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MARCH 31, 2006
MORE OF YOUR COMMENTS ON THE ARES WALL CARTOON
Try to enter Mexico or Canada illegally
and see what happens. For that matter try to illegally enter
any country. How about entering or leaving Cuba? What do you
suppose would be your fate?
Pete Conrad
Battle Ground, WA
Unlike some others,
I'm not offended by your cartoon.
However, we in Texas and the rest of the Estados Unidos, have
a serious problem.
The first is a political system that ignores the wishes, on this
matter (and other matters), of the majority of the citizens.
Our elected representatives refuse to enforce the laws of the
nation.
I think the biggest problem can be seen by the recent demonstrations
that are making the daily news. Since I know absolutely nothing
about Cuba, I can only assume that you have access to American
news broadcasts. I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. We
have had thousands of Mexican students leaving school to demonstrate
against enforcement of our laws and against the enactment of
new legislation. More demonstrations are planned. The biggest
problem is that they are carrying Mexican flags, not American
flags. This speaks volumes and indicates where their loyalties
lie. The Mexican immigrants do not assimilate like other immigrants.
They have no interest in becoming Americans. However, they cause
a tremendous strain on our social services. This includes free
health care, police protection, and education. Yes, free. Or
free to the recipient, not to the taxpayer.
Some are good people and pay taxes. However, they are still a
people apart who work for cash that avoids taxation.
To us, America should be for Americans, not those who illegally
cross our borders and demand that we do things their way.
I hope you will consider this from the standpoint of those who
are very disturbed by this "invasion".
By the way, I have never written a letter like this to anyone.
This should indicate the depths of my/our feeling on this matter.
Dave Davidson, Texas
Hello,
Was there, saw it, heard the shots.
Someone wrote in the "Austin Statesman (Austin TX), do not
remember the exact words, but a paraphrase:
"Why don't we just go a head and annex Mexico and stop all
of this garbage."
My feelings are that seeing as Mexico lost all of her territory,
above the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, she is just trying to get it
all back (and more so), by sending the people across the border,
that she could care less about. Send in the 'Shock Troops (that
you can easily replace) to do as much damage as can be done,
then send in the ELITE to finish it off.
The Mexican 'minority' is quickly becoming the MAJORITY.
Thank you for reading this - for whatever good it has done. Could
be made into an Editorial comment, but then you would have to
go into hiding, like the Danes!
Ciao,
Scott
They are not emigrants, they
are invading aliens. If you don't believe this, look at the Mexican
flag being flown over an American flag at a Houston School. We
have been invaded just as Germany invaded Poland at the start
of WW2.
You will understand when your boss hires
an illegal alien to draw cartoons for 50 cents each. (note: I
didn't say immigrant, there is a difference)
Jack Freeman
Big difference Jose! In
Berlin it was to keep people in. A wall between here and Mexico
would be "to keep people out!"
H. Hearn
Beaverton, Oregon
I am with you. It is an intelligent representation of a reality.
I can only wish my neighbors on both sides of that wall could
see it for what it truly is.
Alice Machias, Maine
Some people are just too serious!!
that cartoon about the wall between USA and Mexico is funny,
bottomline. Thanks.
Bill Storey
Brother Ares,
Your response to comments on the wall cartoon was interesting
and valid except that the real issue is what message your CARTOON
is sending, how it is perceived by viewers. It seems to be something
of a mixed metaphor, no?
S. B. Hunt
Texas Tech University
I guess most
of the responses you've received have been negative; here's my
positive spin on the cartoon: I like the way it expresses my
own feelings about building walls between nations. Personally,
I'd like to see no wall or fence at all between Mexico and the
US. Rather, I'd like citizens of both countries to be able to
travel freely back and forth for social and economic reasons
whenever they want, also the same between Canada and the US,
and Cuba and the US. There are always going to be bad people,
and walls are not effective in keeping those folks out of anyplace.
But more challenging is for real diplomacy to be made to work,
and countries learn to live together peacefully regardless of
their particular political and economic ideologies. Unfortunately
the "greed of nations" seems to always dominate, nowadays
its the "greed of corporations" but the results are
the same. Good political cartoon - I hope Mr. Cagle shows more
of your work.
Michael Chamness, North Dakota
You can actually see ALL of Ares' work
in his archive here. --Daryl
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FIVE ACCUSED OF KILLING INDIAN CARTOONIST
ARE AQUITTED
A Delhi court has acquitted
five persons, accused of abducting
and killing cartoonist Irfan Hussain nearly seven years ago,
for lack of evidence. Irfan was working as a cartoonist with
the weekly news magazine Outlook. Police claim that Hussain
was kidnapped and later killed by a gang of car theives on the
National Highway 24 in east Delhi on March 8, 1999. Here is a story with background in the murder.
The accused were released for lack of evidence.
 Police
maintain that Hussain was killed in a simple carjacking, but
this didn't look like a carjacking. First, an anonymous caller
had claimed credit for killing Irfan days before his body was
ever found. Second, crank calls to the Hussein household started
just after he disappeared, continued for days, but ended abruptly
an hour after his body was found but before police released any
news that his body had been found. As well, another journalist
had been murdered in Delhi in the month preceding Irfan's death,
her body suffering almost the exact same wounds as Irfan's. The
"MO's" were the same. The other journalist was murdered
in her home: no car jacking was involved.
Hussain's mutilated body was found on the side of a road in an
area where one or two dumped bodies appear on a weekly basis.
He had been stabbed 28 times, strangled and his throat had been
slashed. His car, phone and personal jewelry were gone. After
his kidnapping, but before his body had been found, the wife
of another Delhi cartoonist received a phone call informing her
that Irfan was dead, and that her husband (a cartoonist with
the National Herald in Delhi) was next. The caller identified
himself as from the Shiv Sena political movement.
Irfan was not known as a troublesome cartoonist, but journalists
in India are at an impasse when trying to describe the motives
for most of these attacks.
Your Comments are welcome and, if and as appropriate, will be
passed on to Irfan's family. Send to: mayte6@aol.com.
, subject: Comments, Irfan's Killing.
Cartoonists Rights Network has set up a fund for Irfan's family.
Our readers can send a gesture for Irfan's family to: Robert
Russell, Cartoonists Rights Network , Box 7272, Fairfax Station,
VA 22039--earmarked for "Irfan". Everyone will get
a receipt for their tax deductable contribtion to CRN.
MARCH 30, 2006
 In
response to your many e-mails, Ares sent me this revised cartoon
(at the right) ...
Want to comment? Click
here.
MORE COMMENTS ON THAT WALL CARTOON
Here are some more of your comments on that Ares fence cartoon
(below). Want to comment? Click
here.
Having lived from before the Berlin
Wall was erected until now, I think I have a little grasp on
what it was all about. What I don't grasp is your explanation
for using it in this cartoon.
Your choice of colors appears very symbolic to me. I think you
know what I mean. Also, there is a very negative message in the
sheer massiveness of the blocks in this cartoon.
Maybe the solution to this problem is we annex Mexico? It's a
thought.
TopDadinLadue
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I agree with your comment on Cagle's'
Newsletter about the fact that there should be no walls between
countries, and, I suppose, you mean that we human beings should
not have walls in
society either. I agree with you on that.
What I find most difficult to agree with is those people who
think it's O.K. for someone to enter a country illegally, work
in that country without paying taxes on their wages like all
the legal inhabitants do, then turn around and demand that the
country (1) educate their numerous children, (2) issue them driver's
licenses, and (3) require the tax-paying citizens of that country
pay for the medical care that the illegals (and their families)
get at hospitals, doctors, etc.
I'm not a scrooge. I support many charity organizations that
aid the poor, provide food and shelter for the downtrodden, and
help those that are otherwise in need. The occasional down-on-their-luck
person or family that is something we as a society can deal with.
But how do you extend that to several millions of individuals
when even your own legal resident, hard-working families cannot
get the medical help they need because they can't afford the
medical insurance that is required? Yet the illegals can get
THEIR medical problems taken care on the taxpayer's backs!
Anyway, keep up the good work in your political cartooning
Jerald Thompson
Dear Ares:
I can certainly appreciate the need
to use symbols to express often complex ideas in a powerful,
evocative even discomforting -- fashion, and I applaud
any attempt to do so when it is done with skill and style. The
only concern that I have is that there is always a danger of
"morphing" symbols to express messages that are not
directly applicable, which tends to undercut the image's power
and the willingness of the audience to accept it and benefit
from it and from the underlying thought. Unfortunately, I think
this occurred with this particular image. The intent is obviously
well-meaning; the effect apparently is not what was desired.
Best, Vince Amato
The Berlin wall was built to keep the world safe and to keep
the Germans from ever getting back together and returning to
their evil ways when they thought they could pre-emptively conquer
a nation because it did not give them what they wanted. it's
loss is to be grieved if the future can be seen from the way
they behave these days. The wall with Mexico is being built to
protect America and permit us to continue to conduct pre-emptive
wars with nations who will not give us what we want. it is totally
different!
Arthur Stickgold
Ares~
Your "wall cartoon" demonstrates that we are still
a nation that fears change. Our Southern neighbors know that
they can come to this country and make more money in three months
than in a full year in their country. Our agricultural owners
know that they must have workers from the South to gather their
crops in a timely manner.
But labor and the politicians must posture in order the keep
the balance of big money and people support from labor for the
politicians; ergo, THE WALL.
We will continue to have people going through hell to get to
this country to work, and we will still have employers to hire
them because they have to in order to survive.
Thank you for the symbol,
Duke Smith
DO FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS?
 A number of
our readers wrote in to object to a cartoon by Cuban cartoonist, Ares, equating the Berlin
Wall and the proposed fence between the USA and Mexico. Our readers
all point out that the Berlin wall was built by an oppressive
government to keep it's people from getting out, while the proposed
border fence is to keep our jobs/education/healthcare-seeking
Southern neighbors from getting in. Here are some representative
e-mails and Ares' response. You
can email Ares here.
I agree this is a very sticky
situation, but I don't see a post war wall being built because
of the immigration issues we face. As an ex German citizen I
find your cartoon to be totally baseless and tasteless.
Donnie Graves
Remember the Berlin wall was to keep people in not out. A wall
or fence on our border is no different than a fence around one's
yard. The purpose is to keep out those you don't wish trampling
through your property, but by the same token your family is free
to come and go as they desire.
Bob Miller
Kerrville, TX
He must not know the truth about the Berlin Wall. The communists
built that wall to keep them IN. We want to keep illegals
OUT!
Jack Southerland
From Ares:
FIRST OF ALL, THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS, AND YOUR SERIOUS OPINIONS. IT
S NICE TO KNOW THAT OUR CARTOONS GENERATE DIFFERENT OPINIONS
WITHOUT WALLS!
I KNOW VERY WELL THE HISTORY OF THE BERLIN WALL, AND I KNOW
THE DIFERENCES BETWEEN IT AND THE WALL ON THE BORDER LINE BETWEEN
THE USA AND MEXICO, BUT I (WE) AS CARTOONISTS FRECUENTLY USE
SOME SYMBOLS TO TALK ABOUT VERY DIFFERENT ISSUES, THE FALL
OF THE BERLIN WALL, WAS SEEN AS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW ERA,
AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN THE EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES,
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW WALL BETWEEN THE USA AND MEXICO SHOWS
MANY THINGS TO US, ONE OF WHICH IS THAT THIS IS NOT A NEW ERA.
I USE THIS IMAGE IN MY CARTOONS TO SHOW HOW FREQUENTLY WE DESTROY
ONE WALL TO CREATE A NEW WALL. I REALLY BELIEVE IN A NEW
WORLD WITHOUT ANY CLASSES OR WALLS, NOT IN BERLIN NOT BETWEEN
USA AND MEXICO, NOT NOT IN OUR OWN MINDS!
ARES
MARCH 29, 2006
Here's an interesting, ten year old quote:
"When I go to a gathering of editorial
cartoonists, I feel like I'm at a convention of buggy-whip manufacturers
in the 1920s." -- Stephen Hess, public affairs professor,
George Washington University, 1996
 MARCH
25, 2006
I love to post cartoons that you will never see. Our favorite
greeting card cartoonist, the mysterious Revilo from Hallmark,
is putting out another book --but you won't see this cover on
Revilo's "Funny Business" book -- it seems that some
people at Hallmark didn't think it was funny.
MARCH 23, 2006
DAVID CATROW
David Catrow is one of my favorite cartoonists,
he is a renowned children's book illustrator and he brought a
unique style to editorial cartooning until he quietly faded away
last year. Copley News Service announced that David was taking
a sabbatical to work on animation projects, including the upcoming
"Horton Hears a Who" movie as a character designer.
Regrettably, David decided not to return to editorial cartooning.
He still illustrates for his newspaper, The Springfield (Ohio)
News-Sun, but not as an editorial cartoonist. We still have David's
great editorial cartoon archive posted here, but I've taken his name down from the
updating cartoonists list. David tells me that he doesn't have
strong feelings about every subject, as he thinks an editorial
cartoonist needs to have - interesting because his cartoons have
always put across strong opinions.
Copley News Service recently replaced David with John
Sherffius, another longtime contributor to our site.
STEVE SACK'S AMAZING COLOR
Political cartoonists are sometimes unfairly criticized for being
"all the same" - here is something jarringly different.
Steve Sack has recently started rendering his political cartoons
in stunning, rendered color. Steve is well known for his oil
paintings and now his daily newspaper cartoons look just like
the oil paintings in his Minneapolis gallery. (Steve tells me
that he does them on his computer.) I've never seen this kind
of rendering from an editorial cartoonist - most cartoonists
(like me) who color their cartoons just put in a new layer of
flat tones over a line drawing. Steve is raising the stakes for
us laggards with these brilliant renderings. I've put a few samples
below because I'm so impressed. See Steve's archive here. See Steve's oil paintings here.
 We have lots of zealous cartoons
fans who are regular readers of our site, one of them is Robert
Luczan who recently sent me some photos of his Model A pick-up
truck. Robert has spent 2,000 hours airbrushing tiny cartoon
characters on every square inch of his truck - he calls it a
documentary of the comics on a historic vehicle. Robert notes
that he has expanded the cartoons on the truck to include more
than just characters; he now has wartime cartoon illustrations
and political cartoons festooning his Ford. He sent more photos,
but they made me dizzy. E-mail robert at robertluczun@yahoo.com.
MARCH 22, 2006
The
BBC reports that Sweden's Foreign Minister Lalla Freivalds
has resigned in a scandal that grows out of the Danish Muhammad
cartoons. The Swedish foreign ministry forced a web site to close
down on February 9th, by pressuring the site's hosting company,
when the foreign ministry learned that the Swedish political
site was going to post the Muhammad cartoons. The action by the
Swedish foreign ministry was deemed an inappropriate interference
with the site's press freedom. Freivalds initially denied any
involvement but it was later revealed that she was, in fact,
involved.
The governmennt of Pakistan has "blocked all websites"
that carry caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, according to
a report in the Pakistan
Daily Times, which notes:
... the (pakistani) attorney general
has been asked to explore legal avenues for implementing a global
ban on these sites ... A three-member bench, consisting of Chief
Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Buttar and
Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, issued notices and directed the
attorney general to inform the court next Monday as to how it
could prevent access to such objectionable material on the internet
worldwide. The bench was jointly hearing the petition of Dr Mohammad
Imran Uppal and Maulvi Iqbal Haider, seeking a complete blockage
of sites carrying the cartoons and their depictions.
Iftikhar Rashid, chairman of the Pakistan
Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik
were also present in court. The federal government, the Telecommunications
ministry, PEMRA, PTA, Yahoo Incorporated USA and 1&1 Co,
the host of websites carrying the cartoons, are respondents in
Imran Uppal's petition.
Sites that hosted the cartoons include
our site and MSNBC.com. The government of Pakistan has somehow
blocked access to all of the blogs on blogspot.com. The twelve
sites specifically cited as being banned by Pakistan are:
DrawMohammad.com
The
Nordish Portal
Draw Mohammed Week
Mohammed
drawings (Looks like this site is down)
Free
Speech?
Plus + Ultra
Jesus
and Mo
Zombie's Mohammed Image Archive
Dumb
Religion
Wear
the MohammedBomb (a guy who wants to sell his domain name)
Drawchrist.com
(a site that doesn't seem to have much on it, except a link to
DrawMohammad.com)
It looks to me like these guys didn't do much web surfing research
before taking their case to court.
MARCH 15, 2006
Danish
prosecutors have decided not to press criminal charges against
the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Five men were arrested in London and are
being held on "suspicion of inciting racial hatred"
and "incitement to murder" in connection with Muhammad
cartoons protests in London a month ago. A student editor of the
The editor of the University
of Illinois' student-run newspaper has been fired in the wake of his decision to publish the Danish
Muhammad cartoons. The university board that runs the student
newspaper says the editor was not fired for publishing the cartoons
(which led to angry campus protests) but was fired because he
didn't discuss the matter with others in the newsroom. The student
editor called his firing a blow against free speech and plans
to sue the newspaper.
MARCH 14, 2006
We've just added a great new cartoonist to our site, Frederick
Deligne who draws for Nice-Matin in France. Here are some samples
from Frederick. You can e-mail
Frederick here.
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Bro Russel of the Cartoonists
Rights Network writes:
Hi Daryl,
A few days ago Godfrey Mwampembwa ("Gado") who
draws for The Daily Nation in Nairobi sent me this cartoon. It
is about a major political scandal, involving kickbacks and the
denial of any involvement the Government is making. Government
held a press conference as illustrated below, everybody totally
denying any involvement. As a result of the cartoon, the woman
on the panel, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,
sent Gado a letter warning that she will take legal action
against him for defamation. She had quite a track record for
legal action against the media, two years ago she had 16 separate
suits against various media outlets including one against the
cartoon magazine "Penknife". CRN considers it an abuse
of power for the Minister to use her official letterhead
as a Minister of State to threaten a cartoonist. She notes with Gado
that at the press conference in question she never said anything.
Bro
(Editor's Note: We regret that Gado's cartoons are no longer
featured on our site; his cartoons have been removed at his request,
including this image.)
Yemen is seeking the execution of an editor who published the
Danish Muhammad cartoons. Bloomberg News writes:
``I am afraid but I am also hopeful,''
Muhammad al-Asadi of the Yemen Observer said in a telephone interview
today from the capital, Sana'a. ``We were against the cartoons
and we wanted only to explain about Islam. I hope the judge will
see that.''
Al-Asadi was arrested in February and charged under a press law
that bans publication of anything that ``prejudices the Islamic
faith and its lofty principles, or belittles monotheistic religions
or humanitarian creeds.'' He said the prosecution may be motivated
by the English-language newspaper's reporting on corruption in
the country's embassies. Calls to the Information Ministry, which
oversees the media, weren't answered.
The editor spent 12 days in a prison run by the Prosecutor for
the Press, before being released on bail. Three other Yemeni
journalists also have been jailed for reprinting the cartoons,
which angered Muslims worldwide and led to violent demonstrations
in countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
Fox News reports that although lawyers for a cleric are urging
the judge to condemn the editor, an execution is unlikely. Two
other editors are scheduled to go on trial soon for publishing
the cartoons.
There are a number of reports about the Iranian contest calling
for cartoons mocking Israel and the Holocaust, which was conceived
by the Iranians as a response to the Danish Muhammad cartoons.
The reports note that 200 cartoonists (mostly Iranians) have
entered the contest which has drawn close to 700 entries and
that there are six entries by Americans who are listed as: Mike
Flugennock, Aaron Heineman, Robin Moore, John Bryant, David Baldinger
and Peter Lifton; I've never heard of any of these cartoonists.
The site at http://www.irancartoon.com
is down most of the time, probably because of too much traffic
for their servers to handle.
MARCH 7 2006
Police in London today
said that they were preparing to make a series of arrests in
connection with the violent protests against the publication
of cartoons of Muhammad on February 3rd.
The student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan
is apologizing for printing a cartoon depicting Jesus performing
a sex act on a capitalist pig.
In response to the Muslim cartoon violence, a populist right-wing political party has topped
an opinion poll in Norway, a month after Muslims angered
by cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad burnt Norwegian flags and
embassies in the Middle East. The Progress party, which wants
tighter immigration laws and blames immigrants for much of the
nation's crime, has condemned Muslim extremists and urged Norway's
Labour-led government to stand up more strongly for freedom of
speech.
Pakistan's
president General Pervez Musharraf has said that Muslims
of whole world are united against the publication of blasphemous
cartoons of Prophet Muhammad by Western media and such acts should
not be allowed at any cost. The Spanish King and Prime Minister
sent a message of good-will to President Musharraf and condemned
the publication of sacrilegious caricatures.
The University of South Alabama's student newspaper
will not apologize for reprinting one of the cartoons depicting
the Prophet Muhammad that have spurred protests throughout the
Muslim world, the paper's editor said. Muslim students at the
school have sought an apology since the cartoon appeared in the
Vanguard's Feb. 13 edition. Jeff Poor, editor-in-chief
of the Vanguard, said the newspaper printed the cartoon
in support of freedom of speech and has no intention of apologizing.
MARCH 6, 2006
MORE BIG PROTESTS AGAINST MUHAMMAD CARTOONS
The news reports about the Danish Muhammad cartoon protests have
faded as the story has gotten old, but the protests continue in full force. About 50,000
people joined a street protest in Karachi, Pakistan yesterday.
Many in the crowd chanted, "Hang those who insulted the
prophet." Others burned a Danish flag and hit an effigy
of President Bush with a stick. In Turkey there was a protest
with around 20,000 demonstrating in the eastern city of Erzurum.
Hundreds
of protesters brought chaos to a student panel discussion
at the University of California at Irvine. The discussion was
sponsored by College Republicans. Some Muslims boycotted the
event, calling the Republicans a "fringe group." Three
of the Muhammad cartoons were shown along with three anti-Semitic
cartoons. ABC News reports:
Tensions quickly escalated when the
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the conservative Brotherhood
Organization of a New Destiny, said that Islam was an "evil
religion" and that all Muslims hate America.
People repeatedly interrupted the talk and, at one point, campus
police removed two men, one of them a Muslim, after they nearly
came to blows. Later, panelists were cheered when they referred
to Muslims as fascists and accused mainstream Muslim-American
civil rights groups of being "cheerleaders for terror."
A similar discussion was cancelled
at a Canadian university.
There
are reports in the Danish press about the cartoonists who
drew the Muhammad caricatures; they continue to live in hiding.
There is a dispute about the circumstances involving a number
of Muslims who sought out the daughter of one of the cartoonists
while she was at school. Some reports say there were 12 threatening
Muslim men at the school, other reports say it was a group of
Muslim schoolgirls who sought to threaten the girl. The men or
girls were turned away.
Another staff editorial cartoonist was
fired, Stacy Curtis of the Times of Northwest Indiana, in Munster,
Indiana. Curtis participated on our site years ago, but chose
to leave. He was not syndicated.
MARCH 4, 2006
'TOON HIT AND RUN, MURDER AND CRUSADES
An angry Muslim student at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill has mowed down a number of
his fellow students in his car. Some reports say the Muslim student
was influenced by a recent cartoon controversy at the university
newspaper, which printed
an original cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad on February
9th. Click here to see the cartoon. The cartoonist,
Philip McFee, later drew a self-portrait of himself with a turban-bomb,
an allusion to one of the Danish Muhammad cartoons. Here
is a statement by the student newspaper editor explaining
the controversy.
A
student in Turkey said he was influenced by the Muhammad
cartoons to murder a Catholic priest.
Al
Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called for more attacks
on the West and blamed America for being part of a "crusader"
campaign of offences against the Prophet Muhammad, a reference
to the Danish cartoons.
MARCH 1, 2006
Thousands of Muhammad cartoon
protesters filled the streets of
Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday as a bomb killed four and injured
49 near the US consulate. Some protesters denounced an upcoming
visit by President Bush.
MAIL BAG
Here are some typical selections from
our e-mail bag:
Hello. (In ISLAM emphasis at hello)
I'm moslem in IRAN. If you comprehend importance of PROPHET MOHAMMAD,
Never flout to HIM.
I hopeful that you repent because you work, Otherwise you will
see your afterclap after AGONY and AFTERLIFE.
MOHAMMAD
IRAN
Drawing and publishing cartoons
which are guaranteed to evoke a violent response is the direct
equivalent of "fighting words." Purposely causing a
violent reaction, just to prove you can, is irresponsible and
deplorable.
-- Fred Myers
South Bend, Indiana
Good cartoon.Islam
is a terrorist religion.
SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal
hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take
away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to
come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal
life.
Rev. Don Spitz
THIS IS THE MOST INSENSITIVE
THING I HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE
I am talking about the ones that I have seen portraying the Prophet
Muhammed and the cartoons that I have seen polking fun at the
Muslim people.I did not catch the name of the artists .I just
think it's a little crude and insensitive
Victoria Edwards
Awesome, keep it up...
Bernie Cohen
LOSERS
I saw some of the tasteless drawings depicting Islam and its
prophet. I think that you prove to us time and time again that
you have a long way to go when it comes to freedom of expression,
hauman values, culture. you badly need to be educated on these
matters for your own sake not for anything else!!
I think that you are involved in the industry of hatred, death,
crusade that your president has already started. Believe me that
you are losers since no matter how vicious your crusade is, we
will cling to dear values that guided Europe in the past. But
you have no sense of history just like your dumb Bush!
Needless to say that the so-called freedom of speech and human
right evaporate when it comes to Jews !!
Thanks for proving to the ignorant among our ranks how hypocrite
and coward you are!
Abdullah Alsaad
Hello.....
im sory for your cartoons .
you know any thing on islam or mohamed
?
all your information on this subject from
media which want hert islam .
please read alot on islam befor do any
thing and do any thing you want to do after that...
and ben laden and same are not picture
of islam ...
islam inivet pepole to peace and be kindly...
and any objection from any moslem on cartoons
is normal please put your
self on this situation what will you do if any one hert you on
any thing
which love it...
replay on your self .
thank you
mohamed _ egypt
Subject:
Some Questions
Hi
As the title of my e-mail shows, I would like to ask some questions:
1- Is insulting emotions of more than 1,000,000,000 people freedom
of expression?
2- To what are aimed these cartoons?
3- Why should they be drawn in this critical phase (a phase in
which American Fundamentalists led by Bush' band are trying to
forcely establish a new order (fourth Reich)?
And two other questions indirectly related to recent events:
1- Do you know who and why esablished Al-Qaeda and
Taliban Bands and who and why supported them?
2- Do you know anything about these bands' history?
As you know some 15 years ago, we, the Iranian, were crying
that Saddam was an agent of instability in the region and thus
he had to be overthrown. But, in reply, our civil airplane
was shooted and more than 200 innocent people were
murdered by the US army (to defend Saddam). Years later,
the American understood that Saddam is an agent of instability
in the region (How genius they are!). But in such occasions
we see nothing done by your favoured "artists". Why?
I think those who are leading events such as "cartoons"
are trying to throw the world in fires of a Crusade war, and
no artist (if she/he is really an artist) will help them.
Please keep my name secret
FAKE HOLOCAST!
i am not so hopeful that you read this but i do my duty!
i shoul first introduce myself to you may be it makes you continue
reading my e-mail
i am a college student from iran.and one of those that you think
that they are all terrorists.!!or maybe a ....
i am so surprized by your inteligence!
do you know why?because you didnt say any thing so important
in your cartoons excepot repeating the craziest thing that you
have created for annoying us"FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
do you know what is the difference between you and us(muslims)?
you have all the broadcasting and visual media all over the world
and show peiople of the world what"you PREFER'' from the
truth!
you treat people of the world like a dog !you teach them what
do you want from the to do!
you dont teach them to search about anything that you dont want
to be searched such as PALESTINIANS RIGHT such as HOLOCAST!
BUT YOU TEACH THEM FREEDOM OF SPEECH because the only one who
has air to breath and to talk is you .We not only have not right
to give opinion about a historical case but also havent right
to be angry about becoming bad people in minds of people of the
world!
if this is freedom of speech GODDAMN FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
but i know that you are all unconciousely dolls in the hands
of other people .
GOD BLESS MUHAMMAD
GOD BLESS JESUS
GOD BLESS ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO SHOW OTHER PEOPLE
ALL THE TRUTH!
ZAKARIA WAEZI
WE'RE STILL GETTING MORE E-MAIL ON THE
TRIBUNE COMPANY'S WEITMAN:
These are more copies of e-mails sent
to the Tribune Company's VP of Communications, Gary Weitman,
protesting the Tribune Company's cartoonist layoffs.
As a daily reader of the Baltimore Sun news paper, I am shocked
at the dismissal of KAL'S political cartoons as being nonessential.
Although I am certain that Kal will find more lucrative and friendly
expression of the local and national news in cartoon form etc.
elsewhere I and my family already miss his insightful political
drawings and comments. As much as I will miss KAL, the editorial
and op-ed pages of the Baltimore Sun which have been raped by
the powers that be at the Tribune is a much greater loss. Am
I to infer that the politically conservative leaning at the Tribune
are reflective of the bias that is now obvious in the lack of
informative news coverage?
A sad and frightful time for the news media
and all Americans.
Nina B. Kinsey
Baldwin MD.
Say it ain't so, Gary.
Has the Tribune laid off its editorial cartoonists? If this is
true, this reduces the number of cartoons to syndicate and weakens
your newspaper's interest to a shrinking, but discerning, reading
public.
Deano
NO STAFF CARTOONISTS
Sad...very sad!
Lee Bowen
Please consider your decision
to cut off your own ability to provide intelligent, thought-provoking
stimuli via your papers by use of political cartoons. Often,
I find myself learning of new issues and following them up in
the papers, because I saw an idea or image in the cartoons.
Just as controversial editorials and high-quality news photos
"stir the pot" and make the news more interesting,
I believe the political cartoons do the same in a very interesting
and often emotional-grabbing way. Your cutting off your nose
to spite your face by eliminating these entertaining and often
exciting facts of your papers!
Regards,
Joe Childs
Orlando, FL
I can get my news, sports
and whether from TV.
I can get opinions from Newsweek.
The only reason for reading a newspaper is for the comics.
Keep deleting cartoons from the LA times and I will stop buying
your paper!
David Eisenberger
Dear Sir,
No wonder you don't have and don't want
any political satire in you newspaper. God forbid we actually
laugh at the travesties that have been occurring under this countries
leadership...what with the "War on Terrorism", abridging
our civil liberties, Spying on Americans, opening private mail,
etc. I'm sure you have enough to do pulverizing and slandering
the actual new so that it gets approved by the "Spin Doctors"
in the White House.
Keep up the good work in the "Dummying
of America".
Andrew S. Wilson
I don't read papers
that don't have editorial cartoons. I grew up getting my political
second opion from the Utah Standard Examiner, and their cartoonist,
Mr. Gondahl. Now I go to the Seattle P.I web site to read David
Horsey. I think you plan will back fire. And if it does not than
we as a nation are in a lot of trouble. Good luck sleeping.
Simon Runolfson
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