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Sunday, February 05, 2006
Globe Cartoonist on Controversy
:: Posted by max @ 2/05/2006 04:55:00 AM News Link Source: Globe and Mail
Bryan Gable, an editorial cartoonist for The Globe, weighs in on the current controversy over cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammed in an online article.
"As a cartoonist, I understand and support the editor of the Jyllands-Posten and his action in promoting the fundamental importance of free speech. Democracy has always been a messy business and mistakes in judgment are a constant risk. If there was any error in judgment, perhaps it lies in the fact that the artists were asked to comment on the validity of a specific religion's taboos. Under the rules of a free press, it's fair game - but to what end?
The central fact of human nature is that people will take absolutely any tenet under the sun and, if they so desire, twist it to serve their ends. It's what keeps us in the news business and what inspired the Roman writer Juvenal to observe almost 2,000 years ago: 'It is difficult not to write satire.'"
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