Apologies from this cartoonist? No way ("What Would Mohammed Drive?")

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | 1/5/03 | Doug Marlette

[wcbtinman]

"Quite a few threatened mutilation and death."

Well, maybe he should act in the manner described in the Torah, and kill them first.

Actually, if someone threatened me in such a manner, as a Christian I might employ the same strategy.

[aimhigh]

"Osama" is now one of the most popular names for new born Arab males.

[eno_]

Marlette's response is suprisingly strong. I'm amazed his syndicator and their customers didn't manage to extract at least a half apology and some groveling to the "religion of peace." he does dip into relativism a couple times, but basically he's saying its the Moslems fault they are percieved as backwards and bloodthirsty. He is right on in his criticism of CAIR, which can't seem to disavow terrorism without using the word "but" in the middle of every sentence.

[SAMWolf]

Bumping.

I hate when different papers change the title of the article. Sorry I eneded up posting a duplicate thread

[riri]

I looked for his email and they only had a physical address. Any idea of his email? I would like to send him a thanks for standing tall.

[BullDog108]

[DWar]

Given the nature of Mohammad's "ministry" in which he used the most modern weapons available in his day to kill or assimilate the nations of his world into his belief system, how can anyone deny that he would do the same today?

[SAMWolf]

Try this address: inquiry@dougmarlette.com

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

If some people take this cartoon as offensive i think it's funny that they are offended.

[Grut]

Just ask the Arabs currently being held in detention without being charged with a crime. That's how it works in totalitarian regimes.

'Arabs' like Yaser Hamdi?

[Howlin]

My all time favorite Marlette cartoon:

[Celtjew Libertarian]

After all, we don't need constitutional protection to run boring, inoffensive cartoons. We don't need constitutional protection to make money from advertising. We don't need constitutional protection to tell readers exactly what they want to hear. We need constitutional protection for our right to express unpopular views.

Just wanted to see that passage again.

[Soaring Feather]

No one is less tolerant than those demanding tolerance. A certain humorlessness, self-righteousness and literal-mindedness bind them. Despite differences of culture and creed, they all seem to share the egocentric notion that there is only one way of looking at things -- their way -- and that others have no right to see things differently.

Here is my answer to them: In this country, we do not apologize for our opinions. Free speech is the linchpin of our republic. All other freedoms flow from it. I realize this may be a repugnant concept for many of those who wrote, but let me be clear. I do not apologize for my drawing.

As a free verse writer of poetry I wish to add a huge AMEN to this author/cartoonists thoughts! This is the United States of America, what he draws and what I write are our opinions, thoughts, feeelings, etc. We have the right to express them with out running around apologizing for them!

[squibs]

It usually turns out that those " offended "
are because the truth strikes home , and
thay don't like it.

[squibs]

thay = they

[SAMWolf]

If we can't discuss the great issues of the day on those pages of our newspapers, fearlessly and without apology, where can we discuss them? In the streets with guns? In cafes with detonator vests and strapped-on bombs?

The prefered methods of the likes of Hamas, PLO, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

I'm so sick of the Liberals with their opinion of "You only have the right to say what you want, as long as it's something I want to hear"

[DeFault User]

Marlette's cartoons and comic strips have had poignant messages over the years. He went after the hypocrisy and the money grubbing of the Bakkers and their Pass the Loot Club with vigor.

But he couldn't deny the pull of his Southern roots. Look at the preacher's battle with PC feminism in his Kudzu strip. At times the preacher is lampooned for his ambition and ego; at others he sticks it to the feminists.

Now he takes on the hypocrisy of Islam with no fear. I hope he wins another Pullitzer for it.

[lodwick]

Great post - thank you.

[aruanan]

("What Would Mohammed Drive?")

Something with fur and four on the floor.