Sunday Sentence

katha p_0In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.

I don’t agree that the drawings of Mohammed are in a different key than the magazine’s rude caricatures of the Pope or Hasidic rabbis or the Virgin Mary just after being raped by the three kings, but maybe that’s in the eye of the beholder.

Source: Katha Pollitt, “‘Charlie Hebdo’ Deserves Its Award for Courage in Free Expression. Here’s Why” (The Nation)