Wednesday, February 08, 2006

long live satire

Excellent post by Joe about the cartoon controversy.

I particularly liked this bit:
I am a very devout Seventh Day Cartoonist; I worship at the Cartoonist altar almost every day and believe in the Holy Trinity - Tom, Jerry and Bugs Bunny. I believe in the literal truth of the Complete Crumb Comics. I believe Matt Groening and Fred Quimby were sent down from Cartoon Heaven to be the Great Animator’s disciples on Earth and show us the way to a better, more tolerant and relaxed society by using satire, humour and cartoons. As such I resent the way some Muslims have attacked the Cartoonists. Where are my rights? These unbelievers deserve our wrath - fortunately we Cartoonists don’t believe in burning down buildings, books or threatening the safety of individuals, but we shall be writing to Steve Bell and Ralph Steadman about this. Eat our ink, unbelievers!

1 comment:

Yewtree said...

dear emile

I understand where you are coming from, but your analysis omits the fact that there were people issuing death-threats in response to the cartoons - surely a disproportionate reaction?

It's hardly surprising that someone would be offended by the cartoons - the problem is the extremist nature of their reaction, threatening to cut people's heads off, setting fire to the Jyllandsposten offices, and so on.