corbettw's Journal: Latest submission, let's see what happens

I just submitted this article, let's see if they run with it:

I'm sure most Slashdotters have heard about the Mohammed cartoon controversy already, but here's an update. Fox news is reporting that gunmen have started storming hotels and apartment buildins in the West Bank looking for potential European hostages. This is on top of the large and loud protests in half a dozen Muslim countries, with protestors chanting "Death to France" and "Death to Denmark". If a little cartoon can cause this much uproar, can the Dar al-Islam (Muslim nations) and Dar al-Harb (everyone else) ever live in peace? Should we have any respect at all for a religion with this much contempt for freedom of expression?"

Nope, it's rejected!

[corbettw]

A legitimate news item about whack jobs threatening to kill people because of a picture of a centuries dead child molester (how old was Aisha again?), and it gets rejected.

I should try again later, posting anonymously, and write it up as "peaceful protestors raise the level of debate regarding depictions of the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)" and see if that gets accepted.

Re:Nope, it's rejected!

[RailGunner]

A legitimate news item about whack jobs threatening to kill people because of a picture of a centuries dead child molester (how old was Aisha again?), and it gets rejected.

You're presenting an artice critical of the wrong religion. Go find an editorial of someone bashing Christians on Intelligent Design and it'll get accepted. All good liberals know it's only the "Jesus Freaks" that can be made fun of.

The answer to 'how old' is 9.

Had the editorials in question made fun of Jesus, Christians like myself

Re:Nope, it's rejected!

[corbettw]

No kidding, compare that uproar with the relatively modest complaints against the Washington Post running a cartoon showing Rumsfeld and a soldier missing both arms and both legs (I won't spoil the cartoon, it's actually kinda funny, if you can ignore the gallows humor).

Of course, Rumsfeld and his supporters are civilized human beings, not a bunch of barbarians out to murder and destroy anyone who so much as steps on their toes.

Re:Nope, it's rejected!

[corbettw]

It's been a few days, so whoever you are, hopefully you'll see this. (I only get notices of replies with a karma of 2+, so I usually don't see AC posts.)

"Whackjobs" may not be sensitive, but come on, what else do you call people who kill other people because of a cartoon? It's one thing to be culturally sensitive, it's another to give people a free pass at acting like, well, whackjobs just because they live in another country.

And I've been to the Mid East (Bahrain, UAE, lived in Turkey for most of a year).