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Careful Dan, you'll upset the religious establishment.

The Amazing Jim on March 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM

Yeah, especially since I live a block away from your offices!

Bub on March 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM

I think this is a good idea.

Faber on March 10, 2010 at 10:22 AM

Why doesn't The Stranger publish them anyway?

you infidel dog coward pussies...

on March 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM

I'm waiting for the cartoon of Muhammad fucking a camel, because, you know, that was the only way that sick fucker could get any at all. If I draw it, will you publish it?

Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM

Why do you never say anything to offend Muslims?! I mean, um, Christians!

giffy on March 10, 2010 at 10:29 AM

Because we can mock Islam at will and with impunity:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en…

Heather on March 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM

@4: We did publish them.

Dan Savage on March 10, 2010 at 10:35 AM Stranger Staff

Excellent idea.

David Wright on March 10, 2010 at 10:40 AM

Jihad Jane is a textbook example of what happens to people who spend too much of their time horsin' around the Internet.

on March 10, 2010 at 10:42 AM

I would like to see a contest to see who can make the most offensive Mohamed cartoon. Slog / Stranger readers are a creative bunch, so there would be some great stuff. Maybe throw some offensive Jesus cartoons in there to even things out as well?

on March 10, 2010 at 10:59 AM

@11, I love it. I am sick of Muslim outrage.

kulshan on March 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM

the article isn't even about the Danish cartoons. It's about a cartoon by a Swede.

on March 10, 2010 at 11:26 AM

Great idea!

merry on March 10, 2010 at 11:26 AM

@ 11, there are lots of good blasphemous images of Mohammed and Jesus if you do a Google search (including one of Mohammed giving Jesus a blow job, but I suppose we can always use new ones.

Heather on March 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM

Agreed, but threats are enough reason. Publish it.

MoonPatrol on March 10, 2010 at 11:29 AM

The New York Times reports that Colleen R. LaRose – a blonde, green-eyed American from the suburbs of Philadelphia who called herself Jihad Jane on an Internet posting – stands accused of linking up with militants over the Internet to plot terrorist acts. ...

Racist, much?

What struck me is that she's clearly an unrepentant whore, showing her uncovered face in public like that.

Dingo on March 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM

Great idea that will never happen. Newspapers, it was nice knowing you.

iLLogicaL on March 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Why is it that all those, who buy into the "must republish anti-muslim cartoons because of death threats" haven't said boo about, much less feel the need to republish Mark Fiore's cartoon animation after he received death threats from teabaggers? Now I expect this sort of lame-ass double standard from the right wing, but I don't recall ever seeing this mentioned in the Stranger, much less republished or even linked to. If you're going to get caught up in the right-wing's manufactured outrage, at least have the good sense to respond in kind when the act exactly like those they condemn (and you joined them in condemning).

http://www.markfiore.com/mark-fiore-blog…

JohnnyC on March 10, 2010 at 11:56 AM

After this and the "Are you gay?" idea, I'm thinking Dan Savage should be ombudsman FOR AMERICA.

JRB on March 10, 2010 at 12:01 PM

I think that the cartoon was insensitive and out of line, but the reactionaries are just jumping enough sharks to fill the private aquarium of the average Bond villain. This actually would be a good way to deter the nutjobs from any more assassination attempts.

venomlash on March 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM

@19 I am not sure that is really comparable. This has not only been death threats, but also bounties being placed and actual attempts. Plus you had major demonstrations with the usual yelling and burning of things.

Lots of people get death threats all the time, this is a few levels above.

giffy on March 10, 2010 at 12:12 PM

Colleen LaRose??

Of all the theist nuts, the converts are the worst. At some arabic person has the excuse of being born in this crap.

sirkowski on March 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM

Swedish papers are republishing them.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/s…

Ken on March 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM

Are there any Muhammad shaped journalism awards yet?

OuterCow on March 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM

Great idea. What should the newspapers do about the continuing civilian deaths at the hands of US/NATO forces, for example, the 16+ deaths confirmed by NATO in the assault on Marja? Hmmm?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/world/…

Voltairine on March 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM

Step one: draw a figure. It can be any figure, like a stick figure or a snowman or a toaster oven

Step two: write "Mohammad" underneath. It's a common name, anyway.

Step three: have angry Islamists coming to kill you.

on March 10, 2010 at 5:29 PM

Radical Muslims are as sick as the Christian Taliban. Christians have killed abortion doctors, and Muslim nutcases killed Theo van Gogh - not to mention the incredibly sad 'honor killings' done in the name of their goofy gods.

John Lennon was right: Imagine no religion!

blackhook on March 10, 2010 at 7:35 PM

Just the one god actually.

zhirzzh on March 10, 2010 at 9:07 PM

And which "one god" would that be? Yours or mine?

Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 10, 2010 at 9:30 PM

You see, here's the funny part: You're "one god" says "kill all the unbelievers." And you assume that my "one god" says "peace, love, turn the other cheek." But the joke's on you, because my "one god" says nuke you fucking cretins into the Goddamned stone age."

You should be very thankful my finger isn't on the button.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 10, 2010 at 9:36 PM

Well, there's actually a shit ton of stuff that's contradictory within the religions. In Islam, for example, there are passages from the Koran and the Hadith that variously say, in essence, things like "coexist peacefully with Jews and Christians", "don't be ruled by non-Muslims", and "kill teh Jews". Sadly, a lot of people in any religion cherry-pick the "kill" ones rather than the "play nicely" ones.

venomlash on March 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM

You've been reading "Freakonomics". It's a neat thought, perhaps that would change the payoff function of the extremists sufficiently to prevent this from happening. Or perhaps it would not. The only problem is that these images are indeed somewhat vile, crude and inciting hatred, so do we really want to go down that road? Given that ex-post it would hardly be an appropriate response to such an event, once can doubt the credibility of any such commitment.

Aruhea on March 12, 2010 at 2:29 AM

Brilliant.

This reminds me of the pro-choice group somewhere that had a fundraiser. People pledged to contribute X amount of money for each hour that ant-choice activists picketed abortion clinics...

BmuthafuckinRad on March 13, 2010 at 11:18 AM

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