Islam has successfully exported its prohibitions to Western media - who refuse to publish a fictitious "Mohammed cartoon" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Islam has successfully exported its prohibitions to Western media - who refuse to publish a fictitious "Mohammed cartoon"

From the BBC:

Four employees of a satirical magazine in Turkey have been arrested for publishing a cartoon that appears to show the Prophet Muhammad - a sacred religious figure whose depiction is a deeply contentious issue in Islam.

Turkey's interior minister Ali Yerlikaya condemned LeMan magazine's drawing as "shameless", announcing that its editor-in-chief, graphic designer, institutional director and cartoonist had been detained.

LeMan denied its cartoon was a caricature of Muhammad, writing on X that "the work does not refer to the Prophet Muhammed in any way".

This was reported by CBS News, Reuters, AFP, CNN and others.

Some describe the cartoon, which does not appear to be of Mohammed but just an angel introducing himself with that name to a Jew who introduces himself as Moses

But none of them actually show the cartoon for readers to make their own decision as to how offensive it is.

Even after the publisher insists that the cartoons are being misrepresented, the media is so frightened of being attacked by crazed Muslims that they have abdicated their responsibility to inform the public, and instead they are adhering to Islamic religious standards.

Major news media refusing to publish a cartoon is a much bigger story than the Turkish reaction to the cartoon itself. The real story isn't a backwards country treating free speech as toxic, but the Western news media treating free speech the exact same way Turkey does.

The humor is in a Jew and Muslim with the names of their most important respective prophets being friendly while their people are attacking each other. If readers could see the cartoon, they could figure out for themselves that it does not appear to portray Mohammed at all and that Turkey's Erdogan is acting like a madman. But instead they see a "he says, she says" story with no means to figure out the truth.

Because Western media is now following Sharia law. And that should frighten the entire free world much more than riots in Turkey over a cartoon.

(Jewish and Israeli media tended to show the cartoon, although usually by posting a tweet, which gives them a little more space to say that they didn't directly publish it but only pointed to social media.)