What Was it a Caricature of Again?
The circus around Vilks’ drawings continues. In a column in today’s DN points out that the caricatures aren’t really of Muhammad at all. In fact, they were intended to point out that the art community of Sweden’s really a hen house. Full of chickens.
Right next to the column, the picture of Mohammad as a roundabout dog is published.
Meanwhile, Minaret - the muslim culture journal - really has backed off and decided not to participate in anything to do with the drawings. Apparently, they are an attack on islam and all muslims. Muhammed Omar, editor-in-chief, even has the gall to compare it to anti-semitism. Nima Daryamadj rightly points out that there’s a bit of a difference between heckling a large group of people who were systematically executed in living memory and heckling this one guy who has been dead for the past 1400 years, and whom most of humanity doesn’t attach any particular significance to anyway.