New Pope Cartoon make me laff - cartoons are funny!

Disturbing cartoon and troubling questions
The drawings by Pakistani satirist Shujaat Ali begin with Pope John Paul II releasing white doves marked religious harmony. In the next set of frames, Pope Benedict XVI shoots the doves down with a double-barreled shotgun

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The drawings by Pakistani satirist Shujaat Ali begin with Pope John Paul II releasing white doves from a cardboard box marked "religious harmony." In the next set of frames, Pope Benedict XVI, with St. Peter's Basilica in the background, shoots the doves down with a double-barreled shotgun. The final frames, also with St. Peter's in the background, show three blood-spattered birds on the ground at the feet of John Paul II, now sitting in a chair grasping his pastoral staff. With a look of dismay, he raises his hand to his forehead, while Pope Benedict stands beside him, one hand propped on the gun and the other on his hip, looking out at the viewer.



The message is crystal-clear: John Paul II was a man of peace; Benedict XVI is a killer of peace. Sadly, the image risks entering the popular imagination of many Muslims and remaining there.