11. One way to think about this is to compare the generic features of religious art with satirical cartooning.
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12. Religious art, cross-culturally I think, has certain properties: it's idealizing, elevating, earnest, etc.
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13. Satirical art has the opposite aim of religious art: not to elevate but to bring down: to profane both literally & metaphorically
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14. Satire, whatever it's ideological intent, is a powerful secularizing agent: it's message is that "nothing is sacred."
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15. The satirist often can't help himself/herself: impulse behind their art is to do that which they are told not to do.
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16. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw ... to hell with it, I have to draw the Prophet
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17. History of satire & cartooning has many figures who continue to do what they're told they can't do: Lenny Bruce syndrome
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18. Whether by design or accident, in choosing to target cartoonists, jihadis have picked foe that can't back down without losing identity
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19. To tell an pundit to tone it down is one thing. But to tell a cartoonists to be reasonable is to ask them to stop being cartoonists.
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20. So cartooning (profane & irrepressible) becomes the perfect fault-line for a cultural/religious war.
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21. The clarifying thing about attacks on both cartoonists & Jews is they occur on exactly the fault-line where no compromise is possible.
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22. You can't have a modern liberal state without tolerance of satire & without protection of minorities. There's nothing to negotiate.
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23. This is a good question: @Kirkdify how can we avoid this?
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