n/m I found it.

http://www.newspaperindex.com/blog/2005/12/10/un-to-investigate-jyllands-posten-racism/

But what is the big deal (besides the whole blaspheming thing)? Seems
like a pretty effective political cartoon to me. (getting a detailed
message across in a single image). I wouldn't have known it was
Mohammad if I wasn't told. But knowing who it is, the cartoon makes
good sense to me (that Mohammad and his ideas and his followers are a
bombshell in the modern world).

I might be missing something, but it does not mean to me that Mohammad
has a literal bomb under his turban, or that he is a suicide bomber,
or anything actually to do with Mohammad himself, but to me it is
using Mohammad as a symbol of Islam, and the bomb as a symbol of an
explosive situation. These are fairly standard political cartoon
mechanisms.

Also, when did "racism" come to mean anything a particular group finds
offensive, and not specifically something to do with differentiation
by race?

On 2/1/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you share the link?
>
> On 2/1/06, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well the original paper apologized and I don't think they should have.
> > But I think the other papers printing it just for spite
> > is...well...intentionally spiteful.
> >
> > But then again, I was happy to find the pictures presented on a web
> > site carrying the story so that I knew what all the fuss was about. So
> > go hypocritical me!
>

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