Sunday, August 26, 2007

Offending Muslims


As you may have heard by now, the Washington Post has decided not to air a cartoon named Opus this week because it might "offend Muslims". Well, I don't much care for censorship, certainly when it might hurt people's precious feelings. So, I'm going to publish said cartoon here and watch the fireworks. Let's see if people get all upset about this like they didn't get upset by the recent Jesus advertisement. So, without further ado, the offending cartoon:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're so brave Travis.

Travis said...

Bravery has nothing to do with it. I simply get sick and tired of people worried about "offending Muslims", but they have no problem with offending Christians, Buddhists, Jews, and other ethnic and religious groups.

Why? Because they are worried about riots and death threats. That's not how you do things. I'm just saying that it's high time that people stop worrying about offending one groups and not worrying about offending another. Either offend all or don't offend all.