Cartoon War - 2 comments
You may have heard about certain controversial cartoons of Mohammed that have attracted a lot of controversy, and calls for censorship of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and other Scandinavian papers that have published them. According to the Pub Philosopher, who has been tracking the issue:
Radical Muslim groups are turning up the heat in the cartoon war by using mass e-mails and text messages to organise a boycott of Danish goods in Islamic countries.Well, they can all be viewed here, with commentary. As you can see, they're not exactly hot stuff - not when you've been brought up on a diet of Steve Bell.
Update: Paul Anderson says he likes the virgins cartoon. Well, I guess there isn't one that's obviously better...
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Lord Stoddart of Swindon, (Ind Lab), backed the move to a voluntary scheme warning that "all of the new measures which have been taken by this government over quite a long period of time, contain the elements of a fascist state".
Britain was "preaching to many other countries about democracy. It wants democracy in Iraq, it wants democracy in Iran. It wants democracy everywhere except perhaps in this country itself. "The measures it is introducing are undermining the democracy which has been built up over many hundreds of years.
"There is a creeping competence of all sorts of authorities in this country to have control over the individual.
"Look at some of the incidents that have happened of late, where an author on the BBC makes a certain statement about homosexuals and before very long the police are telephoning her, or on her doorstep, asking her to justify those statements.
"What is happening is that the police are becoming the arbiters of what is free speech and that is very serious indeed.
"Members of this house and the Commons ought to understand how their freedoms are being undermined by a host of measures which are coming forward piecemeal.
"If they don't do that they will find themselves in a state where the administration has complete control over the individual.
"And the freedom of the individual has always in this country been the bedrock of our very democracy. There is a real danger if we are not careful that we will be in the sort of society which many of us fought against in the last war.
"I had been in the Labour party for 54 years before they expelled me and I know what the Labour party I joined stood for, and it didn't stand for the sort of measures like the identity cards being brought forward by New Labour."
Thanks for sharing that with us, Lord Stoddart, but it's not immediately relevant to the current discussion. Or is it? B4L opposes ID cards, and I take your anti-authoritarianism to mean you support the wider dissemination of these 'evil' cartoons.
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