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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?
- Fatwa For Newsweek?
From Atlas Shrugs:When an amatuerish youtube video sets the Muslim world a flame, anything can. Does Newsweek really think they are immune? Somali-born Dutch AEI scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the cover story’s author. In the article, Hirsi Ali claims...
- Time: Does It Still Matter?
The latest cover of Time Magazine tells you all you need to know about the agenda of the left-wing media establishment that installed Barack Hussein Obama in power so that he could oversee the "fundamental transformation" of America: To ask a question...
- Fareed Zakaria, "moderate" Muslim, Nixed Mohammed Cartoons
In other words, Zakaria advised Yale University Press not to publish the Danish cartoons. From this post at Islam in Action, citing this source: ...Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, a world affairs columnist and CNN host who serves on...
- Four Valiant Journalists
Four reporters/editors of “The New York Press” resign after management refused to allow them to publish the cartoons in an article which takes on the mainstream press for its cowardliness. The article was called "Where's Muhammad?" I just heard...
- American Newspaper Publishes Danish Mohammed Cartoon
While all of us Infidels agree with Baron's post below that we are all now Danes, the truth is, America has not begun to stand with the Danes on the cartoon issue. Honestly, I am ashamed. And, I want to say sorry to our European brothers, but it means...
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This Week's Cover Of Newsweek
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?
- Fatwa For Newsweek?
From Atlas Shrugs:When an amatuerish youtube video sets the Muslim world a flame, anything can. Does Newsweek really think they are immune? Somali-born Dutch AEI scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the cover story’s author. In the article, Hirsi Ali claims...
- Time: Does It Still Matter?
The latest cover of Time Magazine tells you all you need to know about the agenda of the left-wing media establishment that installed Barack Hussein Obama in power so that he could oversee the "fundamental transformation" of America: To ask a question...
- Fareed Zakaria, "moderate" Muslim, Nixed Mohammed Cartoons
In other words, Zakaria advised Yale University Press not to publish the Danish cartoons. From this post at Islam in Action, citing this source: ...Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, a world affairs columnist and CNN host who serves on...
- Four Valiant Journalists
Four reporters/editors of “The New York Press” resign after management refused to allow them to publish the cartoons in an article which takes on the mainstream press for its cowardliness. The article was called "Where's Muhammad?" I just heard...
- American Newspaper Publishes Danish Mohammed Cartoon
While all of us Infidels agree with Baron's post below that we are all now Danes, the truth is, America has not begun to stand with the Danes on the cartoon issue. Honestly, I am ashamed. And, I want to say sorry to our European brothers, but it means...