bush without apology but when it come to this, mum is the word. Maybe they're busy thinking of more Christian bashing shows and headlines.

[Publius6961]

Doug Clifton, editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, agreed that the offensive nature precluded running the cartoons. "It has become a part of great angst and I don't see any reason to run it, you can just describe it," he said of the cartoon images. "I don't see a need to insert ourselves in that fight."

I have had it with sand maggots, real or surrogate.
I will not have killers defining for me what is offensive.

Are there any Freeper printers?
I am ready to contribute $100 for any project intended to get 1 million of these cartoons printed and distributed to the "free" newsracks. It wouldn't take many more contributions like this one to make the plan a reality.

They want a challenge?
Let's give them one.

[Chanticleer]

Yes, but television companies can air stuff like Britney Spear's Cruci-fixins role. Christians get angry and threaten to boycott, and we get vilified. But Muslims don't even need to threaten violence (it is just somehow feared or expected), and they get respect. Hypocrisy.

[blueminnesota]

I recommend stamping the cartoons on our "aid" to the Middle East. See if they're too proud to pick it up then. And posting it over all border crossings and airport terminals.

[Lunatic Fringe]

This is the only one I've seen. I want to see the others as well.

[Lunatic Fringe]

[VOA]

bump

[TWhiteBear]

Think of all the poor wussy PC editors worrying about how the FR types will be trying to slip this cartoon into their 'papers'. Actually, since many of the PC papers defame Jesus, and Jesus is a Prophet of Islam , the papers that have taken such a twofaced position have already insulted Islam. Heads may roll in the pressroom, so to speak.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

There is no devil but Allah, and Mohammed is his porkchop.

[hollywood]

BFD! Who needs/reads newspapers anymore, anyway. The cartoons are all over the internet. No need to close the barn door now, PC-wimps; all the animals are outside. Freedom of speech, at algore-invented speed.

[the final gentleman]

" In mid-1989, there was an uproar over the work of another photographer, Andres Serrano, whose "Piss Christ" -- a murky, moody photograph of the crucified Christ submerged in the artist's urine -- had been partially funded by a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts"
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You of the press who wrote endlessly about the right of Andres Serrano to display his urine art in our national galleries, come forth now and print in your paper these cartoons.

Or are you cowards?

[hollywood]

Actually, if you dig deep enough, you'll find that Downie, along with all the other placaters, are really scared sheep-less regarding this issue. To prove my point, if those who didn't like the crucifix-in-urine display started beheading people, you'd see those types of 'art-work' displays getting yanked from museums and such. Some people are just too afraid to stand up for freedom of speech.

[old and tired]

Does anybody have a list of media outlets - newspapers and networks - who showed Robert Mapplethorpe's work where he put the crucified Christ in urine? I've been googling like mad, but have been unable to find this out. Personally, I don't think there is an exact correlation in that Mapplethorpe's work was intended to insult and denigrate Christians and Christianity and the Mohammad cartoons are making a legitimate point. However, if these same media are the ones who showed that Mapplethorpe garbage then they are showing themselves to be cowards.

[LasVegasMac]

Downie of the Wahsington Post is the same a**hole who approved publication of a cartoon mocking a American soldier who was a double amputee.

I guess he is only sensitive to Muslim and anti-American interests.

Downie is one butt head that deserves a barrage of Freeper e-mail.

What horses pa-toot.

LVM