Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 12, 2010
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Caption: Kevin finally achieves his goal to be the most feared man in the world... Sign: Caricatures of Muhammad while you wait!
A bit of history here… this cartoon first ran 4 years ago, satirizing the hoopla over cartoons by Islamic radicals at the time. When it ran in the Straight Times, which is the biggest paper in Malaysia, the Malaysian government shut down the paper for over week, demanding an apology from the paper for printing it. They did not apologize, as there was nothing to apologize for. It was really just an excuse by the government to exercise their muscle over the media there. The paper was allowed to reopen a week later.
So I chose to run it again, as the issue still hasn’t gone away, being revived recently. Let’s see what happens this time.
The day a satirist is afraid to satirize glaring idiocy, then it’s time to find a new profession.