The Morning News - Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?, by Choire Sicha The Morning News - Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?, by Choire Sicha

Any analysis of the Muhammad cartoon flap that includes the phrase, "screw you, New Pope!" amuses me. It boggles the mind that this whole hoo-haw started because a childrens' book writer was having trouble finding an illustrator. See, the book was about Muhammad, and according to some sects of Islam, any representation of the Prophet is Idolatry. Of couse, there is a long history of pictures of Muhammad in Islam texts for at least the last thousand years, but we won't talk about that.  ¶ 16:03