Cartoon by Michael Fredman
Author Archives: Michael
Un-shellfish
In the beginning was the word and the word was fabulous
In Orlando, a man with an assault rifle killed 50 LGBT people and injured 53 more in a gay nightclub he used to himself frequent. After murdering these people he rang 911 and pledged his allegiance to Islamic State, which has since applauded his actions. His father was more circumspect and said it was God’s job to punish gays.Religiously entrenched homophobia is rife in orthodox and fundamentalist embodiments of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, around the world. But this hatred is normalised to murderous effect in countries that kill people, now in 2016, for being gay.
There are 10 countries where homosexuality is punished by state enforced execution, the majority of them are Islamic, including Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. See the Washington Post’s map
The idea that your God would want gay people killed while making one in ten of all of us, atheist, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist etc. gay, is ludicrous to me, that is what this cartoon is about.
Pray it forward
Another terrorist attack, the same perpetrators, the same responses. Some suggest we should pray for the victims. This cartoon contemplates that suggestion.
Good grief
Grief-shaming is the latest social media trend, after Facebook made it easy for users to change their profile pics to be tricoloured in sympathy with the 140 murdered victims of the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
Guns don’t kill people
I’ve lost a drawing of a dog I did for a painting, so I’ve been flicking through sketchbooks where I found this picture from the LAST horrific school shooting by an anonymous gun owning American. Not this latest one. Guns do kill people, in so far as where there are more guns there are more deaths, by gun.
and I feel fine
So apparently the UK Trident nuclear defence system would be launched if the submarine was unable to pick up Radio 4, as this would be taken to indicate the UK was no longer a functioning state – see journalist Simon Rickett’s tweet below:
Interesting detail I didn’t know, The signal that the UK is no longer a functioning state – Radio 4 cannot be heard. pic.twitter.com/hRJs2tpPBy
— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) September 30, 2015
Laughing all the way to the Banksy
Interesting times
Just a little doodle that stands alone but was inspired by the news that London’s police force is reporting Islamophobic incidents are up 70 per cent and antisemitic incidents up 93 per cent.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here – this is the War Room
A little doodle in response to the controversial idea of the former CIA director, it is explained in more detail on CNN but still seems more than a little ‘wacky’, to say the least.
Is This Some Kind Of Joke? 