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Two student editors at the University of Illinois have been suspended for unauthorised publication of blasphemous Motoons. Defending themselves, the pair should cite SBS executive producer Mike Carey’s reasons for broadcasting similarly controversial images. “I’m a reporter,” said fearless Carey. “We put them to air because it’s our responsibility as reporters to get this stuff on air.”
You tell ‘em, Mike! Those two-year-old pictures needed to be seen so that people—especially those members of the enraged Arab community—would be fully informed:
Previously unpublished images of apparent abuse of prisoners at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison, broadcast by Australia’s SBS television on Thursday, have stirred up more anger among Arabs after being shown by Arab stations.
The images, also published yesterday at smh.com.au, were swiftly re-broadcast by Arab satellite television stations and several news organisations including American ABC News television.
The pictures further enraged Arabs, already incensed by the publication on Sunday of images of British soldiers apparently beating Iraqi youths and by cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammad printed in European papers this month.
Note again the willingness of the media to excite Muslim anger in cases where none of that anger might be directed towards the media. Well, that’s not exactly true; SBS is willing to excite Muslim anger towards the Danish media by inaccurately reporting that an image of pig-snouted Mohammed was among the cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten. That error would have been avoided if SBS had researched and broadcast the original 12 cartoons; you know, because it’s “our responsibility as reporters to get this stuff on air.”
But that would have placed SBS at risk (at the least, of appearing insensitive). And that’s a risk SBS won’t take. Risk to coalition troops is another matter:
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said abuses at Abu Ghraib prison had already been “fully investigated”, and the US Defence Department believed the release of the images was harmful and “could only further inflame and possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world”.
However, in Sydney, Dateline’s executive producer, Mike Carey, dismissed the US military’s criticism as a joke. “Troops are already at great risk in Iraq,” he said.
You aren’t, Mike. Your network has made sure of that.
UPDATE. In other cartoon developments, Michael Leunig anticipated hate following his appearance in an Iranian Jew-mocking contest:
Leunig said he was dreading the next few weeks “because the spotlight has moved from this mischief to the content of the cartoon. I’m expecting hateful criticism”.
Here it comes, Duckman—from the Sydney Morning Herald’s Richard Glover:
Mr Michael Leunig, the Melbourne cartoonist, is angry that his work has been entered into an international competition for anti-Semitic cartooning. Mr Leunig asserts, and the Herald accepts, that he would never have entered such a competition himself, as there was far too high a chance of him winning.
UPDATE II. Motoon mortality is on the rise:
Three people have died and franchises of a Norwegian phone firm, a US fast food restaurant and banks have been set ablaze in Pakistan, the third day of violence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
More than 20,000 people, including traders, students and Islamist radicals, took part in protests in cities in North West Frontier Province and the eastern city of Lahore.
UPDATE III. A cartoon-related cash prize:
A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country.
UPDATE IV. Andrew Bolt:
A Danish newspaper mocks Islam for being violent, and an Islamist newspaper hits back by mocking Jews for being dead. That’s a warning.
From a non-Australian, let me commend the witty responses to Mr. Leunig’s mostly self-inflicted predicament.
I have a question - God, for Leunig, resides in a paddock? His paddock? What does this mean? Does it imply a compartamentalisation? A subordinate relationship akin to master-animal? And God is allowed out of the paddock to mark with approval the receipt of a message from Iranian racists? Leunig is a rich subject, any ideas on the paddock? Or does “paddock” have an Australian meaning of which I am unaware?
Posted by theoclitus on 2006 02 17 at 03:37 PM • permalinkSBS is willing to excite Muslim anger towards the Danish media by inaccurately reporting that an image of pig-snouted Mohammed was among the cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten. That error would have been avoided if SBS had researched and broadcast the original 12 cartoons; you know, because it’s “our responsibility as reporters to get this stuff on air.”
This can’t be emphasized enough. Even if you disagree with every other reason to publish them, how about doing so in the interest of not being part of a disinformation campaign?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 02 17 at 04:03 PM • permalinkIn the case my “paddock” reference at n.2 escapes some, here are two paragraphs from Mr. Leunig’s own story about this experience—
“Sleep came but then faltered about 3am, so I rose in the solemnity of this grim hour and wandered out into the brilliant moonlight to see if God was out there in the paddock somewhere. Yes, God is there.
I wandered back inside and in a reckless moment I opened the laptop lying on the kitchen table and went to the Iranian website. Lo and behold, the cartoon and the fake words were gone and God came in from the paddock and placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder.”
Posted by theoclitus on 2006 02 17 at 04:40 PM • permalinkwhere does a paki cleric get $1million??
Donations from American mosques, apparently.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 02 17 at 05:39 PM • permalinkYou beat me to it Hamish - big mobs of roos loose in Loony’s top paddock.
That probably doesn’t help you much theoclitus but the paddock Loony refers to I think has its “usual” meaning.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 02 17 at 05:53 PM • permalinkFrom now on, the month of February shall be known as “Piss on the Prophet Month”!
To celebrate, non-muslims will draw motoons, and muslims will riot and burn the embassy/flag of their choice. Prizes will be awarded to the most egregious toon, and the most creative embassy/flag burning.
Finally finding it’s niche, the UN will judge all entries, and determine the winners.
If the media is going to deliberately attempt to steer Muslim sentiment against the coalition armed forces, then I believe that we bloggers ought to retaliate.
Surely, between us, we have the resources to go back into the Google archives and find as many instances of MSM anti-Muslim “insensitivity” as possible, and mass-republish them.
If we do really well, the SBS and ABC buildings in Australia will be remodelled in the fashion of the Scandinavian embassies in the Middle East.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 02 17 at 07:34 PM • permalinkThis has been a fantastic move by Denmark. Print a few cartoons of the Proph. Mo. then the Islamic cage is rattled (it’s so easy), then you have to close your embassies down in these junkyards of countries. Voila! great savings for the Danish taxpayer, and you would not want to be taking any migrants from them either.
#6 a very good question - likewise where do afghani refugees get money to pay people smugglers to get them to the US or Australia, given the average wage for an honest person in afghanistan. if you have $15,000 to pay a people smuggler, you haven’t made it from goats, carpets, dried apricots, or your salary for being a teacher or a doctor. but there are other commodities such as guns & drugs that can deliver a handsome dividend
Oh Thank you for this Tim! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Mike Carey is an insipid, little twit. A corrupt, gutless, hypocrite and a liar!
People like him need to be exposed! He won’t even allow for dissent on his program’s website.
Here’s a laugh…Dateline’s promo this week is: Dateline speaks, the world listens!
Meanwhile, more Mo Toon mayhem in Lahore with 70,000 rioting and another 40,000 the day after that in Peshawar with at least 300 arrested, neither of which were mentioned on ABC television; and now another 9 dead in Libya! Sadly, nothing to do with the “new’ Abu Ghraib pics SBS, you disgusting, opportunistic cowards!
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA weekly newspaper The Rhinoceros Times printed the bad old cartoons since our daily wouldn’t. Local Muslims demand apology. Editor John Hammer laughs his fool head off and thumbs his nose at the whole lot of them. Bloggers having a ball with this one. Of course they were already featured on many blogs.
Posted by BrendaFayBowers on 2006 02 17 at 09:32 PM • permalinkMaybe if we just wait long enough all the jihadis will kill or injure each other and we’ll be done with the whole war.
We just need to fence in the general Middle East area, set up a few general rules of engagement, get a hot female co-host, and voila, here comes America’s new pastime: JihadiBots.
Sell the TV rights of the spectacle to Fox Sports, too, just to make a few lefty heads explode at the same time.
I wonder if this rioting in Pakistan is primarily aimed at Musharraf, incited by the jihadis who want him overthrown or assassinated so as to bring Pakistan into the jihad, with its nukes. Certainy the riots in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon were organized by interested parties, and it could be the same in Pakistan.
But there is a good deal of generalized Muslim hysteria over this matter, too, as the demos in Europe illustrate. The Muslim penchant for reacting to trivia with hysteria rising to murder is getting old. When we get fed up with this nonsense they will not like our responses to their next bout of hysterical calls for murder.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 02 17 at 10:53 PM • permalinkWell zzzbzzz Mark Carey can join zzbzz"s John Martinkus as “keys to the city” holders in Iraq.
They have indemnified themselves against dangers by becoming best friends with “insurgents”.
It only took 24 hours and a peek at zzzbzz’s web site featuring Martinkus’s pro Palestinian,pro “insurgency” agenda footages and audio to get him apologetically released by his kidnappers -Unlike others.Tim,
My mother and parents in law are Internet-challenged. I don’t have a colour printer. They’ve asked me about the cartoons, how obscene they are, what horrible things they must show, and I can’t refer them to a single national publication in this country to enlighten them.
When is the Bulletin going to publish the cartoons? As a service to those Australians, and alas, they’re the majority, who don’t read your blog regularly?
Initially, you could have believed that someone else would be bound to have picked up the gauntlet. Or that the story was too stale for the cartoons to be relevant. But no-one else has published them nationally, and the riots are getting worse not better.
Time to publish, to inform.
vinny 6
they live in caves with their pet goats and stuff,
Those aren’t real goats! They’re pigs, yes PIGS do you hear!? Disguised pigs. No REAL goat would shack up with those ... those pig farmers!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 18 at 12:26 PM • permalink
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That’s gonna leave a mark. <:-D