If Huckabee Was A Hindu Fundamentalist
January 5th, 2008A comic by Ted Rall appeared on Yahoo! this week, referring to a hypothetical Mike Huckabee in the garb of a Hindu fundamentalist. I thought it was pretty amusing.
The comic also sparked a bit of debate on reddit, but I hope most people realized that the cartoon aimed to point out the way fundamentalism of any kind virtually falls apart if taken literally. Unfortunately (in my humble opinion, of course), this wisdom is not demonstrated through the results of the Iowa caucus.
(Update) As this page just got linked, I thought I would explicitly add my perspective on the subject instead of leaving it (my opinion) open to interpretation. One has to understand that it has been targeted at the so called ‘ignorant’ American whose knowledge of Hinduism is probably derived from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It is easy to see the rhetoric in this cartoon, as the concepts outlined are pretty bizarre in a scientific context. It would easily make a person of any religion see the sarcasm, especially how misguided religious fundamentalists in the West (as with any other part of the world) are.
