{"id":8860,"date":"2010-10-03T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/03\/the-following-cartoon-has-been\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T10:10:32","slug":"the-following-cartoon-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/the-following-cartoon-has-been\/","title":{"rendered":"The following cartoon has been banned by over 20 newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owing to Fear of Fatwa &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-b7e90ebe54e12aab240be73d5736dcde-Non Sequitur.png\" alt=\"i-b7e90ebe54e12aab240be73d5736dcde-Non Sequitur.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Daily Cartoonist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Universal Uclick has confirmed that several papers (upwards of 20) have asked for a replacement for this Sunday&#8217;s Non Sequitur because it mentions the word &#8220;Muhammad.&#8221; The cartoon by Wiley Miller  depicts a lazy, sunny park scene with the caption, &#8220;Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher&#8230; &#8216;Where&#8217;s Muhammad?'&#8221; Characters in the park are buying ice cream, fishing, roller skating, etc. No character is depicted as even Middle Eastern&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/papers-pulling-non-sequitur-because-of-muhammad-mention\/\">more<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so you know:  There is no sect of Islam that prohibits the use of the name Muhammad in text.  Pulling this cartoon is not only an act of gratuitous <a href=\"http:\/\/gregladen.com\/wordpress\/?p=243\">fear<\/a>, but it is also an admission of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/happy_al_qaeda_day.php\">defeat<\/a> and a demonstration of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/americans_knowledge_about_crea.php\">stupidity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t want to offend anyone, so no more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?client=ubuntu&#038;channel=fs&#038;q=Muhammad&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;source=og&#038;sa=N&#038;hl=en&#038;tab=wi&#038;biw=1200&#038;bih=761\">this<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owing to Fear of Fatwa &#8230; From the Daily Cartoonist: Universal Uclick has confirmed that several papers (upwards of 20) have asked for a replacement for this Sunday&#8217;s Non Sequitur because it mentions the word &#8220;Muhammad.&#8221; The cartoon by Wiley Miller depicts a lazy, sunny park scene with the caption, &#8220;Picture book title voted least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/the-following-cartoon-has-been\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The following cartoon has been banned by over 20 newspapers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2iU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}