Six Months for a Jest

The Danes are not alone in their ability to infuriate pious Muslims with drawings. A Bangladeshi cartoonist has just been sentenced to six months in prison for a work deemed blasphemous. The original kerfuffle occurred two years ago, when Arifur Rahman's cartoon sparked riots in Dhaka. The offending artwork can be glimpsed here. The translation of the captions goes as so:

Boy, what is your name?

My name is Babu.

It is customary to add Mohammad before the name. What is your father's...

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Published on November 16, 2009 10:00
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