Wulfie's Wurld

Editorial: Cartoon Riots

Apparently a discussion between a book publisher and newspaper publisher started this whole thing. The bookies said that people were afraid to do cartoons about Islam. The papies thought they'd experiment. They commissioned 12 cartoons and published them in September 2005. Four to five months later (can anyone say "quick on the draw?) Muslims all over the world began burning Danish flags and embassies. They may have even stopped importing Danish breakfast rolls, who knows? The cartoons depicted Muhammad, considered by Islam to be the last prophet of God.

Does anyone know what Muhammad looks like? I always kind of imagined him to be a guy with a beard and a turban. But then, the Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden have beards and turbans. So do several million others. Will the one who really looks like the Prophet Muhammad please stand up? How do we know that the cartoon isn't really depicting Sean Connery as Achmed el-Raisuli from "The Wind and the Lion?"

Muslims don't like the Prophet Muhammad represented in pictures (as in paintings, sculptures, etc.) because they don't want him to be worshipped as some graven image. If now Muslims think that cartoons are some form of blasphemy, I'd have to ask . . . blasphemy against what? If the image of Muhammad, whatever he looks like, is now sacred, haven't you just gone against your own precepts? Are you taking logic lessons from the U.S. government or something?

Can anyone say "sense of humor?"

Can anyone say "get a grip?"

Not that these fundy Muslims will listen. We've been saying the same thing to Congress for years and they haven't listened.