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Why aren't we talking about 'Hide Your Saskatchewan Conservative Members of Parliament'? That would be much more timely and relevant to your readers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/pdf/fitzpatrick-letter.pdf

The "forgotten Mohammed cartoon", do I ever miss Gary Larson.

WTF? Leftdog seems to be out in left field again (pun intended).

As to the cartoon, it obviously wasn't that big a deal to blaspheme a dozen years back. Kind of like back when you could tell newfie jokes without having to go for sensitivity training. BTW, the best jokes came from Newfoundlanders. Anyone remember Aunt Martha's sheep?

leftdog, on the contrary, this post is unfortunately quite current and topical: http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/breaking_news_t.html#comments

"According to reports circulating throughout the German media today, two suitcase bombs placed by two unidentified men very nearly went off on regional trains in Dortmund and Koblenz at the end of July. A deadly simultaneous bombing was only averted because the bombs were technically defective. Had they detonated, German authorities believe that a mass casualty event similar to the recent attacks in London could have been the result."

How many of you knew the Germans discovered two unexploded suitcase bombs on trains a couple weeks ago? Where is the story in the western press even today? Why? Doesn't fit the desired narrative?

...ah the Far Side.

My favorite one was the Lone Ranger in a rocking chair in an Old Folks Home reading a book on Indian Slang Terms...

"...oh here it is, 'KEMOSABIE: Horse's rear end'...what the HEY!"

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TexCan - you mean the Newfie minesweeper? Cover your ears with your hands and pound the ground around you with your feet...?

Wow,at least three Zappa fans posted to the pic(third was mine).To those curious..."Billy was a Mountain(Ethel was a tree,growing on his shoulder)"is an admittedly bizarre song/story performed by the late Frank.

Anyways,I must express my fave Larson cartoon as it took me a whole week to "get".

It shows a man standing on a narrow ledge of a tall building,pinwheeling his arms as he leans forward while a crowd watches from below....I finally noticed that of the various pigeons perched around him,the one directly behind had it's tiny little foot out.

And as to why there was no outrage over this particular depiction of Mo...Well,there was no strategic need for it's propaganda value at that time,was there?.

Is it time for a Gary Larson thread??

Any one remember "Cow Tools"??

You want fries with that,.... clown! ?

Hey someone get a giant Islam-a-spatula: that clown is burning!

You can tell you are in a funny persons house, when there are Gary Larson books in the bathroom.

A little bit of Conservative Humour for your enjoyment featureing Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.

http://www.workingforchange.com/webgraphics/WFC/TMW06-21-06.jpg

...off topic, but we're seeing the results of moonbattery in courts...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18...d.ap/ index.html

I hope when McDonalds rebuids they slip a little pork into those sawdust burgers of theirs!

Gary Larson is a master, methinks it drove him crazy

"Cow Tools" was good, how about the "Cow Phone"?

I'm glad Kate and Eric find the cartoon amusing, but they should perhaps consider themselves lucky that the radical Muslim community has confined it's outrage to the most recent and blatant of offence that has been given to them in drawings, quaintly spin doctored and called cartoons in the western media, even though using that description is akin to calling a hurricane a bit of bad weather.

While Larson can't be faulted for the application of a common idiom in his drawing, it should be remembered that the source of the idiom itself is based on maladaptation of Islamic legend by an English philosopher.

The saying "If the mountain will not come to Mohammad, Mohammad will go to the mountain (apparently illustrating 'If one cannot get one's own way, one must adjust to the inevitable) has been traced back in English to 'Essays,' (1625) by English philosopher Frances Bacon (1561-1626). It was included in John Ray's book of English proverbs in 1678.

Obviously Bacon found some manner of wisdom in the Islamic legend on which his idiom is based, in order to create a comperable 'english proverb/idom'.

"The legend goes that when the founder of Islam was asked to give proofs of his teaching, he ordered Mount Safa to come to him. When the mountain did not comply, Mohammed raised his hands toward heaven and said, 'God is merciful. Had it obeyed my words, it would have fallen on us to our destruction. I will therefore go to the mountain and thank God that he has had mercy on a stiff-necked generation."

For Kate or Eric to suggest or imply that Larson's cartoon has some direct relationship to an insult to the Islamic religion in the same category of the stupidity expressed in the 'other' drawings is not only a stretch, but shows a lack of understand of the issue, and they are indeed lucky that God has once again had mercy on a stiff-necked generation.