{"id":1398,"date":"2006-03-06T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/03\/jewish_cartoon_laff_riot\/"},"modified":"2006-03-06T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T17:14:50","slug":"jewish_cartoon_laff_riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/03\/jewish_cartoon_laff_riot.html","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH CARTOON (LAFF) RIOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim cartoon furor just won&#8217;t go away. &#8220;About 50,000 people, many chanting &#8216;Hang those who insulted the prophet,&#8217; rallied Sunday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi,&#8221; <a href=http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/news\/ap\/online\/regional\/europe\/D8FGF3EO0.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>AP reports<\/font><\/strong><\/a>. Another 20,000 in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum chanted anti-Danish slogans and shouted &#8220;Allah is Great.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve all heard about the Al Qaeda video that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/04\/zawahiri.tape\/index.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>denounced the Mohammed cartoons<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. The Pakistani press has stories like this one, <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.com.pk\/daily\/mar-2006\/3\/index11.php\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Cartoons rile U.S. college.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> And today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal front-pages the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/us?refresh=on\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>latest absurdity<\/strong><\/font><\/a> headlined, <strong>&#8220;Blame It on Voltaire: Muslims Ask French To Cancel 1741 Play.&#8221;<\/strong> (No link for the unwashed unsubscribed.)<br \/>\nTo all the rioters: Enough already! Does that sound too Jewish? Too New York? Too reasonable? How &#8217;bout a coupla Jewish cartoons that won&#8217;t cause any riots &#8216;cept, to quote a friend, mebbe a laff riot:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jewish laff riot 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/jewish%20cartoon%201.jpg\" width=400 border=0 \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jewish laff riot 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/jewish%20cartoon%203.jpg\" width=420 align=right border=0 \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim cartoon furor just won&#8217;t go away. &#8220;About 50,000 people, many chanting &#8216;Hang those who insulted the prophet,&#8217; rallied Sunday in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi,&#8221; AP reports. Another 20,000 in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum chanted anti-Danish slogans and shouted &#8220;Allah is Great.&#8221; We&#8217;ve all heard about the Al Qaeda video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-my","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}