Friday, February 17, 2006
World Cup '06
NOTE; The below was written before re-reading the link.
This is about a cartoon that, after the Danish episode, seems out of place and extremely distasteful of the newspaper that published it not because they should "be censored for inciting Muslim anger" but because they represented the Iranian Futbol team in such a manner that is just shameful. Iranian futbol players are not suiidal bombers, and they will not be used as potential suicide bombers, and never will.. Futbol is a sport that is respected in Iran, and although the German press that published this may see the Irony of the cartoon, MOST people in Iran will not find it amusing at all, and will be sincerely hurt by that image. It was a cruel joke, however ironic and intellectually entertaining the cartoonist/publishers believed it to be.
Note 2;
After talking with a partner in crime of mine, I re-read the paper and noticed that I missed ONE sentence, and because of that one sentence I lost the message that this article was conveying about the cartoon and about the reactions of some Iranians to it. I'm surprised that it happened to me, but it's really eye opening to see what weaknesses normal people like me have when we don't re-read and re-interpret something.
The sentence was
This is about a cartoon that, after the Danish episode, seems out of place and extremely distasteful of the newspaper that published it not because they should "be censored for inciting Muslim anger" but because they represented the Iranian Futbol team in such a manner that is just shameful. Iranian futbol players are not suiidal bombers, and they will not be used as potential suicide bombers, and never will.. Futbol is a sport that is respected in Iran, and although the German press that published this may see the Irony of the cartoon, MOST people in Iran will not find it amusing at all, and will be sincerely hurt by that image. It was a cruel joke, however ironic and intellectually entertaining the cartoonist/publishers believed it to be.
Note 2;
After talking with a partner in crime of mine, I re-read the paper and noticed that I missed ONE sentence, and because of that one sentence I lost the message that this article was conveying about the cartoon and about the reactions of some Iranians to it. I'm surprised that it happened to me, but it's really eye opening to see what weaknesses normal people like me have when we don't re-read and re-interpret something.
The sentence was
"It was not, they said, intended as a satire on Iran or even as a comment on suicide bombing."
