Slog - Comments on Mohammed Cartoons Reprinted—In an Egyptian Newspaper. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo Henry, a Stranger reader, just sent me this link. I've never heard of this blog before, and some folks will find it offensive (the author, apparently an Egyptian, calls himself "Sandmonkey"), but... uh... gee... it seems that an Egyptian newspaper reprinted the Danish cartoons in October of 2005. Sandmonkey writes: Guess we will have to Boycott Egypt now as well, huh? Now while the arab islamic population was going crazy over the outrage created by their government's media over these cartoons, their governments was benifitting from its people's distraction. The Saudi royal Family used it to distract its people from... Copyright 2007 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:39:04 -0800 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:24:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by blah Ted Rall a political cartoonist and essayist has this article.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0208-20.htm

]]> blah http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016012 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:10:40 -0800 Comment by Jason This certainly puts things in a very different light.

]]> Jason http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016021 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:35:38 -0800 Comment by Rain Monkey I've instructed my attorneys to seek damages for trademark infringement against this "SandMonkey."

Hey Dan, I noticed that the Stranger has published the cartoons in todays paper along with your internationally syndicated dirty mind which was pointedly offensive to fundamentalist Christians.

YEAH for the Stranger, I hope you have one of those creepy white SUV's marked "Federal Protective Services, Homeland Security" keeping you safe.

]]> Rain Monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016026 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:44:24 -0800 Comment by Raw Data I can sorta see the point that maybe the cartoons shouldn't have been published -- but that's history. It's been done and we need to stand firm behind free speech. But how does this play out? What's the best/worst/most likely etc scenario?

More to the point, the question now is what to do next week i.e. Do tou continue to publish cartoons until they say 'uncle?' How do we confront Islamic bullying without further inflaming matters? How do we know when the point is understood and accepted?

]]> Raw Data http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016029 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016029 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:58:22 -0800 Comment by xutech Here's a story in the NYTimes that gives a better persective on this story. This story is about politics, not free speech or religion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/international/middleeast/09cartoon.html?hp&ex=1139547600&en=578cb46567d732ae&ei=5094&partner=homepage

]]> xutech http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016035 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016035 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:11:17 -0800 Comment by lostboy If Janet I. Tu calls her interviewees back, maybe she should also mention the Stranger's never shy history of printing covers inflammatory to Christians and just about everyone else.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016036 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016036 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:25:57 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Dan,
You asked "where are the riots in Egypt?". I'm reminded that the Jordanian editor who ran the cartoons was immediately fired and arrested. I just bring that up to point out that it is not completely a double-standard, i.e. the outrage has not been exclusively directed at the West.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016042 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016042 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:41:04 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Actually, that was Andrew's quote, sorry.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016044 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:42:29 -0800 Comment by Superfrankenstein It's embarrassing to suggest work for other people, BUT this has been on my mind. How about a BLASPHEMY CONTEST so we can ALL get ourselves killed? Cartoons, lyrics, photos, short-short stories, ecumenical as the Dalai Lama hangin' on a fuckin' cross!

]]> Superfrankenstein http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016058 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:00:08 -0800 Comment by ahura In the Sea Times article about The Stranger printing the cartoons, Sea Times editors said that they had a link on their web site to the cartoons but didn't post the cartoons. Are they trying to be cute? What's the difference? Seems like a cowardly technicality to me.

]]> ahura http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016062 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0800 Comment by David Summerlin Wow, I knew about all those other republications, but now that this Egyptian republication comes to light, my feelings about racist caricatures are totally transformed. My whole moral universe is reconfigured.

Oh, wait, it isn't. Never mind.

]]> David Summerlin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016064 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016064 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:19:22 -0800 Comment by David Summerlin Ahura, it might be a technicality, though not a cowardly one. Just because Sullivan says people who don't publish the cartoon are afraid doesn't make it so.

This isn't a battle between publishers who are "for" freedom of speech and those who are "against" it. The times has every right to stand up for free speech by refusing to hop on the bandwagon in the name of "solidarity." Maybe they don't publish the cartoons because they are stupid. Maybe they link to them because they don't oppose another's right to publish them, or because they don't object to people being able to see the cartoons that are causing all the hysteria. We have a free press, which thankfully means we have at least a little diversity of opinion. Precious little, unfortunately.

The people who are getting all bent out of shape are the ones I see reacting in fear -- fear of an Islamic boogeyman come to take away their rights. That doesn't mean the boogeyman doesn't exist, it's just that the actual threat is getting blown way out of proportion.

]]> David Summerlin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016066 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016066 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:33:44 -0800 Comment by Nearly Normal Jimmy Not sure if this is the right place to bring this up or not, but is anyone else having trouble finding a copy of this weeks Stranger? There are none in the distribution boxes in Upper Queen Anne. Distribution problem or is there a do'ins a transpir'in in regards to the publication of the cartoons?

]]> Nearly Normal Jimmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016073 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016073 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:44:06 -0800 Comment by David Summerlin The racks are full in Fremont, but then we have a statue of Lenin.

]]> David Summerlin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016075 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016075 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:45:31 -0800 Comment by inhibitionist From egyptiansandmonkey: "I've yet to see a single christian group get mad at the Rolling Stones for having Kanye West depicting Jesus on their cover, and you know why? because they understand that there is something called free speech and freedom of expression."

Ed. in chief Mick Jagger, that controversial scamp.

]]> inhibitionist http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/mohammed_cartoo#c016109 Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:24:30 -0800