I found this cartoon by searching "stereotypical cartoons of the east" on google. This cartoon was intended to be humorous, but it failed miserably. It makes me angry to know that this is how the 'West' views the 'East'. The two men in the cartoon are wearing the sterotypical garment of a turban and long robes. They are both practicing their faith by praising their God, but then they pull our their guns and start shooting each other. I think the cartoon is playing with the fact that the common stereotype of Middle Easterners is that they are all super religious. The cartoon is trying to make a joke out of the fact that the men are praying one moment, and then commiting the "sin of murder". I don't think that it is funny AT ALL that there are some people out there drawing cartoons like this that make fun of the internal conflicts in the Middle East.
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This cartoon is just kind of appalling. It makes the American who drew it look worse than the people portrayed in it. Though meant to be portraying the Sunnis and Shiites, this cartoon to me says that all the Middle East does is practice religion and cause violence, which is completely false. Cartoons and other disrespectful messages like this one make me question peoples' principles.
The way in which this incredibly ignorant cartoon mocks the troubling middle eastern conflict is shocking. While this middle eastern conflict is difficult for many westerners to understand, it is unfair for an external and negatively involved party (such as American citizens) to judge and criticise a conflict such as this, when the USA has enough of its own problems that it should be assessing.
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