Behold Doones-hammed!!

Newsbusters reports  hat tip,  Hot Air 

Gary Trudeau, creator of the 'Doonesbury' comic strip, says cartoonists should draw the line when it comes to offending people. In an interview published in the Santa Barbara Independent:

Q. What did you make of the Danish cartoon mess? I understand that you said you would never play with the image of Allah. But did you feel you should have done so out of a sense of professional solidarity, or to make a statement about freedom of speech?

A. What exactly would that statement be? That we can say whatever we want in the West? Everyone already knows that. So then the question becomes, should we say whatever we want? That, to me, is the crux. Do you hurt people just because you can? Because you feel they shouldn’t be deeply hurt, does that mean they aren’t? Should the New York Times run vicious caricatures of blacks and Jews just to show the First Amendment in action? At some point, common sense and sensitivity have to be brought to bear.

Behold, Doones-hammed!! He negotiates with a sword.

Allah Pundit of Hot Air (see above link) asks;
Exit question for Trudeau: would it make any difference to his free-speech hypothetical if blacks or Jews were threatening to kill Bill Keller if he ran vicious caricatures of them? What would “common sense” counsel in that case?

Comments

[Brooke]

What a dhimmi.

[Debbie]

He never had any problem making fun of conservatives. I guess they are lower on the food chain than Mohammad

[kevin]

On the nose Debbie, it's ok to worship a genecidal, pedophilic who beheaded the entire male population of Medina, but Bush gunning for Saddam is unthinkable. The far left prefers the terrorists to Republicans.