February 6, 2006

  • An Opportunity To Judge For Yourself


    If you haven't yet seen the 'Mohammad cartoons' and want to know what all the fury's about, you don't really have to see them - you just need to understand that any image of the Prophet is considered by some Muslims as incitingly sacrilegious.  And thus are they blowing themselves up with anger.


    I thought about posting reproductions of the cartoons here.  Why? 


    1) Because it has taken me 3 days to find depictions of these cartoons and that's just wrong  considering how prominently in the news they figure.  I should have the opportunity to judge myself  and not be censored by the reaction (suppressing the cartoons' distribution) to the reaction (violent protests, burning embassies, death threats, etc.).


    2) I'm personally not offended by them and think that anyone that is should keep their religion in their heart and not act it all out violently.   I consider the violence that has followed their publication to be the true evil; not the cartoons themselves.


    3) I'm already 'not for Prophet', no doubt thus doomed by my blogging namesake in many a Muslim radical mind.  Bring it on, baby.  Bring it on.


    The one reason I hesitate to republish them here is that there's a remote chance that I could cause Xanga some grief.  I'd feel very bad if I put up the cartoons on Xanga and the Xanga N.Y. offices got picketed by radical Muslim theocrats as an unjustified consequent to the claim that Xanga was hosting these cartoons.  But that takes me full circle back to item #1 above.


    Now I could just publish a couple of links to the images.  Those links might be:


    http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004440.htm


    or


    http://www.humaneventsonline.com/sarticle.php?id=12146



    That takes Xanga 'out of the picture(s)' because they are links not hosted  on Xanga servers.


    There's also another link not hosted , I repeat not hosted on Xanga servers.  And that link looks like this in html:  IMG src="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/facesgallery.jpg" .  


    Note that michellmalkin.com is NOT Xanga. Hence, Xanga is still  'out of the picture(s)'.


    Of course, this external, non-Xangan IMG src= (image source) link is often rendered graphically if correctly inputted to many browsers.  Many of you probably would see the link thusly:




    Though some of you might see no difference if your browser had image rendering turned off or if you  were using a text-only browser such a Lynx. 


    "Whoa," some of you are gasping.  "That's on Xanga!"  No, it's not on Xanga.  It's only on the the referenced websites and in your browser.  Anyone truly offended by this to the point of violence and  appreciative of the workings of html would most likely (and properly) conclude that the whole Internet is evil and worthy of jihadic destruction.


    No, no, I will not host these cartoons on Xanga.  But a link is a link is merely a link.

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