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The Post calls the now-famous Muhammad cartoons "a calculated insult" [editorial, Feb. 8]. Then The Post should fire Tom Toles. Every cartoon he draws -- thank God -- is a calculated insult.
"The dispute isn't really about what the cartoons look like," says Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt [op-ed, Feb. 12]. "It's about the fact that he was depicted at all." Then condemn the Muhammad bas-relief at the Supreme Court and the Muhammad portraits on the Mall. In blindly accepting Muslim outrage, The Post forgets that the Koran is open to interpretation.
The most controversial cartoon depicts Muhammad with a bomb for a turban. "You're not going to see a cartoon lampooning the Virgin Mary . . . in The Post," says Deborah Howell [Ombudsman, Feb. 12]. Like The Post, she missed the joke. The cartoon doesn't lampoon Muhammad but the great threat of our times: terrorism committed in his name. (Those weren't Hare Krishnas flying jets into skyscrapers.)
Muslims who condemn the cartoons demand what no other religion receives or deserves: orthodoxy from nonbelievers. (If Muslims eat meat on Friday, are they blaspheming the pope, or just getting their protein?) Freedom of worship also means freedom from worship. Muslims can define blasphemy for adherents -- not for infidels. Not even infidel newspapers.
-- Gary Parker
Washington
