Liberals have a special knack for hypocrisy.
After the January 2015 massacre by Muslim jihadists of 12 staffers of the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the New York Times was one of several major print media that refused to reprint a Hebdo cartoon of Muhammad.
Cartoon of Muhammad on a 2011 cover of Charlie Hebdo. The quote, in English, is “100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter”.
In an email, a NYT spokesperson explained why:
Under Times standards, we do not normally publish images or other material deliberately intended to offend religious sensibilities. After careful consideration, Times editors decided that describing the cartoons in question would give readers sufficient information to understand today’s story.
Notwithstanding its professed standards of not publishing images that “deliberately intend to offend religious sensibilities,” on May 29, 2015, in a Scott Reyburn article on the sale of Chris Ofili’s controversial painting “The Holy Virgin Mary,” which shows the Virgin Mary clotted with elephant dung against a porn-collage background, the same New York Times saw fit to publish a photograph of the painting that is offensive to Christians, especially Catholics.
Ofili’s 1996 painting caused a furor when it was shown at the Brooklyn Museum in October 1999. The 8 ft. painting of a black Virgin Mary encrusted with a lump of elephant dung, surrounded by collaged bottoms from pornographic magazines, outraged religious leaders and then Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who described the painting as “sick stuff” and tried to close the exhibition by withholding public funds. But Giuliani’s attempt was rejected by a federal judge. The painting was subsequently acquired by Australian entrepreneur David Walsh, who now wants to sell it.
Source: NewsBusters
Christopher Ofili, 46, was born in Manchester, UK, of Nigerian parents. Wikipedia describes him as a “Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung.”
~Éowyn
