MIKE FLUGENNOCK, one of the best activist cartoonists in the country (we
call him DC's Daumier) has been attacked by the Israeli News Agency as
an example of "Islamic racist hate and incitement to violence" because
of his well-aimed shot at Sharon. Since Flugennock's work has appeared
from time to time in the Review and since we have always regarded him as
a pretty peaceful fellow, we thought we'd better investigate. We asked
him a series of hard question trying to uncover his Islamic racist
hatred. The results follow.
MIKE FLUGENNOCK - Born 1957 at Fort Belvoir Army Hospital, VA, to
middle-class Catholic military family. Attended mass fairly regularly
until around 1963, when Dad had a falling out with the church heirarchy
over birth control (he favored it). No Islamic fundamentalist influence
there.
In junior high school, joined about 95% of American boys at the time in
deciding to be astronauts when they grew up after viewing Neil
Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. No Islamic fundamentalist influence
there either, nor in the Sci-Fi and Astronomy Clubs at my old high
school.
After spending most of college watching the 700 Club in the dorm on
Sunday mornings for cheap laffs while getting stoned with roommate,
became disgusted with authoritarian values and naked buck-hustling of
Pat Robertson, became an atheist. All that Big Guy In The Sky crap just
got in the way of my relationship with the rest of the Universe.
Definite infidel tendencies, no specific Islamic fundamentalist
influence, though, but my wife and I both do still belong to the
Washington Ethical Society (the "un-church of our choice").
Nothing else I can think of right offhand except my extreme enjoyment of
a re-viewing of Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence Of Arabia" on Turner Classic
Movies last summer. This one had a few Muslims in it, as I recall, but
no actual religious teaching.
THE CARTOON
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GOD TO TONY BLAIR: SHUT UP!
TERRY JONES, GUARDIAN - A high-level leak has revealed that God is
"furious" at Tony Blair's attempts to implicate him in the bombing of
Iraq. Sources close to the archangel Gabriel report him as describing
the Almighty as "hopping mad ... with sanctimonious yet unscrupulous
politicians claiming He would condone their bestial activities when He
has no way of going public Himself, owing to the MMW agreement" (a
reference to the long-established Moving in Mysterious Ways concordat).
Mr Blair went public about God on Michael Parkinson's TV show. "If you
have faith about these things," he said, "then you realize that judgment
is made by other people. If you believe in God, it's made by God as
well." As is customary with Mr Blair's statements, it's rather hard to
tease out what he is actually saying; but the gist is clearly that if
God didn't actually tell him to bomb Iraq, then the Almighty would
certainly agree it was the right thing to do. . .
"If Tony Blair thinks his friendship with George W Bush is worth rubbing
out a couple of hundred thousand Iraqi men, women and children, then
that's something he can talk over with me later," said God. "But when he
starts publicly claiming that's the way I do the arithmetic too, it's
time I put my foot down!" It is well known that God has a very big foot.
A source says Gabriel has spent days trying to dissuade the Almighty
from loosing a plague of toads upon the Blair family. Gabriel reminded
God that Cherie and the children had nothing to do with Tony's
decisions. God's response, it is reliably reported, was: "Blair says the
Iraqis are lucky to have got bombed, so how can he complain if his
family gets a few toads in the bath?"
www.terry-jones.net
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