oh, and the danish muhammad cartoons?

[rone]

As is often the case, Warren Ellis opines along the same lines as i do, except better.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That doesn't have much to do with the fact that many of the real cartoons are a big pile of shit written by adolescents.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Yes, and my point was that nobody seemed to care how adolescent and shitty they were until they were used as part of a deliberate propaganda campaign by religious fanatics to incite riots against Denmark.

As stupid and intolerant as it was for Jyllands-Posten to publish these cartoons, the response to them has been even moreso.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone is trying to defend the reaction. But some are trying to defend the cartoons.