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louis-t

(23,297 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:05 PM Sep 2012

Egypt newspaper fights cartoons with cartoons

Source: Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Amid outrage sparked by perceived insults to Islam, one Egyptian newspaper has decided to fight cartoons with cartoons.

Al Watan daily says it is responding to the crude caricatures published last week by a satirical Parisian weekly in kind: a series of sketches critiquing relations between the Arab world and the West.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-newspaper-fights-cartoons-cartoons-184149951.html



Best. response. ever. Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves.
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Egypt newspaper fights cartoons with cartoons (Original Post) louis-t Sep 2012 OP
That is the spirit! ZombieHorde Sep 2012 #1
Well I suppose dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #2
"Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves." Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #3
Cartoons versus cartoons! Much more civilized. Pterodactyl Sep 2012 #4
A free exchange of ridicule and scorn? It'll never work! Bucky Sep 2012 #5
That's how freedom of expression works! WTG, Egypt meow2u3 Sep 2012 #6

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
2. Well I suppose
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 06:20 PM
Sep 2012

if they do any in English and use the odd word which you'd find REALLY offensive you will of course just swallow it.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
3. "Next they need to show Americans looking at the cartoons and laughing at themselves."
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:14 PM
Sep 2012

Like the old one of Jesus walking into a hotel and tossing three big nails on the counter and asking if they can put him up for the night.

Bucky

(54,068 posts)
5. A free exchange of ridicule and scorn? It'll never work!
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:03 AM
Sep 2012

In American we don't call that free press; we call it campaigning.

meow2u3

(24,773 posts)
6. That's how freedom of expression works! WTG, Egypt
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 09:25 AM
Sep 2012

Fight words and pictures with more words and pictures.

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