Aris Katsaris

You know, I don't think that there has ever been a time where the verses of my "politics" icon above have been more relevant (I really need to thank homasse again for creating it for me -- thanks a bunch, j-chan!)

For that matter I don't think that there has ever been a time, where *blasphemy* has been more of a moral obligation than it is right now. If I had artistic skills enough to draw a cartoon where Mohammed, Jesus, Moses are all, I dunno, having a drunken orgy or something, I'd be drawing it right now. I'd be inclusive in my blasphemy: After all Greek *Christian* fascists have several times attempted to ban books (or indeed even *cartoons*) that they considered insulting to Jesus - Μ^ν, the "Life of Jesus", so forth, so forth.

Anyway my only concern about it is that I've let enough time pass before commenting here over it that my first rage over the situation has passed, having mostly gotten expressed in a friend's journal instead of here. So now follows a much calmer post.

( Analysis, part I: The core of the issue )

In order not to delay posting even more, I'll be breaking this up in sections. Two more sections remain to this analysis that I have already thought over. In section II I'll offer a more calm and full rebuttal to the points that bellatrys raised in her own posts. In section III I'll comment on the various international reactions, and their various seeming paradoxes.