This week is one of the holiest seasons of the Christian calendar as Christians throughout the world hold various services and celebrations related to Holy Week. Yesterday was Maundy Thursday, today is Good Friday, tomorrow is Holy Saturday, and Sunday is Easter Sunday.
All sensitivies toward Christianity aside, however, Newsweek chose this week to publish a cover depicting a cross with the following words spelled out with capital letters in the shape of the cross, in red lettering: "THE DELINCE AND FALL OF CHRISTIAN AMERICA." I was unable to capture the image, but you can see it here, Newsweek's accompanying article here.
The First Amendment right to freedom of the press certainly allows for Newsweek to publish such a cover and such an article and display them prominently at newsstands and at grocery check-out aisles, even during this Holy Week. But can you imagine the outcry were any mainstream-news magazine to publish a cover making any negative statement about Islam? Can you imagine what would happen if the Danish cartoons were splashed all over the cover of a news magazine at any time of the year, much less during Ramadan or Eid ul-Fitr?
More importantly, would any mainstream-news magazine dare to publish a negative cover about Islam?
3 comments:
That makes even me want to scream. Makes a nice set with their "We Are All Socialists Now" cover. What do we get next, "We Are All Muslims Now"?
To capture the image, right click on the image, click print and save as a pdf. Then crop image in a photo program.
You're right.
There is no way they would DARE to publish anything ABOUT the 'uncreated' unless it was to show obsequious obeisance. OR, of course, to say one of our men or women tossed it in the toilet without substantiating the facts
HOWARD BEALE MOMENT 2, today
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