Posted on 02/13/2006 5:58:06 PM PST by jmc1969
Just heard on the local TV News...Australian cartoonist denies submission of cartoons, made via anonymous e-mail. Authorities investigating.
Abraham wasn't a Jew.
Oh, wow! What a prize!
The description of the "cartoon" did not arouse me to anger, or hilarity, or to any emotion that I would associate with cartoons.
What I got was ... sadness. To try to mock and make fun of such a serious calamity is just ... sad. It's like making fun of the Tsunami, or Afghanistan's earthquake.
I know it's intended to be disrespectful, but it just comes across as stupid.
If the Times ever runs an asshole of the year award Leunig should definitely be a winner. What a dipstick.
Hogan's Heroes was offensive to viewers in Boston 20+ years after the series ended but there is a difference between bad taste (or offensiveness) and prohibited works.
I could believe that antisemites in America still produce cartoons for their newsletters. Some proPalestinian war cartoons also have antisemetic themes. I know that the American left supports the Palestinian War (with some even supporting the use of suicide bombers) but I haven't seen the more extremist antisemetic cartoons in the barking moonbat newspapers. Then again, I don't look at them much either.
The website Irancartoons.com is an ad site, not a website.
Sounds like it might be a hoax after all.
Leunig denies entering Holocaust cartoon competition
By Emma Rodgers. Posted: Tuesday, February 14 2006 .
Reports that cartoonist Michael Leunig was the first to enter a contest set up by an Iranian newspaper for cartoons of the Holocaust are not true, he says.
It looks as if Leunig is a victim of a hoax, which he describes as a hurtful act.
"I've been set up horribly, maliciously and to me it denotes what it means to stand up against this conflict and this warlike sort of state the world is in and you know, it's difficult," he said.
Iranian newspaper Hamshahri set up the contest called, "The Boundaries of Western Freedom of Speech" as a reaction to the controversy surrounding the Mohammad cartoons.
A statement purporting to be from Leunig was also published by the newspaper, according to the Herald Sun, (the story has now been removed) which read: "I have had some difficulty getting this work published in my own country, and I believe it would help highlight the hypocrisy of the Wests' attitude to free speech if you were to publish it."
The cartoons, which Leunig has described as "a serious hoax" have now been removed, Hamshahri's editor said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200602/s1569315.htm
Pictures?
I've never seen a devil portrayed with blue wings.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sometimes referred to as the "Abrahamic religions", because of the role Abraham plays in their holy books and beliefs. In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, Abraham is described as a patriarch blessed by God (the Jewish people called him "Father Abraham"), and promised great things, father of the People of Israel through his son Isaac; the Muslims regard Ishmael as the father of the Arabs. In Islam, Abraham is considered to be one of the most important of the many prophets sent by God. In Christian belief, Abraham is a model of faith, and his intention to obey God by offering up Isaac is seen as a foreshadowing of God's offering of his son, Jesus. In Islamic belief, Abraham obeyed God by offering up Ishmael.
His original name was Abram (אַבְרָם "High/Exalted father/leader", Standard Hebrew Avram, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇrām); he was the foremost of the Biblical patriarchs. Later in life he went by the name Abraham. There is no contemporary mention of his life, and no source earlier than Genesis mentions him. He probably lived between 2166 BC and 1991 BC. According to the Jewish tradition, Abraham was born 1,948 years after creation and lived for 175 years, which would correspond to a life spanning from 1812 BCE to 1637 BCE.
but who's counting
I'll give it the old college try:
Presidetnt Ahmadinejad, Ted Rall and Cindy Sheehan jump off the Empire State Building. Who hit's the ground first?
Answer: Who cares?
see #27. Hold your horses.
Who knew blowing up our skyscrapers was an olive branch? And the Danes ruined it for us.
Since when do men use this kind of effeminate lingo?
It's a pile of sh*t is what it is, and the fact that these asswipes can run this kind of "contest" without the UN condeming it is indicative of the anti-semites that have the UN by the short hairs.
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Yes, he was Hebrew. Not a Jew. That came later, after the diaspora.
I think the point was that "Jews" (Those from the tribe of Judah) didn't exist until after Judah. Abraham was pre-judah by quite a bit.
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