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Sunday, February 05, 2006
 

Restraint

Here is one blasphemous image of Islam:


From Gaza City on Thursday.

Here's another:




And another:




... Both from protests in London. Discouragingly, my government isn't liberal enough to defend the Danish cartoons; White House and State Department people, along with Kofi Annan, agree with some Muslims that cartoonists need to show "restraint."

Well, here's a German woodcut from about 1481, titled "His Wife Scolding the Drunken Mohammed," ripped from the Mohammed Image Archive.


And here's the punchline:


"Mohammed Cursing the Vines."

posted by Michael Scott Moore | 8:10 AM
Comments:
We know where you live and we are coming to get you.


Just kidding.


Derick
 
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