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A Cartoon Is a Cartoon Is a Cartoon
By Kathleen Parker
Cartoon lunacy has
returned once again with the usual menu of outrage,
effigy-burning, hurt feelings and apologies.
As artists and literalists duke it out both in the
U.S. and in Europe, it no longer seems implausible
that the world will go up in a mushroom cloud
because some fevered fanatic couldn't take a joke.
Or even get it.
In Europe, it's the Swedes this time who have
offended Muslims with cartoons depicting the prophet
Muhammad, including one that shows the prophet's
head on the body of a dog.
Outrage, never far from the front burner where the
date palms grow, was swift. Egypt complained, Jordan
condemned, Afghanistan protested, and Iran -- that
arbiter of taste and protocol -- suggested ways
Sweden could become a better country.
In Pakistan, where effigies are a cottage industry,
"Muslim youth" burned a straw likeness of Swedish
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who bravely and
beautifully articulated why Westerners allow
cartoonists to be offensive:
"We are eager to ensure that Sweden remains a
country in which Muslims and Christians ... can live
side by side in a spirit of mutual respect," he
said. "We are also eager to stand up for freedom of
expression, which is enshrined in the constitution
... which ensures that we do not make political
decisions about what gets published in newspapers."
Hear, hear.
As in the case with the Danish cartoons that sparked
riots in 2006, this batch may be offensive without
being especially humorous or trenchant. A drawing
does not a cartoon make.
But Western principles protecting the right of free
speech allow even for mediocre expression. And
principles of tolerance mean not just for others'
beliefs, but also sometimes for our own hurt
feelings.
These lessons of freedom and tolerance, which we
can't seem to export with much success, are also
apparently lost on some American newspaper editors
who declined recently to run two of Berkeley
Breathed's "Opus" comic strips out of concern -- or
was it fear? -- that they were potentially offensive
to Muslims.
Breathed's home paper, The Washington Post, was
among 25 that opted out. (Disclaimer: Breathed and I
are both syndicated by The Washington Post Writers
Group and I confess to great affection for Opus, who
is a penguin.)
Except for the timing of these two cartoonish
eruptions, Breathed's comics and the European
depictions wouldn't belong in the same paragraph.
When it comes to quality of execution and depth of
thought, there's little comparison.
Breathed's strips were so good, in fact, that the
wrong people are offended. Now that's funny. He
wasn't ridiculing Muslims; he was making fun of
Americans, especially the macho, hubristic variety
who think they know what's best for everyone else.
To paraphrase another cartoon character, we have met
the joke and it is us. Where is the outrage?
The first "Opus" strip, which can be viewed on
Salon.com and at comics.com, shows Lola Granola
dressed in a Muslim headscarf and veil.
"A Muslim fundamentalist?" asks her boyfriend,
Steve. "No. Radical Islamist. Hot new fad on the
planet." The final panel suggests that, given Lola's
new identity, Steve will be denied her affections.
The second strip continues the plotline and shows
Lola and Steve preparing for the beach. Steve urges
Lola to wear that "smokin' hot yellow polka dot
bikini" and reminds her, "You love freedom. You love
hotness. And you love that I'm so darned smart about
what's best for you." Lola emerges from the dressing
room covered head-to-toe in a "burqini."
OK, who gets the joke?
Interpreting cartoons is risky business, as they're
not intended to be taken literally. And, reading
letters posted at Salon.com, it's clear that
everyone has his own interpretation of what the
strips are saying. Breathed himself prefers to stay
strictly out of it.
What seems clear, however, is that strip is making
fun of a certain shallowness on our side of the
pond. Breathed is often hard on males and no one
looks more foolish in these strips than the
character Steve, who is oblivious to all but his own
needs and desires.
If anyone is offended, it should be American males.
What is also clear is that the editors who killed
these strips surrendered in advance of controversy.
Thanks to previous acts of protest and intimidation,
radical Muslims have succeeded in directing
editorial content of America's free, and formerly
courageous, press.
The joke really is on us. And it's not funny.
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