Craig’s Blog

Andrew Sullivan from Time wrote a decent editorial about the cartoon controversy. An excerpt:

The Arab media run cartoons depicting Jews and the symbols of the Jewish faith with imagery indistinguishable from that used in the Third Reich. But I have yet to see Jews or Israelis threaten the lives of Muslims because of it.

In my last post I mentioned that an Iranian newspaper is holding a contest for creating holocaust cartoons. (It should be noted that the newspaper is owned and operated by the city of Tehran in alliance with the holocaust-denying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) This is not an act of revenge which would upset Jews in the way that Muslims are upset now — while the Holocaust certainly makes one think of Jews, it is not a symbol of Judaism in the way that Muhammad is of Islam. Rather, the cartoons will be endorsements of fascism and genocide.

And finally, a topical political cartoon by Tom Toles.

Mirrors: Time editorial, cartoon.

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