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Drawing wrong conclusions : Comments

By Irfan Yusuf, published 6/4/2006

The president of the world's largest Muslim country laughed when told of the cartoon. Only God knows what the dingoes are thinking.

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Irf

Thank you for your article.

It's pretty clear that the dingoes are saying: "Up you mate!".

By the way, I have never found any of your articles or your posts "humble" - far from it!

Cheers
Kay
Posted by kalweb, Thursday, 6 April 2006 8:03:32 PM
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The retort by "The Australian" was pathetic.They should have had the Indonesian president dressed in the full berka saying, "Bam Bang I shot you down."Then reciting the Old Mother Hubbard giving the dog a bone of her own.

Good to see Irf has a sense of humour.Yep the Muslims for the last 1300yrs have been too focused on the demise of the West.We have stuffed our own civilisation without any help.

The new rising star is China,our oldest surviving civilisation.They are smart ,industrious and hungry for power.Their totalitarian regeme does not auger well for tolerance of narrow minded religion.Within the next 20yrs,they will be the new world power and will not be tolerant like Christians and turn the other cheek to threats of violence or imposition of medievil philosophies.

Belief systems based on faith and hand me down bedtime stories are not enough to progress to a higher consciousness in this real world of scientific discovery.
Posted by Arjay, Thursday, 6 April 2006 10:43:51 PM
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Reality check please. Firstly, "Rakyat Merdeka" is a nationalist-orientated newspaper - not an Islamic one - that supported Mega until she got too snooty for her kebaya (although it did call itself Saddam News during the initial Iraqi War in March 2003). Secondly, Indonesia is not about to break apart. The country's very strong at its edges in places like Manado and Kupang even if these places are largely Christian.

BUT the Indonesians ARE screwing West Papua and I loved both the cartoons. More dingos and less politics please.

And free Schapelle too. She's innocent!
Posted by rogindon, Friday, 7 April 2006 10:03:03 AM
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It is funny how Australia implements double-standard, if Australian/Western cartoonists made insulting cartoons on non-white people (eg. Danish cartoon), they said it was their "press freedom". However, when Indonesian cartoonist mock Australian PM and FM, Australians show agitated reaction and one of your "award-winning" cartoonist even made a childish "revenge cartoon". Had this "revenge cartoon" not came out, we Indonesians wouldn't have known about the original cartoon. You Australians reacted like a baby being agitated by sight of a clown on TV. Quite amusing.
Posted by Proud to be Indonesian, Sunday, 9 April 2006 1:19:13 AM
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