Comment by S S Tragus on December 14, 2009 at 2:55pm
Substitute any religion in place of 'Muslim' there. In these times, when so much prejudice against Arabs exists, I wish cartoonists would make their point more generically. The point here could be made just as well with 'Jewish' or 'Christian' in the caption. In the particular context of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it would again be just as valid to have the whole cartoon depicting a zealous Jewish father with his son. Or nationality could be substituted, with 'American' put in place of the religious designation. I'm all for critiques, but when there is such an imbalance of power, and when so much of the world, especially the West, already sees the conflicts in the Middle East in a very biased and one-sided manner, we need to be careful that our critiques don't serve to support existing biases.

Comment

You need to be a member of Think Atheist to add comments!

Join Think Atheist

Gizmo Gadget - Purveyros of the finest gadgets this side of the Amazon

Forum

EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!

Started by Belle Rose in Welcome to Think Atheist. Last reply by archaeopteryx 16 minutes ago. 100 Replies

Videos

  • Add Videos
  • View All

Services we love

Backup your stuff: Dropbox and SugarSync.

Atheist Web Hosting. TA members get 20% off
RFEHosting.com
We are in love with our Amazon
Book Store!

 

Check out our new mobile/tablet version of Think Atheist! www.ThinkAtheist.com/m

© 2013   Created by Morgan Matthew.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service