Killing Cartoonists
News out of Denmark today about a foiled plot to murder the 73-year-old cartoonist who penned this image here.
See if you can track the logic of this: Man depicts image of a prophet as an instrument of death, followers of prophet take offense and decide to become, uh, instruments of death…
Wtf?
From the Yahoo piece here:
A Danish citizen of Moroccan descent and two Tunisians were arrested in Denmark on Tuesday over a plot to murder one of 12 cartoonists whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused worldwide uproar in 2006.
The Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said the arrests near Aarhus in western Denmark were made after lengthy surveillance to prevent a “terror-related killing” that was in an early stage of planning.
I was in Aarhus in November. It’s a sleepy gorgeous tolerant little town. I can’t believe the shit that people get up to in the name of religion.
This whole incident did make me think though: What image could someone draw that would be so offensive to me that it would make me want to kill them? I tried and tried, but couldn’t come up with one.
Why is my capacity to hate so severely limited I thought to myself? It is because I don’t work myself up into the a froth over ideas that come from ancient texts writen by men who thought that the sun revolved around the earth and who treated women only slightly better than cattle? Could be my friends, could be…
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