There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in. There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with … I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized […]
xkcd fires back on behalf everyone comfortable enough with the language to use it intelligently, by which I mean to communicate an idea beyond “I’ve memorized these rules.” One of my most-cited sites is known informally as “Everyone Loves Their Jane Austen,” though it’s listed on search engines as “Singular “their” in Jane Austen and […]
From the NY Times: Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, was arrested Thursday in Oslo on preliminary charges of inciting to commit criminal offense, a day after giving an interview to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. He was also apprehended on preliminary charges for threating a Kurdish immigrant living in Norway in the same TV interview. […]
Over on Patheos, an author that goes by Eren, has written a piece looking at how American cartoonists typically depict Muslim women in cartoons: When it comes to Muslim women as represented in political cartoons catered to non-Muslim Western audiences, a few prevalent themes can be easily identified. I tend to collect political cartoons of […]
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed the mayor of Kandahar city by hiding the explosive device under his turban. The tactic is reminiscent of the Kurt Westergaard caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that incited protests and rioting that left over a 100 people dead. Adopting turban bomb as weapon […]
It appears having gained freedom from Mubarrak this spring, Egyptians are still working out the free speech part. A conservative group of Muslims took offense to a cartoon by Mustafa Hussein and allege that a recent cartoon of his defamed Islam and made a mockery of Salafists (Salafists being the conservative Muslim group). In retaliation, […]