The question was raised yesterday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR.
Hart and his syndicate say no — that a simple, straightforward joke is being misconstrued.
The cartoon, which appeared Nov. 10 in more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide shows a caveman entering an outhouse at night, and then saying, from inside, “Is it just me, or does it stink in here?”
The first public questioning of this cartoon arose in a washingtonpost.com chat Tuesday, when a reader noted that the cartoon seemed to make no sense, except metaphorically. The reader noted that the cartoon contained six crescent moons — three in the sky, and three on the outhouse door — and wondered if this might have been a veiled slur on the world’s 1 billion practicing Muslims.
The CAIR e-mail mentioned the moons, and also noted that Hart had drawn a prominent sound effect — “SLAM” — between two frames to accompany the closing of the outhouse door. The SLAM was stacked vertically, in the shape of an I, and could be seen to signify “Islam.” The cartoon appeared on the 15th day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
I think a lot of what CAIR does is important – - and support their right to speak out as they did against Dr. Laura for her on-air temper tantrum against Muslims and mosques.
However, this seems somewhat far-fetched and more like a scavenger hunt of what can be found to be politically incorrect in a comic strip.
If we look hard enough at any one thing we can always find fault – - there are much bigger issues out there that need attention – - I don’t think B.C. is one of them.
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