[Peace-discuss] Re: Statement from Palestinian advocacy group

[Tom Mackaman]

 "Some who defend the publication of the cartoons claim they are examples of   satire—as though crude appeals to the basest and most bigoted impulses can be   equated with genuine social or cultural criticism. In fact, the images plastered   on the pages of European newspapers and broadcast on television news programs   have far more in common with the type of anti-Semitic caricatures made infamous   by the Nazis than they do with satire.  That such outpourings can have anything to do with a struggle for secularism   in opposition to religious belief is absurd. A genuine critique of religion can   be conducted only on the highest intellectual level, appealing to science and   reason—not ignorance and fear."
  
  From "European media publish anti-Muslim cartoons: An ugly and  calculated provocation"   http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/cart-f04.shtml
  
  
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