Fundamentards

Today, ABC news reported that the "US Backs Muslims in Cartoon Dispute."

We personally would have written a different headline: "US Continues to Discourage Freedom of the Press ; encourages self-censorship" has a nice ring. Or perhaps "Fundamentalist Christians in Power Support Fundamentalist Muslims Out of Power; support limited to content of funny pages."

I also would have subsumed a variety of cartoons in my analysis: remember when Mary Worth refused to wear a burka? Who can forget the day when Ziggy stared off into a huge sunset and reflected upon the fact that all the Jews wouldn't just be Left Behind, but actively dropped into the fiery pits of Hell for all eternity?

In any case, we truly appreciated the State Department's spokesman's assertion that "Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this way is not acceptable."

Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds by abandoning the Nuremburg principles and shitting on the U.N. charter, toppling the governments of sovereign nations, imposing Federalism on arbitrarily-delineated, colonially demarcated states, destroying both humans and basic infrastructure and subsequently failing to establish pre-war levels of sewage treatment, potable water, or electricity, on the other hand, is just not only acceptable, it's sound foreign policy. You know, Spreading Freedom and sich.

The entire situation -- protesters, supporters, commentators -- is pretty much dominated by fucktards. Sadly, we don't really get most of the cartoons. Perhaps they're hilarious in Danish.