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...they have done in the past, western media outlets covered the event with equal parts fascination and horror. Graphic images of the Ashura procession were the most popular photographs on Yahoo! early last week, and virtually all the major newspapers and television networks eagerly reported on the self-mutilation ritual before it was overshadowed by terror attacks in Karbala and Baghdad later that day. Though the coverage varied in style and tone, the skewed focus on Ashura’s violent rather than religious aspects seemed to reflect the media’s prejudices as much more than the holiday...
...course, the release of The Passion and the sometimes barbaric worship of Ashura are not the same thing. Onscreen violence is never the same as real-life violence, no matter how graphic. Non-Muslims certainly have a right to ask why some Shiites choose to observe Ashura as they do; violence, even violence done by individuals against themselves, is something people instinctively fear, and such questions are entirely justified...
...comic about his or her life. Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor," about the travails of a Cleveland file clerk, has become the best known ordinary-guy autobiography, but virtually every great cartoonist of the last twenty years has tried their hand at it. Two recent graphic novels are perfect examples of comix' ability to capture the drama of less public lives...
...clear about the commercials. There is nothing graphic. No bodies. No blood. No names. This is not the Passion of 9/11, just iconographic images that we all remember, including the solemn bearing of a coffin and views of the devastation...
...M.I.T. An electrical-engineering student started GeekPorn, a graphic online magazine illustrating the connection between student geekiness and sexiness...