Recent Responses to the Controversy
~~ Late Breaking cartoons about the cartoons ~~
 

British newspaper The Guardian caricatures the
Prophet Mohammed as an angry camel on 03.Feb.06

This mainstream British depiction of Mohammed as an animal has been missed...surprisingly! 

In this cartoon, the pigs (who represent Denmark) watch in fear at Mohammed in an angry rage. The camel caricature clearly depicts Mohammed, because the pigs refer to him as "Mo", and they say he has "the hump."
(in British English "the hump" means you are angry or upset about something).

The cartoon was drawn by Guardian artist Steve Bell.

The French satirical newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo' won a court decision to publish Mohammed cartoons on 07 February 2006

The non-Muslim French republic very much loved the decision by Charlie Hebdo to publish, even in the face of stiff Islamic pressure. The publication was flying off the shelves in France, and a second print run is planned.

Now, the French Council of the Muslim Faith is considering legal action against Charlie Hebdo and other French media who have published Mohammed cartoons, including France Soir. Although five papers in France have published the cartoons thusfar (Liberation, Le Figaro, Le Parisien, France Soir, and Charlie-Hebdo), the law suit is likely to concentrate on France Soir and Charlie Hebdo.

The Charlie Hebdo publication featured reprints of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, plus some new ones specifically created for this print. Here are some images of the publication:

According to the European Jewish Press, Charlie Hebdo was also planning on publishing Holocaust cartoons that were issued by the Iranian press. “We’ll go through with this project only if we manage to do it properly with the necessary explanations around the drawings.” said Philippe Val in a press conference on Wednesday.

Criticized by French president Jacques Chirac for being “provocative” when publishing the drawings of prophet Muhammad, the magazine stressed its goal in the new issue is to fight Holocaust denial and show the difference between the Danish cartoons portraying prophet Muhammad and the Iranian revisionist caricatures.

 

Hot off the easel from Cox & Forkum
 

Islamists scream that the cartoons are a misrepresentation of Islam. Hmmmmmm.
 

Filibuster cartoons features a new comic that really hits the nail on the head.
(Hat tip: Ole and Benjamin.)

This stencilled graffiti version of one of the cartoons on a wall was photographed by a reader in Hamburg, Germany on February 16, 2006. The words under the image say, "Hallo Mittelalter '06" -- "Hello Middle Ages '06".
(Hat tip: Tim.)
 

On February 1, France Soir newspaper published this cartoon on its cover, caricaturing Mohammed equally with other religious figures. The artist Delize drew another similar cartoon as well.
(Hat tip: Gathers and Etienne.)



On February 3, Le Monde newspaper published this cartoon by artist Plantu on its front page -- a drawing of Mohammed composed of sentences that say "Je ne dois pas dessiner Mahomet," or "I should not draw Mohammed."
(Hat tip: John, Erik, and phono.)

Mohammed offers some Koranic wisdom about meddlesome artists in the "Mohammed the Prophet Answers Your Emails" cartoon strip.
 

And this is a more traditional portrait.


Several postmodern satirists have highlighted the point that -- since no one really knows what Mohammed looked like -- any image could be said to depict him. To that end, they have captioned photos of their thumbs or rudimentary stick figures as "Mohammed." This image -- of a generic figure from the Danish toy company Lego, identified as being Mohammed -- is a good example of the genre.
(Hat tip: darmin.)


MSNBC political cartoonist Daryl Cagle emphasized the point with this response to the story, which includes a stick-figure Mohammed.

When a Russian newspaper published this cartoon,
it was shut down by authorities and its editor faced criminal charges.
(Hat tip: Martin.)

This black-light painting of a kitschy evil Elvis-Mohammed was created by the team at Velvet Prophet.
(To get a version that doesn't have the "Copy" watermark on it, you'd have to buy one of the Velvet Prophet paintings or t-shirts.)
(Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)


Many pundits, weary of repeating his name so often, have given Mohammed the nickname "Mo" --
which inspired this portrait of Mo as Moe of the Three Stooges.




"Mohammed -- Seconds before his destruction," is the title of this anonymous allegorical montage. A full-size version can be viewed here.


This unusual complimentary portrait compares Mohammed with Miss Liberty as a political liberator against tyrants.
(Hat tip: Martin.)


The board of Finnish culture magazine Kaltio fired its editor for publishing a five-panel comic about Mohammed; the first panel is shown here, and the other four are visible in the linked article. (High-resolution versions can be downloaded here.) Editor Jussi Vilkkuna was told to leave after he refused to remove the cartoons from the publication's website as requested by the magazine's board of directors. He served as editor for almost seven years.
(Hat tip: Paul B., nord, Tuomas H., and Martin.)


Links to additional recent images:

The Six Faces of Mohammed is Macker's Warholesque parody of the most notorious Danish cartoon.


 

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