The Boston Globe has thrown a burkha over the comic strip ‘Opus’ that was scheduled to run last Sunday. Apparently the comic strip was judged potentially offensive to Islam. Funny, I can’t recall the Globe showing similar deference to other religions, especially in its editorial cartoons. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed says on his website that many other papers have refused to run it and will not run his strip for next Sunday either. These papers include the Washington Post. Universal Hub says:…we can all say for sure that the world is a better place today because of the protection the Globe affords us on the comic pages. Thank you, Boston Globe, for your brave stand against potentially offensive humor!
Who are they protecting from ridicule?
Here is the link to the full-size comic, which appears above.
2 comments:
Here's the most ridiculous piece of this puzzle - for the last WEEK, Doonesbury has had a running story line on a terrorist who follows Ray home, and asks where he can find the nearest ammo dump, etc.
If offending Arab/Muslim sensibilites is what's behind this, where is THAT censorship?
Agreed, Porcupine. I see no logical case for the censorship.
But {as noted in the above post)not a single newspaper explained their decision to their readers beforehand or on the day the strip was scheduled. Instead they simply substituted another strip.
That is fitting treatment for young children, but not for paying customers.
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