Hiding in Plain Sight
CBS has brilliantly demonstrated why censorship is not only immoral, it is just plain head-up-your-ass stupid.
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In covering the recent attack on a Danish cartoonist and his family by an axe-wielding terrorist who apparently couldn’t find any exploding underwear, CBS takes pains to blur out the actual years-old cartoon of Mohammed wearing a turban bomb, lest Jihad Inc. take offense.
Spineless, yes! But wait, there’s more! Apparently CBS is as confused as the rest of us in trying to figure out what makes a muslim time bomb tick. In their segment, they distort one image showing the specific cartoon that artist Kurt Westergaard inked, but later show an undistorted newspaper page with all the offending Mohammed cartoons, including Westergaard’s!
Whether CBS was trying to avoid setting off Islam’s volcanic temper or just trying to protect themselves from being visited by a muslim land shark of their own, they blew it on both counts. Wake up, fucktards! You can bury every copy of that cartoon in a steel drum or you can embroider it on the American flag. Nothing we do is going to keep the next guy from trying to hide a stick of dynamite up his ass while flying JetBlue to Disneyland.
Look, I normally would never force a criminal suspect to watch as his grandmother is eaten alive by fire ants, but I’m warning you terrorists: any one cartoonist is more evil than all of Sunni Islam and the Khmer Rouge combined. Ever read Happiness is a Warm Puppy? There are more coded instructions from Satan in that book than the Necrinomicon. Don’t piss us off.
UPDATE: Speaking of evil cartoonists, how evil am I that it took me this long to note the passing of cartoonist David Levine, a caricaturist who had an influence on me when I was very young. Farewell, David. Your jihad will live on!Â
Amen.
Well, at least there is one thing big business and terrorists have in common.
No sense of humour.
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Someone draws a picture of a guy with a beard and calls him \Mohammed\, suddenly a cry of \JIHAD!\ is heard. Utterly rediculous behavior, and it’s equally rediculous for free media to acquiesce to such religious threatening. It’s something all fundamentalists have in common: keep pushing until someone pushes back.
Basically, the whole \omg you drew our prophet die die\ thing is a scam and an excuse to perpetuate their violent behavior. If that never happened, they simply would have latched onto some other thing.
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What irritates me is that the censorship they want isn’t limited to their own communities, but to the entire world. Everyone, everywhere. Or they will punish people who never even saw the comic, and frankly, just want to pay the bills and be with loved ones.
And the voluntary censorship doesn’t placate any extremist, but rather proves that they get what they want by killing people. If anything the demand for censorship should be ignored the minute they start killing people.
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If you want to prove your point about cartoonists being evil, you ought to publish that lovely piece you did for me a while back. Remember? The one with the bacon? You still got the scans from that one?
Thing is Muslims don’t believe in portraying people in any art form so how does anyone know what Muhammad looks like? If this is a way to get them as pissed off as we are at their terrorist actions, then I say keep it up. Screw you if you can’t take a joke.