The New York Times Gratuitously Assaults Catholics, but Not Muslims

The New York Times has published an editorial regarding the Jyllands-Posten Cartoon Controversy.

In the editorial, they say, “The New York Times and much of the rest of the nation's news media have reported on the cartoons but refrained from showing them. That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.”

So, The New York Times refrains from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, yet, in this article, they prominently display a photograph showing a collage of the Virgin Mary made with “cutouts from pornographic magazines and shellacked clumps of elephant dung”.

Isn’t the Virgin Mary a religious symbol of the Catholic Church?

Isn’t a collage of the Virgin Mary made from pornographic photos and clumps of elephant dung a “gratuitous assault” on a religious symbol?

So it’s OK to show that, but they won’t publish the infamous “Muhammad cartoons”?

Kinda makes you go, hmmm…

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