Knives And Swords May Cut Off Heads, But Cartoons...........

Of late, the 12th-Century boys have been getting their keffiyhas (sorry, "peace scarves") in a bunch over a series of Swedish cartoons showing Mohammad's head on a dog. They've even put a price on the cartoonist's head, offering a couple hundred G's for his untimely demise.

Can't you just feel the tolerance? Yeah, me either.

So you can make up your own mind, and because that old First Amendment still exists, here is one of the cartoon in question:



Oh, my. Seems Chris Muir is raising the free-speech ante with this cartoon.

And Don Surber weighs in:

"Hey, change it to a cross, put it in a urinal and you can get a grant from the U.S. government.

He also asks a real good question:

"Where is the outrage from Amnesty International over the throat-cutting? The ACLU? The Democratic Party?"

I always find it interesting that the waton torture and murder of anyone who disagrees with the 12th-century boys struggle to pull the world back into the Middle Ages doesn't seem to concern the above folks too much. But take a picture of a naked inmate at Abu Ghraib..........

UPDATE: So would it be OK with the ACLU or Amnesty International if we put a price on the head of the Palestinian who drew this cartoon?



It appeared on 9.12.2007. In a Palestinian newspaper.

Even so, it is still free speech.

Hattip: LGF