Sheesh! As a Muslim myself I don't find this cartoon offensive. I don't follow the cartoon, so quite honestly it didn't make much sense to me. Who are these Washington Post staffers anyway? *sigh*
A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday's installment of Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.
The installment did not appear in the Post's print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The same will hold true for the upcoming Sept. 2 strip, which is a continuation of the plotline.
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Here's the supposedly controversial cartoon in question. And the Jerry Falwell cartoon mentioned in the article.
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