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A German feminist artist who has been honored by a journalist group for her caricatures, is now facing a fiery backlash over a series of "racist" and "Islamophobic" cartoons -
many of them relentlessly poking fun at Sharia law.
Franziska Becker's works have come under the spotlight after the Female Journalists Association (
Journalistinnenbund) awarded her a prize for her "keen-witted and sharp-tongued" depiction of men and women.
The group hailed Becker as "one of the most prominent, feminism-oriented successful personalities" - but the praise hit a nerve with some Germans.
Criticism began amassing on social media shortly after news of the award broke. Sibel Schick, a contributor to women's
Missy Magazine and TAZ outlet - and, ironically, a self-described pro-choice feminist - was one of the first to
post some of Becker's cartoons which she dubbed "anti-Islam and racist."
One caricature depicts a kindergarten where children - girls all wearing headscarves - are seen playing with toy "suicide" trucks or hijacked planes. Others are building a mosque and erecting a minaret.
Comment: Just as a minority of LGBTQ people have pushed things too far into the realm of "anything goes", now there will be blowback by a conservative minority that will be EQUALLY overdone and overly moralistic, resulting in the exact opposite of what everyone actually wants (peace and quiet). In other words, we already have equality, because everyone is equally nuts and equally incapable of thinking in anything other than black or white terms.