Jarndyce ably sums up his position on those cartoons and, incidentally, pretty much sums up my attitude to them too.
Go read. Especially as it looks like being his last post for quite some time...
Lenin chooses to see caricatures of a long-dead desert Arab as a cipher for how the West sees Muslims. I don't know where he lives, but it's not how we see Muslims round here. We tend to see them as "mate" or "neighbour".
And all quite different, of course, from saying I sympathise with the actual pictures or their, largely crude and unpleasant, message or context. Or that I personally condone offending the devout gratuitously.
Go read. Especially as it looks like being his last post for quite some time...
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