Comments on: WaPo ombudsman: We should have published the Opus cartoons

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Weak: WaPo preemptively apologizes for monkey cartoon

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:29:54 +0000

[...] No one, not even CAIR, ended up getting worked up about it. In fact, their own ombudsman eventually scolded them for jumping to conclusions about reader reaction. When it comes to defending their contributors [...]

By: The Four Color Media Monitor

The Four Color Media Monitor — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:20:40 +0000

Opus gets censored out of fear of offendingMuslims…

Update 2: now isn’t this something. Deborah Howell of the Wash. Post’s Omsbudsman column (also via Hot Air) says that the WaPo should have run the cartoons. Now they tell us!…

By: aengus

aengus — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:09:24 +0000

The ombudsman confirms that not even CAIR had a problem with “Opus”

They’ve done so much to create a mental atmosphere of self-censorship that it hardly matters at this point whether or not they give their official seal of disapproval.

Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University, also wasn’t offended. He said there is a strong Muslim tradition of satire and self-deprecation.

No there isn’t.

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:29:23 +0000

The WAPO is giving in to the Opus Neocons who sought to defame muslims!? But wait, aren’t journalists the epitome of bravery by defying the GOP concentration camps and Bush’s Homeland Security stormtroopers every day? At least that’s what I read all the time in the newspape… oh, wait…

Well at least they are bravely consistent in refusing to support the mocking of any and all religions… oh, wait…

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:40:51 +0000

“‘Opus’ poked fun at the strip’s characters, not Muslims or Islam.

That much is right. But it seems the WaPo is afraid to mention Islam unless they’re kissing its a$$.

By: Something is wrong with this explanation « Bookworm Room

Something is wrong with this explanation « Bookworm Room — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:50:07 +0000

[...] Hot Air also caught Howell’s acknowledgment that the WaPo erred. Allahpundit is more generous than I, in that he doesn’t challenge the shaky reasoning [...]

By: major john

major john — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:33:59 +0000

JiangxiDad,

Exactly right – I saw plenty of “Nasruddin” stories in Afghanistan (ie. Mullah Nasruddin is observed drawing an enormous circle in the dust around his mosque. When asked why he is doing this by a passerby, he responds “I am protecting myself from lions.” The passerby remarks that there are no lions in all of Afghanistan. Nasruddin smiles and says “I knew it would work!”).

By: Rational Thought

Rational Thought — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:16:28 +0000

Too late. It doesn’t matter anymore…To hell with the WaPo and their ombudsman.

darwin on September 15, 2007 at 2:03 PM

I agree. You don’t get to be courageous after the fight is over. You and your paper were submissive cowards when you refused to run the cartoons, and now you’re submissive cowards and hypocrites. You’re the typical leftist who basically says to the Jihadists: “You’ve punched me 27 times now. If you punch me again, I’m really gonna get mad at you.” Bam! “Okay, if you do that again I’m gonna–” Bam! “Okay, I really mean it this time. I’m gonna–” Bam! “Hey you guys, really, can you pleeeeease stop.”
Honestly, how do these phony, semi-literate, pandering buffoons sleep at night?

By: JiangxiDad

JiangxiDad — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:01:36 +0000

BadgerHawk on September 15, 2007 at 2:54 PM

There's this. Very well known satire in Muslim world. There are hundreds of Hodja stories (of the dumb mullah on a donkey variety), and many Muslim nations claim Hodja as their own.

By: BadgerHawk

BadgerHawk — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:54:14 +0000

Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University, also wasn’t offended. He said there is a strong Muslim tradition of satire and self-deprecation.

Is that supposed to be satire. I don’t get it.

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:51:26 +0000

Note how Hooper’s answer hints that if he had perceived the strip as “poking fun” at Islam, he would have objected.

Exactly. And he sees hundreds that are worse on the Internet every day? That means he’s looking for them.

By: Thomas the Wraith

Thomas the Wraith — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:15:50 +0000

To quote Woody Allen, “The yellow stripe doesn’t run down their backs. It runs across.”

By: Dark-Star

Dark-Star — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:13:50 +0000

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. You’re too late, WaPo. You’ve shown your true colors already…yellow.

By: JiangxiDad

JiangxiDad — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:13:35 +0000

darwin on September 15, 2007 at 2:03 PM

The left shoots blanks. Either the Islamists get them, or we do. Scared sh**tless, IMO.

By: darwin

darwin — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:03:13 +0000

Too late. It doesn’t matter anymore. The left falls all over themselves trying to show how “sensitive” they are to muslims while doing everything in their power to help destroy who we are in the f___ing name of “tolerance”. To hell with the WaPo and their ombudsman.