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Write to a Muslim-hater (by Latuff)

by Latuff (latuff [at] uninet.com.br)
If anti-Semitism is fought worldwide, the same can't be said on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice.
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Dear brothers and sisters-in-arts,

Please, read this message:

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From: JoshNeverSleeps [at] aol.com
Message-ID: mailto:<3b.3d8a4b8e.2c9cb1ec [at] aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:24:28 EDT
Subject: you are such an ignorant muslim fuck
To: latuff [at] uninet.com.br

there is a reason your living in a 3rd world u rediculas ass wipe. get a fuckin clue. get some education and perhaps you may be privelaged enough to move to a real country like the usa. mother fucker
-usa
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If anti-Semitism is fought worldwide, the same can't be said on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice.
"You are an ignorant Muslim fuck" is just another example of biased crap sent to me by one of the many blind supporters of United States/Israel murderous policies. Email message had as an attachment one of my cartoons with a far-right-wing Jew about to shout on a megaphone with a plate above it: "In case of increase of world support to Palestine, break the glass and shout anti-Semitism".

If you agree with his statement, just write him with some congratulations. If you don't, send your opinions on anti-Muslim/Arab prejudice and blind nationalism: JoshNeverSleeps [at] aol.com

Thank you very much!

Latuff
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by gehrig
I notice your antisemitic caricature portrays Josh as Jewish. Your evidence that he is Jewish consists of exactly what? Your own prejudices? As one of the editors here never tires of repeating, usually in an off-topic way, the majority of Zionists aren't Jewish.

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by not a good guess
The overwhelming majority of Zionists, and all of the most powerful ones, are nominal Christians.
by gehrig
Exactly. Yet Latuff has apparently concluded that, because that letter was offensive -- and it certainly was -- the author must have been Jewish, and has caricatured him as a caricature Jew complete with yarmulke.

Does anybody else find that problematic?

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by reader
why is that Jews cannot be caricatured? why can everybody else, except Jews, be caricatured without recrimination? if he puts a yarmaluk on a guy's head in a drawing why is that suddenly a forbidden caricature unless the cartoon portrays the individual in a positive light?
by gehrig
Why is an ethnic caricature wrong, no matter of whom? If you need me to explain that to you, then oh _boy_ do you have some catching up to do.

But even that's a side issue compared to the main one -- which is, why did Latuff decide that the guy who wrote that letter was Jewish, although there's nothing in the letter to indicated it? Is there any reason other than because than apparently he _wishes_ it were, so he could draw a Jewish caricature?

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Just another gehrig's cry wolf...move along...
by gehrig
I don't "cry wolf." Sadly, on Indybay, I don't have to. Every time I've said, "wolf," I've brought back the wolf's pelt and laid it on the pile.

Like to prove me wrong? Simple. Find evidence in the letter Latuff posted that the guy who wrote him is a Jew, let alone an Orthodox Jew. Show that to all of us, and then you'll have demonstrated that Latuff _didn't_ jump to the conclusion, without evidence, that the writer was Jewish.

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