Over on Journalistsa Dirk picks up on a story from the Wall Street Journal which reports that Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the artist pretty much at the centre of both the first and most recent rounds of insanity concerning the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, is considering putting his cartoon of the Prophet with a bomb-like turban up for auction. As the article notes though, how do you fix a monetary value on such an object when it is more than likely that most auction houses wouldn’t be too happy about selling it and which would probably earn the buyer a similar murderous ire as the actual artist?
Meanwhile Middle East Online (via Neorama) is reporting that the Vatican has condemned the republication of the cartoons. I’m sure the fact that the current Pontiff inadvertently gave huge offence to Muslims the other year played no part in their rush to condemn the cartoons… I now wonder how long it will be before some enterprising artist does a new cartoon which offends all monotheistic faiths in one go…
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