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Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:05 PM

Egypt newspaper fights cartoons with cartoons

Source: Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Amid outrage sparked by perceived insults to Islam, one Egyptian newspaper has decided to fight cartoons with cartoons.

Al Watan daily says it is responding to the crude caricatures published last week by a satirical Parisian weekly in kind: a series of sketches critiquing relations between the Arab world and the West.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-newspaper-fights-cartoons-cartoons-184149951.html



Best. response. ever. Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves.

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louis-t Sep 2012 OP
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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:13 PM

1. That is the spirit!

No need for killing over cartoons.

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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:20 PM

2. Well I suppose

if they do any in English and use the odd word which you'd find REALLY offensive you will of course just swallow it.

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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:14 PM

3. "Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves."

Like the old one of Jesus walking into a hotel and tossing three big nails on the counter and asking if they can put him up for the night.

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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:35 PM

4. Cartoons versus cartoons! Much more civilized.

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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:03 AM

5. A free exchange of ridicule and scorn? It'll never work!

In American we don't call that free press; we call it campaigning.

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Response to louis-t (Original post)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:25 AM

6. That's how freedom of expression works! WTG, Egypt

Fight words and pictures with more words and pictures.

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