What an incredible story!
Who would have believed that possible still in 2006?

A dozen of cartoons were published in a Danish newspaper (Jyllands-Posten) last September. They were published recently again in a magazine in Norway.
The cartoons were realized by the following cartoonists :

- Franz Fuchsel
- Rasmus Sand Hoyer
- Poul Erik Poulsen
- Erik Abild Sorensen
- Claus Seidel
- Lars Refn
- Bob Katzennelson
- Peter Bundgaard
- Jens Julius
- Annette Carlsen
- Arne Sorensen
- K. W.

To see them in details, click on the following thumbnail :

THE 12 CARTOONS



Now, there are our Muslim friends whining, lamenting, spitting and struggling for some caricatures (really inoffensive ones!) of their cherished prophet Muhammad, founder of their religion.
This event was shamefully recovered by their religious and politial leaders who encourage people to go on the streets and shouting all kinds of slogans anti-occidental.

I have my trip! ;0)
(Québec's expression meanings : « That exceeds my understanding! »)

These people doen't know at all the meaning of the word democracy, whose freedom of speech is the base...

They seem to have the brain completely washed by their own religion and, unfortunately, not to have any common sense.
What's the problem for them, to see some caricatures of Muhammed published in democratic countries like Denmark or Norway?
As if there were no caricatures of Jesus drawn since more than a century?
What's wrong with that?

It's where we realize that we really don't share the same culture...
In Occident, it is an HONOUR to be caricatured!
Imagine : somebody who finds that a subject has enough interest to spend a few hours to make of it a good drawing, it is an honour for the subject!

It is something that I can't understand!
Is their belief either so fragile that some drawings come to threaten them at the point where It is necessary to tear their shirt of indignation in the face of the world?

HEY! IT'S JUST SOME LITTLE DRAWINGS!
NOTHING TO WHIP A CAT!
(As we say in French. That means there is nothing there.)

As a cartoonist myself, I feel very preoccupied by those events.

I find that these kind of people are dangerous. They probably miss education and knowledge of the external world. Their religious and political leaders benefit outrageously from their ignorance to control them and to make them believe almost anything!

Calm yourself! Come back to earth in the REAL world.

LONG LIVE TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH!

I'm waiting for your RIPOSTES IN BURST...