"Western media" is free. The broadcasters and printers of the horrible depictions we're talking about are state controlled.

There is no equivalence between poking fun at muhammed (or jesus or moses) in a cartoon and making a movie which depicts jews killing christian children to use their blood for passover motzah or plucking the eyes out of palestinian babies. Indeed, pretending there is equivalence is a derivative of the same kind of political manipulation that is the ultimate goal of these telelvision show. They are all a means to divert the attention of poor and oppressed arabs and persians from the abuses they suffer at the hands of their own dictatorial leaders and direct the peoples anger at the nearest target of convenience. It's an old trick but it can still work.

Apropos of nothing in particular here is a link to a cartoon that cracks me up sometimes. It goes after jesus and muhammed simultaeneoulsy.

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