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ACCIDENTAL HERO

Having taken the bold decision to publish one of those cartoons, Courier-Mail editor David Fagan has been curiously reluctant to comment. Why?

Because, according to one of my News Ltd. spies, the decision to publish wasn’t a bold one at all. Fagan didn’t even know about it. A sub-editor simply noticed a gap on the layout, and filled it with one of the cartoons.

 

Posted by Tim B. on 02/09/2006 at 11:44 PM
  1. Well, somebody deserves a beer and a pat on the back, anyway.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 02 09 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  2. a SUB-versive act. in other words.

    Posted by Louis on 2006 02 09 at 11:58 PM • permalink

  3. Haaaa, haaaa, haaaa, haaaa, ROFL


    Find out who the sub was - we’re issuing a fatwa of our own:

    Cold frosty beer supplied by Nick and Nora.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 02 09 at 11:59 PM • permalink


  4. Deo – as long as Mustafa Shag can’t blow himself up there doesn’t seem to be too much harm.

    Posted by Ralph Wiggum on 2006 02 10 at 12:27 AM • permalink

  5. India cannot be friends with Arab countries

    http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14138044

    “A striking example of Arab racial arrogance is the way their middle-aged men, often married, come to Hyderabad to pick up our young Muslim daughters, pay their parents, go through nikah (marriage rites),enjoy them for some months or years and then dump them. Have you ever heard of an Indian Muslim marrying an Arab woman and treating her the same way?”

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 12:46 AM • permalink

  6. Dance Mohammed Dance.

    Also, as Tim’s link is hard to remember, if anyone is looking for a copy of the cartoons, refer them to muhammadcartoons.com  which hosts the complete collection (not to be confused with drawmohammed.com which has more contemporary cartoons).

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 10 at 12:49 AM • permalink

  7. What’s the difference if the Muslim middle aged beer gutted men are using Indian women as sex toys in real life, as read in today’s article above?

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 12:49 AM • permalink

  8. #5 - Well… Mo can ‘blow’ if he wants to - I just hope it’s not while i’m giving him one.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 10 at 12:52 AM • permalink

  9. Oh, gosh it’s Friday arvo, is it because the sex dolls BLOW up by themselves?

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 12:52 AM • permalink

  10. What an upbeat idea.  Maybe the New York Times will start doing that too, instead of bus-plunge stories.

    Why harp on tragedy all the time.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 02 10 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  11. It’s a worry when they go down on you though..

    Posted by you bet on 2006 02 10 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  12. Just in,


    The chief editor of Peta tabloid, Imam Tri Karso Hadi, was named a suspect Thursday by Bekasi Police for reprinting a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

    “We have named him a suspect. We haven’t detained him yet, because we haven’t finished questioning him,” Bekasi Police chief of detectives Comr. Suwondo Nainggolan told The Jakarta Post.

    The tabloid ran the caricature to accompany an article about the nationwide unrest following the publication of drawings—showing the image of the Prophet—by a Danish daily last September.

    Imam was charged under Article 156 of the Criminal Code on religious blasphemy, which carries a maximum punishment of five years’ imprisonment.—


    5?????? Imagine 5 years in Australia for that?

    Editors must unite!!

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 01:35 AM • permalink

  13. Just in,


    The chief editor of Peta tabloid, Imam Tri Karso Hadi, was named a suspect Thursday by Bekasi Police for reprinting a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

    “We have named him a suspect. We haven’t detained him yet, because we haven’t finished questioning him,” Bekasi Police chief of detectives Comr. Suwondo Nainggolan told The Jakarta Post.

    The tabloid ran the caricature to accompany an article about the nationwide unrest following the publication of drawings—showing the image of the Prophet—by a Danish daily last September.

    Imam was charged under Article 156 of the Criminal Code on religious blasphemy, which carries a maximum punishment of five years’ imprisonment.—


    5?????? Imagine 5 years in Australia for that?

    Editors must unite!!

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 01:35 AM • permalink

  14. Ins’t it basically the same defence that Islamic fascists use - it’s always someone elses fault!

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 10 at 01:59 AM • permalink

  15. #6 - Ratio , temporary marriages are allowed for the Shia.

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 10 at 02:00 AM • permalink

  16. oh! ty week by week.

    I have to address the Fulla doll, as it’s Friday arvo, and I am ready for a Chardonay!

    What if Fulla (looks like Barbie covered up after plastic surgery) could get with Ken?

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 02:06 AM • permalink

  17. Because, according to one of my News Ltd. spies, the decision to publish wasn’t a bold one at all. Fagan didn’t even know about it. A sub-editor simply noticed a gap on the layout, and filled it with one of the cartoons.

    Why do I suddenly have the them from F Troop in my head…?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 10 at 02:08 AM • permalink

  18. Well, the Racism is reversed in Indonesia for blasphemy, I don’t believe the Christians would charge the editor if it was reversed.

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 10 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  19. “Blasphemy occurs: Christians upset, no violence occurs”

    From Michelle Malkin:

    In Poland, Machina magazine published cover art of pop celebrity Madonna’s face superimposed on the Virgin Mary this week. The face of one of her children is superimposed on the figure of the baby Jesus.

    That is highly offensive. Mrs Richie is nothing more than an aging has-been hack.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 02 10 at 02:22 AM • permalink

  20. Hey, that Mustafa Shag ad is on Ann Summers
    website. Surely not the politically correct author of Damned Whores and God’s Police,
    recent leftoid article on New York politics that required extensive corrections by Fairfax editors, etc.
    Oh, it must be some other Ann Summers.

    Posted by percypup on 2006 02 10 at 03:12 AM • permalink

  21. 21. percypup, Ann Summers in the UK is a chain of lingerie stores. Along with your standard bras and g-strings, they also carry a few of the more…. alternative items. Latex underwear, fishnet stockings, body paint (iirc) light fetish stuff.

    That’s what I recall from when I visited one last in 99.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 02 10 at 03:39 AM • permalink

  22. #22- It says on the Anne Summers website that the prophet mohammed blow-up doll has a seven inch peenie.
    Dream on Mr mohammed blow-up doll! I’ve seen you nekkid - it’s more like a junior button mushroom.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 10 at 03:54 AM • permalink

  23. The Sarawak Tribune has been shut down ‘indefinitely’ by the Malaysian government for publishing the cartoons.

    Interesting that Sarawak (on Borneo) is the only state in Malaysia that doesn’t have a Malay Muslim majority.

    A little message to the Chinese and indigenous peoples (Murut, Iban etc) that big brother in KL is watching.

    The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia are fond of sending “messages” to their Chinese minorities.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 02 10 at 04:02 AM • permalink

  24. Sorry, this belongs to an earlier thread.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 02 10 at 04:05 AM • permalink

  25. Did Fagan get his pocket picked?

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 02 10 at 04:06 AM • permalink

  26. Hooray! Having been a copy editor for years (what we Yanks call subeditors) I’m glad to see one strike a blow for freedom.

      *-@o
    \\>:o(>

    Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 02 10 at 10:26 AM • permalink

  27. I’m the last person to know what goes on in a news organization, but isn’t Mr. Fagan going to have to explain to his boss why he wasn’t paying attention?  And isn’t he going to squirm at having to explain himself to his progressive friends at cocktail parties?

    And won’t future historians have a field day (assuming they’re objective types and not the lefty squishies prevalent today) when they write the history of the Cartoon War?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 10 at 11:23 AM • permalink

  28. Ratio 6

    Have you ever heard of an Indian Muslim marrying an Arab woman and treating her the same way?”

    Does me not hearing about it mean it ain’t happening?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 10 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  29. “Having taken the bold decision to publish one of those cartoons, Courier-Mail editor David Fagan has been…”
    GOOD LORD, what have we come to when reporting the news suddenly becomes a BOLD act?

    Posted by stats on 2006 02 10 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  30. Surplus sarcasm detectors, sold at low cost, get yours now!

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 10 at 03:10 PM • permalink

  31. #31PW OOPS, You’re right on, broke myself on that banana peel. Sorry to all.

    Posted by stats on 2006 02 10 at 03:31 PM • permalink

  32. Leunig philosophises in The Age today (along with Spooner, Mark Knight, and Peter Nicholson)
    leunig
    about the Danish cartoons.  Leunig includes this, self-pityingly:
    I note, without surprise, that a couple of prominent Australian media personalities who loudly advocated the Iraq war and who have publicly called for my internment, and that I be taken down because of my cartooning freedom, are now vigorously championing the rights of the Danish cartoonists. Very suspicious!
    well leunig, who are these two prominent Australian media personalities. Please cite their actual words you complain of (are they Siamese twins speaking in unison, by the way?) Why haven’t you named them? There is nothing easier or more gutless than attacking anonymous targets - no names, no packdrill (for Leunig).
    And then this:
    I am also suspicious of the motivation behind the commissioning of the famous Danish cartoons. I suspect that hatred may lie at the heart of the matter, even though hatred is a condition the West increasingly disowns.

    The anti-cartoon riot story, as ugly as it is, must surely be the consequence not only of a handful of dull cartoon cliches, but of the accumulated anger resulting from the humiliation, persecution and suffering inflicted on Islam by the West. The cartoons are taunts, probably deliberate, to an aggrieved and traumatised spiritual community who feel at the mercy of the West’s contempt, ignorance and ruthless military might.
    As Dorothy Parker once wrote: ”“Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

    Posted by percypup on 2006 02 10 at 08:05 PM • permalink

  33. Leunig, still as dumb as ever. Good to know there are still constants in life.

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 10 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  34. Leunatig is representative of the self-hate crowd who urges on Muslims to do what they do best against the West and his own collegues, slash and burn, be-head and murder, send their children to commit suicide murder as a sacrifice to their own rage and greed. Here is Looney Lunny, champion of free speech and artistic expression, letting his hypocrisy hang out before all.

    Posted by stats on 2006 02 10 at 10:22 PM • permalink

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