[lit-ideas] Re: update on the Muhammad cartoons
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- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:56:42 EST
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Great neologism. I love it.
Julie Krueger
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Muhammad cartoons Date: 2/2/06 12:52:52 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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"Phil Enns" writes:
: In my opinion, the cartoons are in poor taste and worse, aren't funny.
: Their only purpose seems to lie in provoking Muslims, and I don't see
: anything clever about that.
The cartoons were drawn and published in protest against the fact
that the author of a book about Mohammad could not find any artists
who dared to illustrate it. The thus were not intended so much to
be funny as to protext the self-censorship of the artists who
refused to draw the illustrations.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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