Assad cringes as he turns the calendar from Thursday to Friday, the traditional day of protest.
Photos of Farzat and his cartoons have been taken from his Facebook page.
Assad's Cartoonish Crackdown
Ali Farzat, one of the Arab world's most famous satirists, was assaulted on the streets of Damascus today. Here are some of the drawings that landed him in the hospital.
BY DAVID KENNER | AUGUST 25, 2011
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David Kenner is an associate editor at Foreign Policy.
These are great, I'm not so keen on the Israel one but the others are brilliant.
David, the only complaint I have with the slide show is that
the key cartoon that appears to have been the straw that broke the camel's back-- of Assad and Khadaffi making like Hope & Crosby on the Road to wherever, wasn't included in the slide show.
I can't seem to find it on line, any chance you could update the slide show and include this one in the mix?
Given my experience with Arab caricaturists, I was pleasantly surprised that the drawing about Israel doesn't seem antisemitic.
Antisemitism is a US/European thing
Of course you are surprised because you measure everyone and everything using your own standards and ethics. Anti-semitism is a European thing. Many of the Jews that escaped racism in Europe ended up in the Arab world simply because there is no anti-semitism in our corner of the world. We have an Israeli occupation of Palestine, which is a totally different matter.
Akhbarbarism is a Muslim/Arab thing
Of course you are surprised because you don't understand how us Muslims are your superiors, uh, in all things unmeasurable. Imagine the frustration and the humiliation of coming in last in everything when really you should always come in first, you'd be frothing mad too in no time.
Thus, the enslavement, persecution and genocidal campaigns against Buddhists, Animists, Bahá'í, Christians, Jews and even other sectarian Muslims is simply a totally different matter. Plus, it is not depraved savagery when it's Allah ordering us to do so.
Too bad it got him in the hospital..
At the end, we all should be able to exercise our right to our opinion and should be able to laugh at ourselves. One thing we can say about living in the USA, at least we all can take a joke or two. In other countries censorship is applied as soon as you try to make a joke of public employees. And sometimes can get you in the hospital!
The assumption that it was "masked members of President Bashar al-Assad's security forces" that had beaten Mr. Farzat is conspiratorial in nature and unprofessional for a respected publication.
Yes, Ali is critical and has problems with the regime. Yet, he has been living in his country since he was born. He was as critical in the past. But, he was given license to publish the first private magazine in Syria's recent history (Al-Dumari). He was tolerated by the regime due to his connections with the highest echelon in the country. He was so sure of his safety that he was going home at 02:00 in the morning (this bellies the media spinning about Damascus being unsafe) because he never expected what has happened to him.
The Syrian government announced that it is investigating the incident to bring the culprits to justice. No one knows yet who they might be.
To assume that it is the "masked mebers of Al-Asad's security forces" is presupmtious and unprofessional for the simple reason that the man is protected by the regime despite his critical cartoons. Had the regime wanted him, he would have been arrested long time ago. No need to beat him publically because it would create problems for the regime. Could it be some "masked gunmen from the opposition" who have done it to embarrass the regime?????????
It is good to think and not to assume and accuse blindly.
Context is everything old chap.
The fact is that Assad is facing the most serious rebellion against his rule in the whole time he has been in power. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa he has watched as dictators who would have seemed rock solid just a year ago have been toppled one by one.
Is it such a stretch of the imagination to think that he might now be lashing out at any threat to his regime at the moment whether real or perceived? Even gadflies that he may have been quite happy to tolerate up until very recently?
You might be right, he might have been mugged by some random bunch of thugs, then again he might not have been.
But if I were a betting man...
Saleh to Bashful Assad's rescue....
Really?
"(It is) presupmtious (sic) and unprofessional for the simple reason that the man is protected by the regime despite his critical cartoons."
...protected from whom, dipshiite?
-NEXT!
How hard is it to spell "oppression" (fig. 6)?
hey Kenner,
Quite the caption for number 9, but why take it upon yourself to whitewash such an obvious antisemitic cartoon? I ask because you'd have to be a rather flaming cretin to interpret the character as an Israeli and not as the classic Jew. Can you spell TOP HAT, a-hole?
Really folks, do we have to make fun of a man in the hospital? I really don't understand this at all.
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Ali Farzat, one of the Arab world's most famous satirists, was assaulted on the streets of Damascus today. Here are some of the drawings that landed him in the hospital. The assumption that it was "masked members of President Bashar al-Assad's security forces" that had beaten Mr. Farzat is conspiratorial in nature and unprofessional for a respected publication. Yes, Ali is critical and has problems with the regime. Yet, he has been living in his country since he was born. He was as critical in the past. But, he was given license to publish the first private magazi attorneys In the early morning hours of Aug. 24, masked members of President Bashar al-Assad's security forces pulled Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat out of his car near Damascus's Umayyad Mosque. He was then beaten, mainly on his hands, and dumped on the road leading to the airport. Pictures of Farzat convalescing in a hospital bed were posted today on Facebook. ( bodybuildingguide, bacterialvaginosissymptoms.
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