A Sense of Humor
bookma.org (tip to Jonathan)
What a great answer to the easily offended of the world.
A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims. An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest - - Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest!
Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the “Muhammad cartoon-gate” events in amazement, until finally he came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so he announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
“We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!” said Sandy “No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”
Comments
wow. this level of self-deprecation is ballsy and very funny. i wonder if it will serve to deconstruct (in the minds of extremists) the iranian government's psychotic intolerance? what does bigotry even mean if it's no longer disempowering? on the other hand, the israeli cartoons could be read at face-value by literal-minded religious zealots. they might cite the 'toons as evidence for their propaganda.
makes one wonder... if "Holy Books" can be evidence, why not cartoons?