Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Sometimes Headlines Write Themselves
Straight out of Toon Town, I guess, since that's the only place that this could happen at first glance. You'd look at the headline "Four die in Afghan cartoon riot," and the first thing that comes to mind is "Is John Kricfalusi at it again?" But no, that's not the case here. We've all heard about the political cartoons that satirize Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Somebody call the Waaaaaaahmbulance, becuse the Muslims are cranky again. At any rate, protestors turned violent (surprise) while heading to an American Military base (surprise, though we had nothing to do with the cartoons, the Danes did), and police were forced to fire into the crowd, killing four people. I guess one of Muhammad's teachings was "Thou shalt not take a joke." (Link)