Shame On The Post

I was a huge fan of Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom County" back in the '80s, but "Opus" has been pretty hit-and-miss. This week's strip made me laugh, but apparently, some people at the Washington Post weren't laughing. Well, maybe they did after the Post banned it from Sunday's edition.

According to various sources, the strip was shown ahead of time to Muslim staffers to gauge their reaction, and they responded "emotionally" to Lola being depicted in traditional Islamic clothing and espousing conservative Islamic views. For that reason, and because of the risque punchline, the Post & other papers did not run this yesterday. And, they won't run the follow-up strip on September 2, either.

Shame on them all.

Maybe in the future, they won't publish any stories on the practice of female circumcision. Or about the slavery of blacks in Arab North Africa. Or the oppression of women under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Or "honor" killings. After all, why offend someone's weak sensibilities?