Tons of Toons
Today, maybe because it is friday I started with an exhausted feeling after seeing so many images of agry people with danish flags. I walked the indiantrail in the forest instead, noticing that it was a lovely sunny winterweather with crisp white snow. I pondered to write about zen-buddhism in this post instead.
Yesterday I caught sight of all the 12 Jylland-Posten cartoons on the Muhammed Image Archive. To go along with those on the same webbsite was also found historical Muhammed-pictures. Mohammed looks somewhat different seen from the east and seen from the west, as much I gathered from the site. Also I realised that the danish cartoons are not so unique as we have come to think these last weeks. Muhammed-imagery has been around a long time and more is coming every day.
Some pinpoint the satirical level with skill, others are just vulgar and blunt.
But should they be banned and cencored? Is it even possible to attempt to do so? Anybody with a pen can find a wall to draw on and there is no need to sign the artwork, the main idea will come through anyway. Just imagine the amount of new staff the police would have to employ in order to chase suspicious-looking people with inkpens...
The link below is to Lexic-Orient, a webbsite made by a norvegian about the Orient.
posted by "Amira" @ 10:55 AM
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