[lit-ideas] Wife Allows Temporary Cartoon Display
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:49:45 -0500
Illiterate Texas real estate guy puts giant poster
of Bombhead Mohammed cartoon on his lawn. Plans to
keep it up there until his wife makes him take it
down. -EY
Cartoon flap no joke for resident
BEAUMONT - John Caffery called it an act of
cowardice by U.S. newspapers for not publishing
controversial Muslim-based cartoons, so the local
resident decided to take matters into his own hands.
On the corner of Daisy and Norwood drives, Caffery
erected a large sign Sunday afternoon with one of
the cartoons. It also carries a message about the
subsequent rioting throughout the world caused by
the publishing of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper.
Caffery couldn't understand why American
newspapers opted to omit the cartoons but write
about the rioting. He said newspapers were not
giving the public all of the information they
needed to understand.
So he decided to be a source of information, he
said, because it's a matter of free speech. At the
very least, he can let his local community know
the rioting, violence and denouncement of the
United States is over a cartoon.
"It's cowardly for (a) newspaper giving in to the
pressure from the Muslims for these so-called
offending cartoons," Caffery said. "Most of the
cartoons are pretty silly. The one out there on
the sign is probably one of the least offending
cartoons."
The sign is four feet by eight feet, according to
Caffery's estimation, and was made as "large as it
feasibly" could be made, he said. A cartoon of
Muhammad's head shaped like a lit bomb is depicted
to the left and a statement on the right reads
"For This Cartoon In Danish and Nowegian [sic]
Newspapers Muslems [sic] Worldwide Have Rioted,
and Killed and Now Offer $11 Million Reward to
Kill The Cartoonist."
<snip>
The sign will stay up at least until Caffery's
wife takes it down, he said.
http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16208712&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6
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