Kommentoi vaihteeksi vaikka ihmisoikeutta nimeltä sananvapaus. Mitä sanottavaa sinulla on epädemokraattisten muslimimaiden vankiloissa viruville ja mahdollisesti kidutetuille pilapiirtäjille ja journalisteille, kun tunnut muslimien asiat noin hyvin tietävän?
Otetaanpa tähän muutama lainaus International Cartoon Centerin sivuilta. Nämä ja paljon muita tapauksia sarjakuva- ja pilapiirtäjien kohtaamista sensuroinneista, pidätyksistä ja murhista kokoilen Sarjainfoon kaavailemaani artikkeliin. Tässä ainoastaan islamistifundamentalistien tekosia (artikkeliin tulee muitakin tapauksia, ympäri maailman):
Turkish cartoonist burned alive (1993)
In the Turkish city of Sivas, Moslem fundamentalists burned dozens of people, many of them artists. One of those burned to death was renowned cartoonist, 34 year-old Asaf Koçak. On July 2, 1993, a festival of the arts and culture was organized in Sivas in memory of poet Pir Sultan Abdal, who was hanged 400 years ago. The annual event drew an unusually large number of famous artists to the city. Thousands of Moslem fundamentalists, who want an Islamic state in Turkey, became angry at the progressive artists participating in the events. They blocked the hotel, broke the statues of Pir Sultan Abdal and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Modern Turkey, then set the hotel afire. Koçak, a humanist fighting with his cartoons against illiteracy, exploitation, fundamentalism, torture and injustice, was one of 36 people who died in the inferno.
Museum ransacked, arts destroyed (1989)
The Association of Protecting Contemporary Life organized an exhibition. The subject was "Hats and scarfs." Simultaneously four other exhibitions took place in the same location; one of them for the works of Sema Ündeger, a free-lance female artist and cartoonist. The date of the opening (November 10, 1989) coincided with the 50th anniversary of the death of Atatürk, the legendary Turkish statesman many consider as the founder of modern Turkey. Religious fundamentalists who didn't like the themes and spirit of the show stormed the museum, broke everything in the rooms, including the telephones, and destroyed all of Ündeger's paintings.
Algeria:
Comic artist forced to go underground (1995-96)
Sid Ali Malouah, considered the foremost cartoonist and comics artist in Algeria, has incurred the wrath of the Moslem fundamentalists. Due to several attempts on his life, he was forced to go underground.
Iran:
The Iranian Supreme Court revoked an earlier one year sentence of cartoonist Manouchehr Karimzadeh by the Islamic Revolutionary Courts, and upped it to ten years in prison on October 15, 1993. Karimzadeh's cartoon, showing a soccer player, appeared in Farad magazine in 1992. It is not clear from the cartoon whether the man is running with one leg bent and his hand blurred in motion, or missing one or both limbs. The drawing accompanied an article about the poor state of Iranian soccer. The player, who is wearing a turban in the drawing, offended religious authorities who deemed the character resembled the late Islamic Imam Ayatollah Khomeini. Farad was immediately banned and all copies of the magazine removed from newstands nationwide, while Naser Arabha, Farad's editor-in-chief, was sentenced to six months in prison. Karimzadeh received fifty lashes, one year in prison, and a 500,000 rials fine. Especially disturbing about this case is, that Karimzadeh rights were completely ignored, as, in violation of the Press Law, he was tried by a revolutionary court, and after serving his one year prison sentence, the Supreme Court ruled that the cartoonist had to be "retried." It was then, that the arbitrarily harsh ten-year sentence was handed out.
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