Of the three cartoons below, which were all published this year, one has been re-printed by the leftist press as a harmless bit of humor, one has been derided as an outrageous bit of racism, and the other has been given a major award. Can you spot which is which?

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The answer?

Cartoon A, from un-funny toilet-humor cartoonist Johnny Hart, has been met with outrage by the muslim community in the United States. Why? Because apparently it’s a hidden slur about Islam (notice the ‘slam’ sound effect; that’s the offending part). B.C., the strip from which this particular cartoon comes, is an aging, occasionally humorous family strip about prehistoric life.

Cartoon B was downloaded from the horrendously anti-Semitic Indymedia network. Normally, I’d ignore hate sites, but Indymedia is a special case. First of all, they’re indexed by Google News as a legitimate news page, and therefore have some amount of influence. Secondly, they’re not a hate site, according to their charter. Instead, they’re simply a Liberal-leaning news source. If that’s liberal ideology, I’ll stick to being a redneck anti-intellectual conservative. I’d rather be obligated to love money than hate Jews.

That brings us to C. This is a cartoon by Dave “Zyklon” Brown, a lefty political cartoonist in England. The Political Cartoon Society , whoever they are, gave Brown the Political Cartoon of the Year award for this. On its face, it’s a rather melodramatic, unoriginal cartoon with about as much critical insight as a Nuremberg rally banner. It’s not particularly well-drawn, nor is it stylistically compelling. All-in-all, just another Jew-hatin’ cartoon. The real travesty of its acceptance, indeed its praise, is that it plays on a horrifying piece of Arab anti-Semitic folklore. You see, one of the hitleresque myths that Muslims spread about Jews, is that they use the blood of palestinian children to make ceremonial bread. (see also this article at memri.org).

Now, I know and (hopefully) you know Jews don’t eat palestinian babies. Why would they? The problem is that this particular myth has power among arabs. They believe it the way Europeans believe the Jessica Lynch rescue was faked. They read it somewhere, it seemed believable, and they just integrated it into their long list of Why the Jew Must Go. Don’t forget, muslims believe rays shoot out of the hairs of women, forcing men to rape them.

But these last two cartoons weren’t drawn by Arabs. They were drawn by intellectuals and academics. The first was drawn by a christian, and therefore is automatically suspect.