editorial cartoons

I'm sure the world can do without another cartoon on the subject of the Islam-cartoon row...so here it is. The huge sense of outrage expressed by many Muslims around the world (most notably in the middle east) over the cartoons seems - to the western secular mind - kind of strange, considering that there are far more tangible examples of defilement by the "infidel west" in Muslim lands. US and British tanks are pretty tangible. Maybe the outrage at the cartoons is a sublimation of an anger whose real objects are less forgiving.

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