Monday, March 13, 2006
Wheee!
Update: I'm not finding the "Over 100 deaths" number confirmed anywhere. The numbers I've seen all hover around 50. Does anyone have a source?
This might be fun to watch.
To the Daily Cal!
The reprinting of two of the cartoons in the Patriot comes on the heels of a Feb. 28 unveiling of the cartoons at UC Irvine and last Friday at UCLA by student group L.O.G.I.C. (Liberty, Objectivity, Greed, Individualism, and Capitalism).
I believe the Bureau of Stupid Names for Organizations, or BoSNO, has been mobilized.
But senior Khalid Mansour, president of the Cal Muslim Student Association, said he disagreed with the assertion that the published images are just a show of free speech.
Mansour said that the Patriot was promoting the "racist and Islamophobic agenda" of the original cartoons, and an analytic piece without the images would have enabled the publication to express its views in a fair way.
Let's think about that for a moment: It would've been more fair for them to make their views on the cartoons known without actually showing the cartoons. Fairness is inhibited by access to the material being discussed. It reminds me of the failure of the EU Constitution, where showing it to the voters was said to be unfair to the supporters.
"Yeah, they have the right to free speech, but what they did was very insensitive and very provoking," he said. "They're bringing something with a hateful agenda to the forefront."
A real reporter would've then asked "What is that agenda? What are they trying to accomplish." A real reporter, of course, would not be working for The Daily Cal.
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