Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:05 PM
louis-t (12,543 posts)
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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| Author | Time | Post | |
| louis-t | Sep 2012 | OP | |
| ZombieHorde | Sep 2012 | #1 | |
| dipsydoodle | Sep 2012 | #2 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Sep 2012 | #3 | |
| Pterodactyl | Sep 2012 | #4 | |
| Bucky | Sep 2012 | #5 | |
| meow2u3 | Sep 2012 | #6 |
Response to louis-t (Original post)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:13 PM
ZombieHorde (24,094 posts)
1. That is the spirit!
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No need for killing over cartoons.
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Response to louis-t (Original post)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:20 PM
dipsydoodle (33,155 posts)
2. Well I suppose
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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
Spitfire of ATJ (7,874 posts)
3. "Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves."
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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
Pterodactyl (1,046 posts)
4. Cartoons versus cartoons! Much more civilized.
Response to louis-t (Original post)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:03 AM
Bucky (41,687 posts)
5. A free exchange of ridicule and scorn? It'll never work!
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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
meow2u3 (14,015 posts)
6. That's how freedom of expression works! WTG, Egypt
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Fight words and pictures with more words and pictures.
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