[Peace-discuss] When a Cartoon is not a Cartoon

Wendy Edwards wedwards at uiuc.edu
Fri Feb 10 15:45:13 CST 2006


I put up something in my blog linking to this and the article:
http://mrscake.livejournal.com

It may draw some comments.  Feel free to say whatever - I only delete
creepy/trollish stuff.

Wendy

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:30:57PM -0800, David Green wrote:
> This link was passed along to me:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> In case you aren?t award of it today?s Daily Illini
> reprinted six of the offensive cartoons originally
> published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
> Some students may want to discuss some of the issues
> raised thereby. I thought the most useful thing for
> now would be to circulate a brief primer on the issue
> of images in Islamic culture and on the cartoons
> specifically, which I am attaching and copying below.
> For an eloquent discussion of the issues raised by the
> cartoons I recommend a piece by our own Behrooz
> Ghamari-Tabrizi
> http://www.iranian.com/Ghamari/2006/February/Cartoon/index.html
> 
> 
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> 
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