Raphael Wegmann wrote:
Rob wrote:
On 6/1/06, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
The burning embassies and other violant protests started after the cartoons have been *published*, not after some caricaturists have been drawing a picture of Mohammed at home. It is the publication and the many republications (incl. WP) which insulted resp. insults so many people, not some caricaturist drawing a picture at home.
You enjoy hairsplitting, apparently. Perhaps the cartoonist is drawing Mohammed for a second time.
Even if the cartoonist would draw Mohammed a third time, he wouldn't need be afraid as long as his drawings wouldn't have been published before.
Cartoonists generally do draw things with the expectation that they will be published.
In any case, given your involvement with the J-P Muhammed cartoons article, I'm sure you can recall what prompted Jyllands-Posten to solicit those cartoons in the first place.