[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by habernac

and now, just to prove the cartoon's point, a Pakistani cleric is offering $1 million for the death of the cartoonist(s?) responsible for the drawings

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...448182-ap.html

We need to restore an irony thread for stuff like this.

This is all serious of course . . . . . but in a comical way. You can't help but be politically incorrect and guffaw about a reaction that confirms your worst stereotypes.

EDIT: Meanwhile, the United Church of Canada directs a statement to Muslims:

In a letter to the Islamic Council of Imams, the church also expressed its regrets over decisions by media outlets in Canada and the other countries to publish the caricatures, which have triggered fatal rioting in some regions of the world.

“We believe that the intention of publishing the cartoons has little to do with freedom of expression and much to do with incitement to racial and religious hatred,” senior church representatives said in the letter released to the media on Friday.

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“The cartoons suggest that Islam itself teaches, condones and encourages violence, bombings and the mistreatment of women. Furthermore, the implication is that all Muslims believe so as well.

“This we know to be untrue.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../National/home

Cowperson