[Fintan]

Of course, it was just fine to dance in the streets on 9/11...

[Snowy]

That's funny! I don't get the filthy Inky, because it is such a rag. Maybe I'll have to reconsider. :)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, sometimes the truth hurts... sometimes the truth hurts a lot... The cartoon isn't really funny, but it IS accurate, from what I understand...

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Nothing wrong with that except you don't see Hillary hiding under the cartoon figures skirt, and no mention of the FALN16

[Johnny Shear]

Yes it's offensive to condemn an entire religion of 1.6 billion people like this...Even if it does make a point (A true point) about their fringe elments. It's bigoted.

And I'm sure that will be a minority opinion on this thread.

[PhilipFreneau]

Auth's cartoon was much too tolerant of Islam. First it implied it is a religion, when, in fact, it is a cult. Second, it did not even mention that Mohammed was a false prophet.

[Sender]

I think this is hilarious! While political cartoonists in major papers across America slander Bush, Republicans, and the NRA on a daily basis with no fear of repercussions, now they have done gone and stepped on the toes of the prophet. Wonder if they're nervous in the newsroom?

[TLBSHOW]

Islam is the Enemy!

[MissAmericanPie]

When Christianity or any other religion promotes jihad then everyone should feel free to condemn and/or print cartoons of the fact.

Islam is not so much a religion as it is a radical, bully, cult whose doctrine changes to fit the situation, and strength of numbers. Few numbers they make nice, large numbers they make jihad world wide.

A snake you can respect, a disease you don't, you kill it before it multiplies.

[aruanan]

His cartoon underlined the reality of most of the Islamic world, past and present. And while there have been nominally-Christian governments that have engaged in inquisitions and nominally-Christian nations that have engaged in pogroms against non-Christians, such behavior is not prescribed behavior in the New Testament for Christians (in fact, it is specifically prohibited). Attacking the unbeliever, the infidel, is, though, prescribed behavior in the Koran for Muslims and has been, from the very beginning, very enthusiastically engaged in every Muslim nation on the face of the earth.

Just because a number of people called Muslims don't engage in the behavior doesn't mean that it's not part and parcel of the religion. It just means that those people are aberrant. Though this is a type of aberrancy that should be encouraged, it doesn't mean that it reflects the core values of Islam. It does not.

[Cacique]

ping

[buccaneer81]

Christians have developed (and used) weapons capable of destroying entire cities at once while declaring themselves the only people responsible enough to possess them.

Uh, yeah, and their point is...?

[savedbygrace]

I've quoted this here before, but Mark Twain once said or wrote:

The man who complains when a certain subject is preached is like when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs. The one that yelps is the one that got hit.

[steve-b]

I highly doubt that the Inquirer would publish Mr. Auth's cartoon if he had drawn a picture of a priest saying "Catholicism is tolerant - tolerant of priests who rape and molest children," or a rabbi saying "Judaism is tolerant - tolerant of soldiers attacking teenage boys armed only with rocks, tolerant of settlements dispossessing Palestinian land, tolerant of assassination of political leaders...."

Unfortunately for Mr. Hasan's argument, Catholics who do not tolerate paedophile priests and Jews who do not tolerate proactive force by the Israeli government have shown themselves to be considerably more numerous and vocal than Moslems who do not tolerate terrorist vermin. If they want this parallel to be considered valid, the latter are simply going to have to speak up (with recourse to the word "but" or any synonym thereof).

[TomGuy]

This will get the Philadelphia Inquirer a FARTWAH!

[SW6906]

When the leaders of the Moslem world come out and condemn the fanatics, suicide bombers and terrorists rather than applaud them and encourage more, I will condemn this kind of political cartoon. So far, few if any have sided with us in the war on terror.....

[jeremiah]

I am surprised the criticism isn't used for a call for a Jihad against the cartoonist. That says it all about my feelings for Islam.

[Cloud William]

Speaking of cartoons, were there not several characters in Johnny Hart's "B.C." that spoofed the Muslims? I recall a hairy, shirtless bad guy with a fez, always carrying a scimitar - and an obese female in a burqua. Seems like there were camels, too. I have not seen those characters in a long, long time; anyone else remember 'em?

[nicmarlo]

ping....Islamafascist cartoon funny.

[rintense]

Well, had a cartoon been created about Christians or Jews...

I remember the uproar when a NYC museum showed a work of 'art' that had Jesus covered in dung.

[sweetliberty]

ROTFL! Yep, and their response shows just how tolerant they are. NOT! Indeed, it proves the validity of the cartoon. The truth is painfully intolerable to them, kinda like it is to the Rats.