[Peace-discuss] re: Those cartoons of the Prophet

[Morton K. Brussel]

I don't think, Tom, that this responds to the concerns raised in the  
ZNet article by Baroud—he would not much disagree with what you have  
written; his concerns go beyond what your reference argues.  --Mort

On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Tom Mackaman wrote:

> Reply to Mort's article from Z:  from http://www.wsws.org/articles/ 
> 2006/feb2006/cart-f08.shtml  "Death toll mounts in worldwide  
> protests against anti-Muslim cartoons"
>
> "It is noteworthy that those who have rallied to the defense of the  
> right-wing anti-immigrant newspaper in Denmark that first published  
> the racist cartoons have had little to say about the violence of  
> repressive governments across the Middle East against their own  
> people registering outrage over the widely disseminated insult to  
> their religion.".... and
>
> "Let us pose a question to the crusaders for press freedom.  
> Suppose, on Martin Luther King Day last month, a daily newspaper in  
> Birmingham, Alabama had published a derogatory and racist cartoon  
> of the murdered civil rights leader—something that could only serve  
> to legitimize the revival of racial stereo! typing and repression.
>
> "Suppose further, that this provocative cartoon resulted in angry  
> and even violent protest demonstrations, and that, in “solidarity,”  
> major daily newspapers in the United States proclaimed it their  
> duty to defend “press freedom” by reprinting the overtly racist  
> cartoon on their front pages? What would be the reaction of those  
> who are today lining up behind the right-wing provocateurs in the  
> name of “press freedom”?
>
> "In the heyday of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, American  
> newspapers outside the South would, on occasion, take note of such  
> stereotypes in the Southern press as proof of the ingrained racism  
> of the entire Southern ruling elite. Today, by contrast, press  
> barons are lined up in defense of a right-wing racist provocation  
> against the Muslim population of Western Europe, whose conditions  
> of life, including poverty, job discrimination, housing  
> segregation, police harassment and den! ial of democratic rights,  
> greatly resemble those of black Americans in the old South.
>
> "There is no more “democratic” value in the anti-Muslim cartoons  
> than in the Holocaust-denying screeds of anti-Semitic British  
> author David Irving. But today, as Turkish Foreign Minister  
> Abdullah Gul observed aptly, hostility against Muslims has replaced  
> anti-Semitism as a staple of the European and American press."
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