Disgust

I'm disgusted. And yes, it's about those old cartoons depicting prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) that a Danish paper called Jyllends Posten published a few months ago. Fellow Saudi blogmate Religious Policeman has a good story of the event.

But unlike what you may believe, I'm not disgusted by the reaction of the Muslim people. They are wrong, of course, since they do not have the right to torch embassies and kidnap people if they decide to feel offended about some innocent cartoons.

Instead, I'm profoundly disgusted by the reaction of most of our rotten, corrupt, ass-kissing, money-sucking political and religious authorities. From British foreign minister Jack Straw's delirating attack against free media to the usual Vatican blatter about respect (for hell's sake, it took THEM fifty years to apologize about the holocaust - who are they to say how we should behave with their history of torture, inquisition and bigotry? Another wasted chance to shut the fuck up).

Luckily today comes my fellow Siena citizen Giannelli with another of his excellent cartoons. We definitely needed some wit here.



In the cartoon you can see Berlusconi in form of a divinity (he probably thinks of himself as a semi-god) asking prophet Mohammed: "you got offended by twelve cartoons? what should I say then?".

Absolutely brilliant, and Kudos to Corriere della Sera and many other Italian papers who had the balls to not only republish some of the famous cartoons, but also added some of their own. Special mention for Giuliano Ferrara's Il Foglio, who came out with a very explicit first page (see below).



There is still some light at the end of the tunnel.