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http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N16450325

Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been
reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by leading U.S.
cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who offers what he calls a "fatwa bomb
meter" to rate their offensiveness.

Harper's Magazine published the article by Spiegelman in its June
edition available on newsstands from Tuesday, joining only a handful
of U.S. outlets which have printed the cartoons which provoked furious
protests that killed 50 people.

In an article headlined "Drawing Blood: Outrageous cartoons and the
art of outrage," Spiegelman, an elder statesman of political satire
famous for his New Yorker cartoons, said the cartoons needed to be
seen to be understood.

Drawing historical parallels with cartoonists jailed in the past, he
said, "I do believe in the right to insult."


--
Erik

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Let a man overcome anger by love, evil by good,
the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.
-- Buddha