Bloom County/Opus cartoonist Berke Breathed is no friend or fan of the Republicans, and has done many, many cartoons lampooning conservatives in general and President Bush in particular. Well, the next two weeks he drew cartoons which (gasp!) poked fun at the Religion of Peace (official motto: "Don't call us violent or we'll kill you!"), and newspapers across the country are refusing to run it, including the host paper for the strip, the Washington Post. Here is the skinny from Breathed's own website: http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/index.asp.
Our cowardice knows no bounds..............
UPDATE (Sunday morning, 8:25 a.m.): To its credit, the largest local paper in my area, the Philadelphia Inquirer, HAS printed the cartoon.
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British MSM has balls!!!
"The Channel 4 deputy head of news and current affairs, Kevin Sutcliffe, today dismissed accusations of Islamophobia in the broadcaster's programming, stating that it would remain "fearless" in its coverage.
Mr Sutcliffe, one of five panelists involved at a sometimes heated session at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh international television festival about the portrayal of Islam in the media, said critics would be "hard pressed to point to Islamophobia" in Channel 4's programming.
"We have a rounded view and approach to this issue ... we are quite fearless about what we want to say and when we want to say it," he added. In response to the Crown Prosecution Service criticism that the controversial Dispatches documentary Undercover Mosque had "distorted" the views of those filmed, Mr Sutcliffe said it was a "phoney argument".
From http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2007/8/24/channel-4-rejects-islamophobia-claims.html
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