The cognitive dissonance is total: we are constantly told that jihad terror has nothing to do with Islam and that Sharia oppression arises from cultural factors, not Islamic doctrine, but when Franziska Becker or anyone else dares to mock these supposedly non-Islamic phenomena, suddenly she is “anti-Islam.”
In any case, “other caricatures that she’s created have been equally critical of Christian preachers and Buddhists.”
That doesn’t matter. Criticizing Christianity or any other religion except Islam is “courageous” and will get you lionized by the Western intelligentsia. Criticizing Islam, however, will get you defamed, vilified, ostracized, shunned, and — increasingly — physically attacked. Apparently the multiculturalist omelet cannot be made without breaking a few eggs.
“Fair comment or racism? Award-winning German artist under fire over ‘Islamophobic’ cartoons,” RT, June 30, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
A German feminist artist who has been honored by a journalist group for her caricatures, is now facing a fiery backlash over a series of “racist” and “Islamophobic” cartoons – many of them relentlessly poking fun at Sharia law.
Franziska Becker’s works have come under the spotlight after the Female Journalists Association (Journalistinnenbund) awarded her a prize for her “keen-witted and sharp-tongued” depiction of men and women. The group hailed Becker as “one of the most prominent, feminism-oriented successful personalities” – but the praise hit a nerve with some Germans.
Criticism began amassing on social media shortly after news of the award broke. Sibel Schick, a contributor to women’s Missy Magazine and TAZ outlet – and, ironically, a self-described pro-choice feminist – was one of the first to post some of Becker’s cartoons which she dubbed “anti-Islam and racist.”
One caricature depicts a kindergarten where children – girls all wearing headscarves – are seen playing with toy “suicide” trucks or hijacked planes. Others are building a mosque and erecting a minaret.
Another one portrays a supposedly Muslim bank employee who tells her non-Muslim client that withdrawing cash is only possible with “a written permission from a husband, a father, a brother or a son.”
There was also a Becker cartoon in which a Muslim policewoman deals with a shoplifter using an axe – a blunt reference to a Sharia provision which prescribes that theft be punished by severing the thief’s hand.
Naturally, there was no shortage of criticism on social media, with users venting anger at both the artist and the journalists’ association.
The journalists’ group, meanwhile, has backtracked on promoting Becker’s award and said that “we take the criticism seriously and are currently discussing it intensively, but at first privately.”
However, those defending Becker pointed out that she isn’t overly obsessed with Islam. Other caricatures that she’s created have been equally critical of Christian preachers and Buddhists, it turns out.
Becker has always been a “super-left, super-feminist cartoonist,” one user wrote, wondering why “this woman is now supposed to be “racist” because she is critical of Islam (like any religion)?”…
Beverly says
I would like to know how professing to be a Muslim, automatically changes your race. I always thought Islamists come in many races and that Islam is an ideology.
Richard Bramwell says
During my own post-graduate work in Biology a Saudi Ph.D. candidate insisted that Muslims were not products of Darwinian Evolution. D.E. was for plants, animals, & primates like Jews & Christians.
“So”, I asked, “if Muslims are not like other living things, what happens if *I* convert? Am I not still a Primate?” He said, “No! When you convert, Allah converts you.”
I’d say that makes Muslims a different race. Of course, they are not, but that is the degree to which many believe in their own superiority!
mortimer says
Richard Bramwell illustrates the profound COGNITIVE DISSONANCE and intellectual dishonesty of Islam.
To wit, if reality and verifiable scientific facts contradict Islam, then Muslims discount whatever empirical facts clearly demonstrate.
Muslims seem to have a switch installed in their brains that turns off rational thought.
Muslims do not actually believe that the sun sets in a muddy spring (K.18.86) even though Mohammed confirmed it in an hadith!
How can Muslims live in such a constant disconnect from reality?
In this case, if an Arab leaves Islam, does he become non-Arab? No, his DNA says he is still an Arab.
gravenimage says
Insanity, Richard.
Halal Bacon says
shitslam is death cult
CRUSADER says
Hilarious!
Hala Bacon — you should come up with your own cartoon strips.
somehistory says
Comedy is one of the best, most effective, ways of telling the Truth. And the Truth hurts those who like the lie, lie to cover evil, don’t want others to know the Truth.
She should keep it going.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
somehistory says
If she poked fun at Christians, she wouldn’t be seen as doing anything wrong.
Jayell says
Hardly racist but definitely ant-islam. What’s wrong with that?
Jedothek says
We have an advantage in this fight. Our opponents (those who effectively defend jihad) are stupid. This is shown by the fact that they cannot distinguish criticism of Islam from racism. The inability to make elementary distinctions indicates low intelligence. How can we use this advantage?
Darlene Baker says
These weren’t even criticisms, just observations. I don’t see a way to turn this back on them … perfectly aware that their ways are unsavoury, they accuse others of the same behaviour. They are uniformly racist, so they call us racist. They are not known for their intellectual contributions, so they call us stupid. Etcetera.
TheBuffster says
Jedothek: “This is shown by the fact that they cannot distinguish criticism of Islam from racism.”
This is assuming that they’re sincere when they claim to think criticism of Islam is racism. Personally, I think their claim is just a ploy to smear their opponents and make the weaker ones back off in fear of being called “racist”.
And that ploy seems to work on many non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Gary says
Agreed
FYI says
When will all this “insulting the prophet muhammed” end?
Infidel: You mean the “prophet” muhammed FAILED the poison test?hahah…what a Joke!
Abdool: “There are no jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam.There is no fun in islam” but actually it is kinda funny..haha and to add insult to injury,it was a Jewish woman who defeated him..ouch!
Infidel :Car won’t start.I’ll fix it.I’ll bet the “prophet” muhammed couldn’t fix it.
Abdool: How dare you insult the prophet by implying he wouldn’t know anything about auto mechanics.
Infidel: Isn’t Aeronautical Engineering amazing?I’ll bet..
Abdool: How dare you suggest muhammed{APFh,allah prays for him} wouldn’t know such things.Why he often flew on Buraq,his FANTASY WINGED FLYING HORSEY WITH A WOMAN’S HEAD AND A PEACOCK TAIL did he not?Obviously that involved a knowledge of aeronautical engineering.
Infidel: That was absolutely scrumptious Fatima!You must have spent all day slaving away in the kitchen.Why,I’ll bet the “prophet” muhammed himself could not bake a better cake?
Abdool GET OUT of my house:you have insulted the prophet by suggesting he could not bake a cake as well as a stupid woman with their deficient minds:and don’t speak to my “wife”.. wife #3:look at her with her filthy infidel lipstick..she say to me “But I like to look nice”:so I say “allah CURSES woman who remove facial hair in order to look pretty thereby changing what allah created”{Sahih Bukhari vol 6 bk 60 hadith 408}
No woman could ever bake a cake better than muhammed.The prophet will not be insulted.
Infidel this technical manual is in Arabic:I’ll bet muhammed couldn’t understand it.
Abdool How dare you suggest muhammed,who could “neither read nor write” k7:157,would have difficulty understanding modern arabic.You have insulted the prophet.
Infidel is it ok if I spell islam “islaaaaam”?
Abdool How dare you insult islam by spelling it incorrectly.
Infidel Anyone seen BURAQ?
Abdool How dare you make fun of muhammed’s magic horse ,thus exposing islam to ridicule.
Infidel Banker Your profit stinks Abdool
Abdool How dare you insult my prophet..oh wait..you meant my profit haha
Infidel Banker Yes,your prophet stinks
Abdool haha I’m not falling for that again:us muslim Arabs are much smarter than you infidels.
Someday we will rule the world,allah will win.
Infidel Banker.. is that the same pagan Arab god allah that gets the religion of Moses wrong and says the sun sets in a muddy pool?gee ..I can’t wait..
spectator says
“There are no jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam.There is no fun in islam”
Ever notice how many terrorist attack were aimed at people who were trying to have fun? For example, the Boston Marathon spectators, the Christmas party in San Bernardino, and the nightclub in Orlando.
Angemon says
If there were still doubts, the pecking order is established – islam > “feminism”…
Lydia Church says
So then is criticizing Christianity or conservatives “racist”? By the same logic.. yes.
Lately while reviewing a lot of news sources I see the same pattern about leftist violence, regardless of the issue. It truly is getting ‘hairy and scary’ out there folks. We are seeing more antifa terrorist thugs beating up innocent civilians in places like Portland. Yet they rationalize it all away with delusions of ‘oppression’ from conservatives and their own form of ‘revolution’ and ‘civil war.’ Yet ironically, it is the left who is truly in power and pushing their agenda now more and more, despite Trump being president. He may have done something, but who is winning the censorship war, and other things like that? Exactly. But it’s like trying to convince a tree stump. They feel completely justified to beat someone to a pulp… just for holding a differing opinion from theirs. And ironically… they call us the fascists! They are the fascists! Can it get any more ‘Orwellian’? One of Pam Geller’s news items from AFDI depicted just what I am saying here, go take a look, if you subscribe then it should be in your email.
Now I can see there is a time to debate using logic and reason, and a time when some won’t listen to reason and you can’t sit around the campfire waiting for the nazi’s to ‘realize their error’ and self correct because all of society will be in jeopardy. There are other examples of course. Robert may have mentioned some in some of his books… but anyway. Then there was the American Revolution. Or if you see a victim being raped, you jump in and don’t try to ‘reason’ with the rapist first. But that is totally different. You can always go back to ‘who was the aggressor who started doing the wrongs’? But according to the left, they will always have their false versions of reality. Now there were definitely many wrongs done throughout human history, against many different groups no doubt. But they want to dig that all up, bring in ‘tit for tat,’ and have an innocent victim alive today bear the brunt of something they are definitely innocent of. I see that all the time in different ways now. Their way is not the solution to solve anything!
Here we see the leftists idea of ‘democracy’ at work:
Scenario: A democratic election takes place.
case A: The majority voted and the left won the election.
The left: They all go home and drink a beer.
Case B: The majority voted and the right won the election.
The left: THIS MEANS WAR! And they get out their weapons and start a ‘civil war’ in the name of ‘revolution.’
This is followed up by justifications that the election was not legitimate, but ‘stolen.’
I’m not saying that never happens, there was talk of that back in 2004. Who knows.
But… if the left won and the conservatives followed the same course of action as in Case B above, then they could not complain either or they would be hypocrites.
They defy the very term ‘democracy’!
All while calling the other side the ‘fascists.’
But you can’t reason with irrational people. And they are definitely bent on violence and convinced that they are ‘right.’ It is heating up out there and it looks like it’s only going to get worse. I’m not proposing any particular ‘solution’ here, (like going in with all the ammo, etc.) as some may be, nor am I saying to roll over and play dead. I’m just stating the obvious as I’m sure many of us observe who are on the watch and get various news sources and see the same things as I do. And even the things that many of us may not want to see… that things are only going to escalate and it’s something we all need to be prepared for and keep in mind, whatever that means for you. If you have small kids, and can do so, I would think about moving away from the big cities, especially Portland, Seattle, Oakland, etc. There are other possible solutions of course…. just be aware.
Barb says
IF Islam cannot be criticized then it is a weak and wishy washy ideology!
Only when an ideology is based on lies and falsehoods does it get easily offended!
IF Islam were based on TRUTH then Muslim’s would not be so indignant about cartoons depicting Islamic principles.and people!
gravenimage says
Germany: Cartoonist pokes fun at jihad terror and Sharia oppression, is slammed as “anti-Islam and racist”
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What rot. Good for Franziska Becker for telling the truth!
Heidi says
What is normal in Germany anymore? Absolutely nothing. One cannot say anything about them, draw cartoons, or visit a swimming pool or a carnival or anything else. They are dominant and politicians, foremost the left spectrum, churches, and the press falls to their knees and kisses their feet. If those Islamists say jump, they ask “how high?”. https://www.thelocal.de/20190701/hundreds-clash-at-freibad-in-latest-german-swimming-row
UNCLE VLADDI says
A better question is: “How is fascism NOT “normal” in Germany?!”
UNCLE VLADDI says
“Cognitive dissonance” = HYPOCRISY.
It’s what we get for hiring (“electing”) professional hypocrites.
Peter A says
“Germany: Cartoonist pokes fun at jihad terror and Sharia oppression, is slammed as “anti-Islam and racist””
1) So what if she is anti-Islam?!! It is not yet a crime in Germany to be anti-Islam, there is no legal requirement for anyone to embrace Islam.
2) How many more times does it need to be said – ISLAM IS NOT A RACE.
Thomas Sowell (US economist and author);
“The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.'”
ninetyninepct says
The truth about Islam seems to now be against some law. Coming soon to Canada.
CRUSADER says
ACT for CANADA
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