DogsEyeNews - Danish cartoon attacks Shih Tzu

No target is too small or insignificant to escape the razor sharp wit of the Danes.

For ancient owners of the Shih Tzu, the Tibetan temple dog is regarded as sacred. So revered is the tiny scamp that portrayal of its cutey-pie visage is regarded as sacrilege.

The Danes, being relentless perfectionists in all things, even cartooning, moved swiftly as soon as they learned of the ban. The Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, commissioned Danish cartoonists to attack the prohibition on images of the Shih Tzu.

The published cartoons, one of which is shown here (in the interests of press freedom only), caused immediate reactions throughout the dog world.

The American Shih Tzu Club decried the cartoons while also appealing to its members to remain calm. "We would have hoped that the Danes would corrected their path to one where there is respect for different points of view," said a hastily issued press release, "but we don't want people burning down embassies over this."

Meanwhile, Muslim cartoonists are struggling to come up with something that aggravates Westerners as much as the Danish cartoons aggravate the people who read Islamic newspapers:

Queen of Denmark as belly dancer zzzzz

Hilter as pedophile like that's worse than he was???

It can't be easy for Muslim cartoonists; they are, after all, members of the press and educated intellectuals. How hard it must be to connect with your "inner fundamentalist."