Alert Rage Boy: there are rumblings of another "Cartoon Jihad," this time against a drawing published in a Swedish newspaper showing Muhammed as a dog. We'll see if this story blows up to the same dimensions as the original Cartoon Jihad.
On the other hand, the article below describes another drawing by the same artist, which presents a crude anti-Jewish slur—so while the original Danish Mohammed cartoons were a powerful statement about freedom of speech, this new case may just be a publicity stunt by a crude provocateur looking to get his name in the papers.
"New Muslim Cartoon Protests Grow," Henry de Quetteville, Daily Telegraph, August 30 Fears grew of a new confrontation over images deemed blasphemous by Muslims as Pakistan joined Iran in protest over a sketch by a Swedish artist portraying the prophet Mohammed as a dog….
The drawings show the head of a turbaned man attached to the body of a dog, in front of various settings including a football goal.
The publication, in the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, came after several galleries had refused to display the drawings, apparently for fear of violent retaliation from offended Muslims….
"Alongside the picture, we published a comment piece saying that it was serious that there is self-censorship among exhibition [galleries]," said the Nerikes Allehanda editor-in-chief, Ulf Johansson….
Artist Lars Vilks has not confined his provocative cartoons to Islam however. Another drawing, featured on his website, features a giant hook-nosed pig looming over hillside houses. The caption reads: "Modern Jew sow, swollen by capitalism, on her way to tear apart some peaceful villages."
Sweden Runs Up The White Flag
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