Craig
Feb 7th, 2006

Muslim Cartoons

In the past week or so, many Muslims have pushed protesting to insane extremes in response to some cartoons published in European papers, namely Denmark, Norway, and France. The cartoons depicted Muhammad and Allah. At this point several people have died. Let me repeat that: people have died as a result of cartoons being published.

Less serious but also noteworthy:

  • The Danish embassy in Beirut was burned down
  • Two executives from a Jordanian newspaper which reprinted the cartoons have been arrested
  • The 12 cartoonists are currently in hiding with police protection

In a fit of immaturity, an Iranian newspaper is now holding a contest for the best Holocaust cartoon.

Here are the cartoons in question.

Mirrors: AFP article, Reuters article, cartoon gallery

2 Responses to “Muslim Cartoons”

  1. # Squireon 07 Feb 2006 at 5:18 pm

    I have a blogger account.. how does one switch t wordpress?

    Do you have to buy a subscription ?

  2. # Craigon 07 Feb 2006 at 9:11 pm

    You don’t ’subscribe’ to Wordpress itself — you have to get your own web space through a hosting account. I use http://www.hasweb.com . Then you have to install Wordpress, which is free. You can also use the space for anything else, such as a photo gallery. You will also need a domain name (e.g. mine is patik.com) which you can get a lot of places, namely http://www.godaddy.com/ .

    Wordpress has a few recommendations for hosting to get you started: http://wordpress.org/hosting/

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