I think this is a shame. Even if you take away the memorials, the bits of plastic and glass and mangled tree left by the towtruck can still be seen, and having a thicket of crosses on sharp bends serves to warn drivers and cheer cyclists (except of course when they were done wrong).
Karim–who I believe to be an active believer, is such is possible, and who, for all I know, may want to cut my head off–has an eminently sensible response to the cartoons: Muhammed was used to get such situations with the kouraich and the whole unfaithful lobby who accused him with sorcery, and the ability…
The judge accepted the truly terrible story of the young man involved: that he’d been tempted out the disco by a (female) gogo dancer who, to his understandable disappointment, delivered him into the clutches of three drag-queens, also hired by the disco. The four then took him into the bathroom, handcuffed him, and gave him…
With the universe about to go up in flames as a result of a couple of innocent cartoons (check Belgium’s Le Soir’s take on the French Egyptian Le Soir’s problems), I wonder what the effect would be were Hans Teeuwen’s God and Allah sketch to be translated into a language more generally understood. In it…