Cartoons

Either I’m depressed or the world is getting crazier by the day. Till date, I didn’t know there is a newspaper by the name Jyllands-Posten, now everyone who cares to read any news source knows about their history. The paranoia that seems to have gripped us in these troubled times must be seen to be believed!

Here is a beautiful take on this whole controversy by Asia Times -
right on the money.

Asia Times Editorial on the Cartoon Issue

At the same time of course, the protesters’ flag-burnings and threats against the various publishers of the cartoons do nothing but harden anti-Muslim attitudes in the West. And this is what it’s all about. Poke each other often enough with a stick - or a cartoon, or a fuel-laden airliner - and tolerance wears thin. Forget the "winning hearts and minds" drivel, or at least collapse in hysterical laughter over it. Civilizational war is what the protagonists want, and that’s what they’re getting.