Here, courtesy of Salon, is the Berkeley Breathed comic strip that's been banned by newspapers (including the Washington Post) on grounds that it's insensitive to Muslims. It's pretty mild stuff, and it makes fun not of Muslims, but a certain kind of arrogant American. Irony, what a concept! And yet, this is considered by some newspaper editors to be so offensive no one can see it.
This. Is. Insane. But not uncommon. Hats off to CAIR, though. If their job is to make any criticism of Islam or practitioners of the Islamic religion forbidden in public under pain of being called a bigot, they're succeeding, at least with p.c. journalism elites.
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Yes. This is fascinating.
As far as CAIR refusing to condemn violence by Hamas and Hezbollah, when was the last time the ADL condemened violence by Israel? How about the last time the GOP condemned violence by Americans in Iraq?
Yes. I do see moral equivalence. Aiding and abetting murder is criminal. Why again are they unindicted? Co-conspirator is not unlike Dreher stating that CAIR sought to shut down his argument by bringing up the "Nazi" canard. Our government wishes to shut down any pro-Muslim organization by calling them "unindicted co-conspirators." It's meaningless. I'll say it again - meaningless.
I submit that the status of CAIR as unindicted co-conspirators is nothing more than a smear-tactic designed to dupe the public into discounting their work. Part of that work, like the ADL and CL, is to ensure the the public is aware of fallacious representations made in the media.
Prove to the public that CAIR is a terrorist organization if that's possible, but please don't think that "unindicted co-conspirator" is supposed to make us care about CAIR.
Distinguishing between those who aid and abet murder and those who don't is basic.
Yes, but we aid and abet murder every time we pay our taxes, do we not?
Franklin, some people who aren't fictional have said the same thing about Islam. Ayatolloh Khomenei is said to have uttered this gem: "There is no humor in Islam. There can be no humor in what is serious." However, the Ayatollah is also reported to have laughed when Oriana Fallaci ripped off her headscarf during her interview with him, which she did not once, but twice.
Posting in a hurry, sorry for the mispellings above. I meant to say Ayatollah Khomenei.
Alicia, in general I try to avoid unqualified statements. I don't mean this as a criticism of your post; I'm quite sure I understand your intended meanings.
But, my reaction to statements like Khomenei's is to edit it in my mind: "There is no humor in [my version of] Islam."
My spiritual path is based on the neverending search for balance. I find laughter in the most serious, and sober wisdom in the most refined humor. I should qualify that by saying that if I failed to look for each complementary aspect, my life would be many times less rich, and quite a bit more boring.
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