OK, for those of you who don't know, there's a rather big meeting going on in Copenhagen right now. At stake is the future of life as we know it. Of course, whenever the Great Danes are involved in anything, they like to enjoy themselves, and who better to spout politically incorrect comics than Danish cartoonists?
I'd love to know the reaction of a certain Mr Thackeray - and I'm not talking about William Makepeace - at this comic strip. Did someone say lynching?
Mr Thackeray, and I'm sure a lot of you, would be completely justified in your outrage. Not for the first time have these Danish cartoonists insulted people and got away with it. The strip hurts the sentiments of millions of proud Mumbaikars and a billion Indians, who just a year ago suffered a heinous terrorist attack. It should be condemned and the cartoonists should be brought to justice. After all, what does Anderlecht have that Mumbai does not?
Does Anderlecht have the largest slum in its continent? Does Anderlecht have rampant poverty right next to obscene wealth? Does tiny Anderlecht have 13 million people crammed in 603 square kilometres? No. It's per capita income is 10 times that of Mumbai, and it has almost universal literacy. How in Odin's name is it Earth's cavitus posterioris?
I wondered why all night, and then I found out. Anderlecht is home to Régine Zylberberg, the inventor of the discotheque. Just for that, it deserves pride of place between the freckled cheeks of this doomed planet's behind.
So who gets the rope?
Good blog!
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