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Are Muslim editorial cartoonists opposing Isis?

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Alan Gardner May 18, 2015 1 minute 4 comments

Christiane Gruber makes the case that The West is under reporting the opposition to ISIS from Muslim cartoonists in the Middle East.

Writing in Newsweek:

Over the past year, cartoonists across the Middle East have critiqued ISIS with equal amounts of ferocity and fearlessness. From Jordan to Iran, they frequently lambast ISIS?referring to it through its acronym Daesh, which is related to the pejorative Arabic term meaning ?to tread under foot??as destructive of Islam and the world?s cultural heritage, as the growling lapdog of various superpowers, as the ultimate devil and grim reaper of Iraq and as an Oscar-winning sensation obsessed with bloody forms of self-promotion (Figure 1).

She also posts examples. I think she’s painting a rosier picture of opposition from Muslim world editorial cartoonists. What’s not well explained are what percentage of those cartoons are coming from Europe, or safe(r) Middle Eastern countries. It flies in the face of stories of cartoonists going to jail, having their hands beaten or sued by government leaders.