From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 09 Feb 2006 - 03:09:55 GMT
>From: Wade Allsopp <wade.allsopp@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Cartoon meme
>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:08:40 +0000
>
>On 2/8/06, Douglas Brooker wrote:
>
> > latest story at the guardian.co.uk is that the original paper in Denmark
> > is joining up with the Iranian paper that's having a holcaust cartoon
> > contest - they're hoping to publish the winning entries jointly.
>
>
>That's an interesting development. British TV showed an example of
>one of these "holocaust" cartoons 2 days ago published by the Arab
>European League. A picture of Anne Frank in bed with Adolph Hitler and
>another denying the holocaust took place.
>
>The matter seems to have metamorphasised from a test of the principle
>of free speach by an obscure Danish newspaper following the viist to
>the Middle East by Ahmad Abu Laban of the Islamisk Trossamfund and
>Akhmad Akkari, spokesman of the Danish-based European Committee for
>Prophet Honouring. along with some supporters who took along a 43 page
>dossier including the cartoons and some considerably more provocative
>images.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy#_note-0
>
>I presume what their underlying intention was was to help isolate the
>muslim population in Denmark from the native population which of
>course they have managed to do in spades.
>
>I'd say that publishing Holocaust cartoons will just further this
>isolation as I think the reaction of most Westerners will be: Hold on
>a minute: publishing a cartoon that suggests that there is a link
>between Islam and terrorism (especially in the context of having daily
>images of islamic extremists blowing 30-50 fellow muslims up with
>suicide bombs or beheading aid workers, and the historic Muhammad
>himself being a pretty accomplished warrior ) isn't quite in the same
>category as denying the fact that Hitler killed 6 million Jews or
>advocating the Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth.
>
Or invoking the blood libel:
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/arab/cartoon_arab_press_080702.asp
The ironies of these recent events astound me.
>
>From the perspective of memetics I think one needs to look at the
>whole Islam memecomplex and in particular the protective strength to
>the religion given by thehypersensitivity to criticism aspects of the
>ideology.
>
Yeah, but you don't want to dwell on such topics on this list, lest you get
warned by the moderator (hint, hint).
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