Bosch Fawstin

Liam Neeson is TAKEN with Islam

2012-01-25T16:17:00.000-05:00

Liam Neeson is considering becoming a Muslim for profound reasons ... & Islam means peace.

In the sequel to TAKEN, will Neeson's character now Take over the gang he fought in the original?

Terrorist Healthcare

2012-01-25T02:30:00.000-05:00

Mitt Romney's commitment to government run healthcare is so deep that he'll even praise it if it's run by a terrorist group with American blood on its hands. See the 2008 video here.

Commander in Crotch

2012-01-23T16:24:00.000-05:00

In light of the TSA's attempted grope of Senator Rand Paul, I'm posting on my blog for the first time a cartoon I did in Nov. 2010 for NewsRealBlog.com. It was inspired by a Washington Times editorial, “Obama’s Hand in Your Crotch", with the Very Important subtitle:

“White House denial of Islamic threat to blame for TSA groping.”

Speak No Islam

2012-01-21T14:49:00.000-05:00

The new Tom Hanks film gets "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" to taking on Islam ... & Islam means peace.

Here's my True take on the poster for the film, which deals with 9/11, but from what I gather doesn't get anywhere near the reason behind the atrocity. Here are the trailers for the film. I imagine that the kid in the film, in his search for ... whatever it is he's searching for ... would instead be searching for the Truth behind why his father, and thousands of others, were murdered on 9/11.

Here was my take on the Steven Spielberg film, Munich, which despite solid production values and a good cast, was a moral failure because the filmmakers couldn't resist shoehorning their sympathy for the devil into the story, which undercut the heroes and the whole point of the film.

The Loons at LoonWatch

2012-01-20T19:02:00.000-05:00

The website "LoonWatch", who goes after Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and have even gone after me when my Batman cartoon landed me on The Daily Show, are now being called out, of all places, by a writer at the leftist site The Daily Kos, Eric Allen Bell. LoonWatch is correctly referred to as a "Terrorist Spin Control Network" by Bell in his article. Robert Spencer had an exchange with Bell, as he writes about in this post at Jihad Watch.

The Enemy's New Hope

2012-01-20T17:16:00.001-05:00

Today's reason why Ron Paul is unfit to be Commander in chief. Right one is from last year.

The Giggler

2012-01-19T23:45:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul habitually responds to questions of a deadly serious nature by giggling.
Giggler, defined by the "Urban Dictionary": "Someone who is daft, idiotic, or criminally insane. That guy's a total giggler; he was all but drooling."
Also see The Hoper

BUCKED OVER

2012-01-19T13:27:00.000-05:00

Graphic from THE INFIDEL print companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad.

I did the above graphic in June 2008 and today, 2012, instead of the Islamophile in Chief George "Islam is peace" Bush doing his part to help the Saudis get nukes, China is now doing their part.

When a clear enemy of the American people, the second greatest state sponsor of jihad terrorism after Iran, doesn’t need to worry about paying any price for it, they can and will act with impunity against us, so long as they smile while doing it and buy enough powerful politicians.

For the record, the accompanying visual is meant to convey how our leaders have prostituted themselves for Saudi cash, with dire consequences that we can't even begin to see. And that's Pigman standing in for the incorruptible American Individual, who will pay the price for this sell out. And the Saudi flag, (which appropriately has swords on it) spreads its green within Washington P.C.s flag, as distinguished from The American Flag, which stays a true red white and blue.

PISSED

2012-01-18T13:48:00.000-05:00

If it pisses off the enemy and gutless Islamophiles, it can't be that bad. And since Mohammad told Muslims to get piss drunk off of camel urine, I guess it's only infidel piss that Muslims have a problem with. Here's what Pigman thinks about SuperJihad's call for submission, from THE INFIDEL print companion, PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad.

Crier in Chief

2012-01-17T15:09:00.000-05:00

Barack O'Boehner? The Crier of the House now has competition in the "Cry-Baby in Chief".

Obama has a "tendency to cry. In Kantor’s book, Obama is repeatedly on the verge of tears. “During the campaign,” writes Kantor, “Obama told friends he couldn’t look at [Valerie] Jarrett during speeches lest he become too emotional and start to cry.” (That was because Jarrett played both sister and mother to Obama, as Kantor relates.) At the launch party for his poorly-written second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, Kantor says, “he stood alone at the front of the tent, overcome with tears.” Just a few pages later, Obama is at it again, “tears in his eyes” while watching his daughter “practice dance moves,” since he sees her so seldom. Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Obamas “felt better understood than they did in Washington” – and once again, Obama was “fighting back tears” during his speech." More...

Religion & Politics aside for a moment....

2012-01-17T04:16:00.000-05:00

Dominic Boudreault, motion photographer, gives us a beautiful breather.
Go here for a Big version.

Timelapse - The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.

"..Obama's...So Dumb" - newsWEAK

2012-01-16T19:29:00.001-05:00

Countering newsWEAK's latest cover(up) story on dumB.O.

Here's their actual cover....albeit more honest via my red lines.

An oldie from 2009

"TERRORIST!" - Terrorist

2012-01-16T18:36:00.000-05:00

As with my last post, far too much projection going on these days.

"RACIST!" - Racist

2012-01-16T18:31:00.000-05:00

Far too much projection going on these days.

REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL...

2012-01-15T17:48:00.000-05:00

Ayn Rand says it better than anyone, from Atlas Shrugged, 1957:

“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”

Then: Naziphobia - Now: Islamophobia

2012-01-13T15:39:00.000-05:00

Truthophobia then, Truthophobia now. Can you imagine the WW2 generation tolerating a phrase such as "Nazism means peace"? As I put it on a panel discussion recently, "

Using terms such as "Radical Nazism" leads to a search for "Moderate Nazis"

Hitler, who I refer to as "Islam's Favorite Infidel", was a fan of Islam, calling it a "Masculine Religion", as well as allying himself with The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who did his worst to expedite the holocaust. And Muslims have made Hitler's book, Mein Kampf - My Struggle, translated to My Jihadi in the Middle East, (jihad meaning struggle) a best seller in the Muslim world. And Hitler, like today's mass-murdering jihadist enemy, used peace to further war, saying:

"…National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions….Germany needs peace and desires peace…."

Islamophobia was concocted by the enemy in order to kill truth-telling about Islam in The West. They've failed, and lets make sure they never succeed by telling the truth again and again and again. Here are more of my posts on "islamophoNia"

Pigman drawn on the iPad

2012-01-13T01:15:00.002-05:00

Pigman drawn by my finger on the iPad's "Brushes" app.

PRESIDEBT

2012-01-12T20:11:00.000-05:00

Perfect typeO, someone on twitter mistyped Presidebt correctly.

I'll be on the "JUST RIGHT" radio program tomorrow

2012-01-11T13:03:00.003-05:00

Listen live at 11am Eastern Time Thursday morning, where we'll engage in some small talk on religion & politics :)

http://www.justrightmedia.org/

OLDT

2012-01-10T19:40:00.000-05:00

Nothing Newt

@AynRandBot

2012-01-09T23:45:00.000-05:00

"Either we believe that the State exists to serve the individual or that the individual exists to serve the state." - Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a novelist-philosopher who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. The twitter account, @AynRandBot, tweets quotations from her work with the permission of Ayn Rand's heir. The above quote is just one example of the absolute gems from Ayn Rand that you'll find posted daily on Twitter and Facebook. To those who are already fans of Ayn Rand, and who have a pre-existing, active twitter account, consider voting for the AynRandBot for a Shorty Award, which honors the best producers of short content on social media. For more on the AynRandBot...

The above graphic, minus the text, is from My Ayn Rand Print.

Who Doesn't Like Mitt Romney?

2012-01-09T20:09:00.000-05:00

No one seems to like Mr. "Electable", like no one seems to like fruitcake.

I Agree with Ron Paul.....

2012-01-09T19:05:00.001-05:00

...& ronApaulogists that we should trade with state sponsors of terrorism once and for all, but only in a just, rational way.

HOPE 2 : Doublin' Down

2012-01-08T13:26:00.000-05:00

This ought to be the true slogan for B.O.'s reelection campaign. And I repeat from my last post:

If you ever doubted Obama's hatred for America, his campaigning for reelection proves it.

HATE behind "HOPE"

2012-01-08T13:00:00.000-05:00

If you ever doubted Obama's hatred for America, his campaigning for reelection proves it.

A self-hatred that encompasses the entire country and all that it once stood for.

PIGMAN: Mock the Floor with Them

2012-01-07T00:05:00.000-05:00

From Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in 1940 to Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator (below the graphic) coming this year, we've had a long history of mocking the enemy during war time, and may that never end. The below graphic is from THE INFIDEL companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad

Follow PIGMAN on Twitter

2012-01-06T18:56:00.001-05:00

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The Jihadist's Worst Nightmare, currently featured in THE INFIDEL serialized graphic novel

Click here

I Need Your Vote

2012-01-06T02:08:00.000-05:00

If you like my work, please consider voting for me in the blogger category for The Shorty Awards, which honors the "..Best Producers of Short Content on Social Media.” The awards seem to be based entirely upon votes in the form of Tweets, and anyone with an active Twitter account (an account that predated the beginning of the voting period, January 3) can vote. Go to this page for more details and instructions on how to vote. Thank you.

UPDATE: I'm currently in 12th place. If you haven't, consider voting here.

Praise for Table for One

2012-01-05T16:06:00.001-05:00

Table for One was my first graphic novel, which led to my being nominated for a Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award & an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. Here's what others had to say about it, most notably for me personally, Alex Toth, who I hold to be the single greatest illustrator to ever draw comic books.

“A mighty talented pro. Write/draw/stage/tellstories with brilliant savvy to all elements in the mix!..Kudos!”

- Alex Toth

"An auspicious debut...

...We'll be served much more by this fellow and I can't wait for the dessert."

- Denis Kitchen

"A single night in a single setting, that conveys an entire way of life, an entire philosophy, the past, present and future of several characters...

...the dialogue: succinct, idealistic and tough!"

- Joe Zabel

“If Will Eisner were to do a graphic novel abouta night in a restaurant, this would be it...”

- HowardPrice, The Trades

“In just 88 pages, Bosch Fawstin renewed my faithin comics... wonderfully illustrated and skillfully written comics.”

- BrianDomingos, PopImage

“Solid debut... lots of power struggles in thisstory...in the end, comes down to who can stand their ground.”

- RichWatson

“Table for One is a showcase for Bosch Fawstin'stimeless, classic art....A truly gorgeous dramatic novel.”

- MatthewCraig, Robot Fist

Outlaw in Chief

2012-01-04T23:51:00.000-05:00

"I think this is a lawless action by the president
at the end of a long string of lawless actions."

"ISLAMOPHOBE!" - Truthophobe

2012-01-04T22:10:00.000-05:00

The graphic is from a panel in THE INFIDEL #1

THE INFIDEL makes "Controversial Comics of the Year" list

2012-01-04T18:24:00.001-05:00

Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool, who favorably reviewed THE INFIDEL #1 last year, added it to the bottom of the dozen comics he put on his "Controversial Comics of the Year" list, though it's at the top of his article about it. Thanks for considering such a "bigoted" comic for your list, Rich. :)

If you haven't read it and you want to find out why it made the cut, check out THE INFIDEL #1, which you can download and read in no time. More info here.

Be on the lookout for THE INFIDEL #2 next month.

3RD?

2012-01-04T00:17:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul did a Hell of a job........practicing his concession speech. He just came in third in the Iowa caucus. Blame yourself, Paul, particularly your sick, twisted, unjust foreign policy. Hopefully this is the end of your presidential pipe dream.

And now Ron Quixote answers the question on whether he can see himself with the Oval Office with:

"Not really."

Who Is The Most Appalling Candidate?

2012-01-02T16:47:00.000-05:00

Here are some reasons....

See all of my Ron Paul cartoons...

THE INFIDEL #2 hits in Feb. 2012

2012-01-01T16:15:00.000-05:00

That would make it a year since issue #1 was released, I'm embarrassed to say, but this past year has been a pretty big and busy one for me outside of The Infidel and I expect this coming year to be even bigger. But I also want to make it a priority to get more issues of THE INFIDEL out within this year. Thank you all for your continued support and interest, I will do my best to live up to it. Here's to a Great 2012.

Obama's Muslim Brothers

2012-01-01T13:26:00.001-05:00

This is who Barack Hussein Obama is working with, the Muslim Brotherhood jurist, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. I drew this scumbag last year for David Horowitz's Freedom Center. And to think I still have it in me to get surprised at how thoroughly un-American, anti-Semitic & Islamophilic our president is. Here's the story.

Pacifist in Chief

2011-12-31T21:06:00.000-05:00

Islam means peace & a Pacifist in Chief is the answer.

Gov Ball Drop

2011-12-31T15:15:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year, no matter what Rights Violating Governments have in store for us.

Ron Paul is MAD as Hell...

2011-12-30T17:16:00.001-05:00

"...and I'M Not Going to Take This Anymore!"

Alfred E. Oldman

So how mad is he?...

DeceptiKhan

2011-12-30T01:34:00.000-05:00

My latest piece in the "Voices of "Palestine"" series I'm doing for FrontPage Magazine.

Ron Paul running for Truther in Chief?

2011-12-29T16:31:00.000-05:00

See video below my drawing...

Pigman: Exploiting the Enemy's Pigotry

2011-12-29T15:53:00.000-05:00

A graphic from THE INFIDEL print companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad

Ron Paul : "Being There"

2011-12-29T12:24:00.000-05:00

My latest piece at PJ Media, on how unfit Ron Paul is to be Commander-in-Chief. Click image to see the full cartoon and how I think a President Ron Paul would react to a worst case scenario...

Happy Birthday, Stan Lee

2011-12-28T17:04:00.001-05:00

Thanks for being "The Man" behind the Marvel Universe, and special thanks for co-creating Spider-Man with Steve Ditko.

Ron Paul: A New HOPE?

2011-12-27T22:43:00.001-05:00

"If there was a time for Ron Paul it would be now, in an election against a Democratic administration that has dramatically extended Federal power and created its own mini-tyranny. The problem is that Paul is just as unqualified and broken as Obama. Both men are products of rigid ideology who insist that applying it will fix all problems. They are both surrounded by cults of personality that elevate ordinary mediocre men into the avatars of
hope and change." - Daniel Greenfield from his piece at his "Sultan Knish" blog:

"The Paul Pot and the Paulestinians"

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T00:53:00.001-05:00

"Merry Christmas, Fellow Infidels." - PIGMAN

2011-12-24T13:35:00.000-05:00

"The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says "Merry Christmas" -- not "Weep and Repent." And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form -- by giving
presents to one's friends, or by
sending them cards in token of remembrance."
- Ayn Rand

9 I I R A N

2011-12-23T01:52:00.002-05:00

Looks more and more like the world's greatest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, was in on 9/11.

Voices of "Palestine"

2011-12-22T23:37:00.000-05:00

This is just one of the many twisted creatures I've drawn for Front Page Magazine's "Voices of "palestine"" series. She was one of the jihadists who was freed by Israel in the heartfelt but brainless trade they made of a thousand prisoners, 477 of them convicted terrorists, for one individual Israeli. She's clearly as bloodthirsty as ever in this FOX News video.

Crier of the House

2011-12-22T19:32:00.000-05:00

What's John Boehner most known for? Crying. Instead of doing his job as Speaker of the House to be THE voice of opposition against the Obama agenda, he keeps on caving on important fights, and is now in competition with Glenn Beck to see who can cry more times in public.

Iran & Hezbollah Involved in 9/11?

2011-12-22T17:16:00.001-05:00

My graphic below never gets old, and now "in a decision that should forever change the story of 9/11 and the West's Middle East policy, Judge George Daniels has just ruled that Iran and Hezbollah are responsible for 9/11." More......

BANE & BOEHNER

2011-12-21T02:23:00.001-05:00

If you don't get it, go here.

Bane's Voice

2011-12-20T13:43:00.002-05:00

My take on The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer, from the 59 second mark...
Will Bane's voice be the bane of the film? I was able to figure out what Bane said in the trailer, after a few listens, (couldn't make out the word "ashes" in it at first) but I understood about 1/3rd of what he said in the prologue that's playing in front of Mission: Impossible in IMAX, appropriately, since the ability to understand Bane is Impossible.

As someone tweeted: "The Dark Knight Rises prologue was really great, especially when Bane spoke the soon-to-be-classic line: 'Mmrbl ffmrff hmrbblfmm."'

And from a friend: "my fav bane line was 'hdghfdgh ghhfdddrf hhjg?'

And to Christopher Nolan, from one movie to another...

Ron Paul Supporters Are...

2011-12-17T20:56:00.001-05:00

If Ron Paul placed LIFE before his idea of "Liberty", he would've placed the defense of America before any other reason he has for running for president

FREE SPEECH

2011-12-16T11:24:00.003-05:00

A Reminder for those who Clearly need it...

Have you seen "Moderate Islam"?

2011-12-15T13:38:00.003-05:00

R.I.P. Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America

2011-12-15T12:44:00.001-05:00

Joe Simon created Captain America with Jack Kirby, here's my take on their character from a number of years ago.

arrOgant

2011-12-15T01:55:00.001-05:00

B.O. places his legislative & foreign policy accomplishments in his 1st 2 years against any president, with the possible exception of Johnson, F.D.R. and Lincoln...

Mitt Romney slams Mitt Romney as "Progressive"

2011-12-14T18:09:00.000-05:00

"WhichMitt"

Take your TIME: PrOteSter or pROTesTER?

2011-12-14T16:10:00.020-05:00

TIME Magazine just named its "Person of the Year":

THE PROTESTER: From the Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow. (from the cover)

No mention of The Tea Party? Of course, this is the Leftist Time magazine and the Tea Party is the one protest movement that challenges their agenda. Maybe there's a slight mention of The Tea Party on the cover story inside, but who the hell has time to read Time? I suppose if we lived in a world where a TIME Magazine honored someone truly worthwhile as "The Individual of the Year" instead of a collective "Person", there'd be no protest against their choice.

"ELECTABLE!" is not a rallying cry

2011-12-13T03:16:00.004-05:00

"HOPE" & "CHANGE" was B.S., but "ELECTABLE" is no rallying cry.

"Mitt Romney is a Republican that Obama supporters -- people who will most certainly end up voting for Obama anyway -- can live with."

Romney is most like Obama and therefore most likely to lose against the real thing. Slowcialist vs Socialist is not the answer.

The 64 %

2011-12-13T01:49:00.004-05:00

An overwhelming 64 percent of Americans surveyed said big government was the biggest threat to America. "Little Love for big gov"

My AYN RAND Print for Christmas

2011-12-13T01:10:00.002-05:00

The print itself is 11" x 16-3/4", with 1" white margins (total paper size approximately 13" x 19"). It's a Limited Edition of 150, signed and numbered on acid-free matte paper. The print is being sold with the permission of the estate of Ayn Rand. The price is $40 plus shipping/handling (see total amounts, which include the print and shipping/handling, below).

Time's Turkey of the Year?

2011-12-13T00:31:00.001-05:00

UPDATE: TIME ended up choosing "The Protester" as their "Person of the Year"

Time magazine is poised to pick Turkey's Crime Minister Erdogan as their "Person of the Year."

The Urban Dictionary's definition of turkey: (n) a loser; an uncoordinated, inept, clumsy fool or a tool; a person who is not in with current culture and slang or is just generally uncool.

Here's the long rap sheet on Erdogan.

Rugged Collectivism

2011-12-12T04:12:00.000-05:00

Listen to the 1st hour of Amy Peikoff's podcast where she shreds Obama's latest and arguably worst speech, where he really pushes his egalitarian agenda.

PIGMAN: UnPakistan Now

2011-12-12T01:26:00.002-05:00

Pakistan harbors mass murderer of Americans Osama bin Laden for Years and we let them get away with it. Now they threaten to shoot down U.S. drones? We need to go in there and take over their nukes, dismantle them, and leave them with a death threat if they make any more false moves against us.

PIGMAN: Kill by the Book, Die by the Book

2011-12-11T00:41:00.002-05:00

From THE INFIDEL print companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad

"A Cartoonist vs. Jihad"

2011-12-09T02:53:00.001-05:00

I was on The Jamie Glazov Show Tues. night, Dec. 6th to talk about taking on Islam and its Jihad through my work. I really enjoyed the good give and take. You can listen to it here.

This One's for Rhea Page

2011-12-09T01:21:00.002-05:00

Four Muslim women brutally attacked 24 year old Rhea Page in England for no apparent reason. Then in the trial, the judge cited Islam as the reason......to let them off...... since they weren't used to drinking, being Muslim. In the horrors I read about on Islam's daily assault against the civilized world, there are always a few stories which make me choke up, this is one of them. There's a video of this attack available online that was very difficult to sit through, and it made me so angry that I felt I had to counter the disgusting brutality with this drawing. You deserve justice, Rhea, I hope your attackers and the judge pay for what they did to you.

PIGMAN on The Daily Show

2011-12-08T19:29:00.004-05:00

Don't Judge a Comic Book By its Creator's Appearance on The Daily Show.

Why I agreed to appear, and what was cut from the 3-hour taping.

On March 1st of this past year, “The Daily Show” aired a prerecorded segment that I taped with them a few weeks earlier. During the segment I was interviewed by Aasif Mandvi, the show’s “liberal Muslim” correspondent. The main topic discussed was the “Muslim” Batman, but we also spent a significant amount of time discussing my own creation, a counter-jihad superhero named Pigman. Based on what was filmed during the 3-hour shoot, the segment had the potential to be humorous, controversial and informative. How it actually turned out was the product of some pretty crafty editing. And, unfortunately, I had no control over that. It was still humorous, but it was gutted of almost all significant substance, and some of the good humorous bits were left out as well.

First, I need to explain why I agreed to do it at all. I’ve been working on my graphic novel, The Infidel featuring Pigman, for years. After trying with dozens of agents, editors, and publishers to get someone to take on the project, and finding that not even those who were sympathetic were willing to do so (some cited Muslim reprisal as a reason,) I needed to get publicity however I could. In this context, one day I received an e-mail from one of “The Daily Show” producers, asking me to appear and discuss my views on Nightrunner, the “Muslim” Batman, which I had discussed in this post here at NewsRealBlog.com. After having long conversations with two different producers, and realizing their interest in having me on was real, and included an interest in discussing Pigman, I decided, for better or worse, to go ahead with it.

When I arrived at the shoot, I learned that my interviewer would be Aasif Mandvi, the show’s “liberal” Muslim correspondent. When I commented on this to the producer (he had actually mentioned a different correspondent in one of the e-mails leading up to the shoot), he played dumb (of course.) I smelled a rat, but proceeded anyway. During my interactions with them on the set, the producer, Aasif, and the crew were professional and friendly, which was to be expected. (The producer was also friendly to me in correspondence via e-mail both before and after the shoot. This was also to be expected.)

Then came time for the sit-down interview. It was wide-ranging, going from serious to funny to silly to blasphemous. Here are some of the things I recall that were left out of the edited segment:

The most egregious omission/dropping-of-context was with respect to my answer to the question that was supposed to be the focus of the piece: “What is wrong with a Muslim Batman?” The aired segment makes it appear as if my answer was “Nightrunner could be a Jihadist.” During the actual shooting, I was prompted to state that as a complete sentence, after responding “yes” to Aasif’s question, “Could Nighrunner be a Jihadist?” That statement was NOT given as an answer to the question, “What is wrong with a Muslim Batman?” My answer to that question is and was a lot more involved. The short answer, which I stated immediately after being asked the question, and which was edited out, was, “What’s wrong with Batman, during WWII, recruiting a German Batman with no mention of Nazis?” During a significant portion of the interview, Aasif was emphasizing that comics aren’t real and was asking, in essence: Why can’t comics just take a piece of reality, out of context, if they want? My point was, you can’t peer into reality just a little bit, and pick-and-choose in this way. The only reason Nightrunner exists (and probably the reason Aasif is on “The Daily Show” although he seems to be a nice guy who does a good job) is because Muslim terrorists attacked us on September 11, 2001, and they did it in the name of Islam. (I made a similar point during the interview.) In my view, it is irresponsible for any cultural medium to include Muslims while dropping the larger context that is the reason for including them at all. (At least “The Daily Show” sometimes includes some of this larger context, and often does a good job of it.)

Another noteworthy instance of my being taken out of context was with respect to my view of the propensity of Muslims to become Jihadists, and how one should deal with self-described Muslims. Yes, I did say that I think it is possible for a Muslim to become a Jihadist. This is because, as I have learned in the research I did leading up to writing and drawing The Infidel, Islam prescribes Jihad as something its true believers should engage in, in order to spread Islam. What I discussed in the interview, which didn’t make it into the final segment, was my own attitude towards individual Muslims. I have family members who consider themselves Muslims with whom I am friendly, and I would certainly not conclude that your average Muslim is likely to become a Jihadist. They cut from the segment the following statement, which clearly distinguishes average Muslims from Islam’s consistent practitioners: “Your average Muslim is morally superior to Mohammed. They are individuals who may or may not be a problem. It’s Islam’s consistent practitioners, it’s organized Islam, that is the problem.” Obviously, this statement made me seem too reasonable (or maybe they thought it was too blasphemous) for it to be included in the segment.

Another significant point that was omitted was my view that, while most Muslims are relatively harmless, there are still aspects of Islam that are detrimental to even more passive Mulsims: the casual misogyny, anti-Semitism, and the idea that everyone outside the clan is, essentially, worthless. I was brought up surrounded by all of this.

Some less significant, but genuinely funny things were omitted. For example, when I was discussing the Islamization of the West by Muslims and Islamophiles — e.g., DC Comics featuring JLA/99 and Nightrunner — Aasif humorously tried to correct me, saying, “You mean Islamicizing.” And I replied, “No, Islamization.” He repeated, “Islamicizing?” I answered “Islamization.” This went on a few times until Aasif said, as if conceding, “Oh, Islamicizing, yeah, right, that’s the Muslim exercise,” to which I quipped, “Five times a day.” And then he said, “Ohhhh, Islamophobic humor.” I immediately dismissed this as “Islamophonia,” because fear of Islam is not irrational. And we had a little back-and-forth on that as well.

One unfortunate omission was something that was silly, but fun. They quoted my term, “IslamiCrap,” which I used in my post about Nightrunner. Aasif said only, “IslamiCrap.” And I replied, “Yeah, that’s right, ‘Islam means peace,’ the Muslim Batman, IslamiCrap.” And he responded, “How about Islami$#!+?” and I said, “No, IslamiCrap.” To which he responded, “How about IslamiDooDoo?” And I held my ground, “No, IslamiCrap,” saying it rolls off the tongue better. Perfectly silly, fun. Too bad it was left out.

Another thing you don’t see in the aired segment is Aasif conducting part of the interview in his superhero suit, which you see at the end of the aired segment. During that part of the sit-down interview, he asked me what I thought about him and his suit and, echoing Howard Roark’s response to a similar question from Ellsworth Toohey in The Fountainhead, I said, “I don’t.” The premise of that part of the segment, the producer told me on set, was that Aasif wanted to be a superhero and I, by ruling out the possibility of a Muslim superhero, was ruining his chances. So we had a back-and-forth during which I said that, if he was willing to go after Jihadists, then that was fine with me, and he agreed to do so. Fairly funny stuff, not as good as some of the other omitted material.

Perhaps the funniest bit that was omitted from the aired segment was Aasif and I, supposedly traveling to my “psteudio” in a car. The premise was that, because of the nature of my work, I would take precautions with respect to who could come to my studio and I would not let visitors learn its location. So, like Batman did in the 1960′s TV show, we put a blindfold on Aasif. The difference being that here, Aasif was actually doing the driving, while blindfolded, getting directions from me, sitting in the passenger seat next to him.

To their credit, the editors did not take advantage of two instances where I misspoke. In one instance, when speaking about the English Batman, I mentioned London and England interchangeably, as if both were cities. In another, I was referring to Pigman’s super strength and I said, as a throwaway, that he’s as strong as 40 men, or 20 jihadists, when I meant the converse (i.e., I meant jihadists were weaker than the average man, not stronger). But in any event, that could have worked to Pigman’s benefit, to make him seem even tougher.

One final thing that shows how they really tried to make me look bad, down to the last detail: they gave Aasif both our rations of pre-camera make-up. :)

Despite my experience, I want to give kudos to “The Daily Show” for having the nerve to showcase Pigman, even if only to make fun of him and me for a couple minutes.

We Avenged Pearl Harbor...

2011-12-07T17:27:00.000-05:00

Anti-Capitalist in Chief

2011-12-07T12:48:00.005-05:00

Obama says Capitalism doesn't work. I say he doesn't work.

Anti-Semite in Chief

2011-12-06T17:30:00.010-05:00

There's been a clear pattern of Obama's anti-semitism and he just confirmed it once again when his administration expressed "full confidence" in the anti-semitic ambassador to Belgium who said that the Israeli-"palestinian" conflict was one reason for anti-semitism that stretches back thousands of years. The White House gave him their support after he expressed his regret (to it causing an uproar). The ambassador said that he strongly condemns anti-semitism in all its forms. If he truly did, he would never have said what he said. If you think it's too much to call Obama "Anti-Semite in Chief", ask yourself if you think the ambassador would have Obama's "full confidence" if he said something similar about the Muslim world?

Guilty Until Proven Muslim

2011-12-05T21:00:00.003-05:00

Islam's position on non-Muslims, from THE INFIDEL print companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad

"My name is Bosch and I'm a recovering Muslim."

2011-12-05T12:35:00.000-05:00

That was the opening line of a piece I just wrote for Front Page Magazine called "Non-Muslim Muslims and the Jihad Against the West."

I did a follow up about it on the podcast "Don't Let it Go....Unheard" last night. The segment starts at 31 minutes in and lasts for about a half hour.

And I will also appear on The Jamie Glazov Show tomorrow night, Tues. Dec. 6 at 8-9pm Pacific time. Try to listen in live.

The Indispensable Robert Spencer

2011-12-03T02:19:00.005-05:00

I can't imagine where we'd be without the work of Robert Spencer. I think he's the most consistent, articulate truth teller about Islam in the world, and the daily ideological battle he wages at Jihad Watch has helped arm countless individuals among us with the knowledge we need in order to join the fight we've all been forced into by the enemy.

Two weeks ago I had the honor of debating on Robert's side in a panel on Islam vs "Islamism".

Giving The Enemy Cover

2011-12-02T09:47:00.001-05:00

Here's an excerpt from a piece I just wrote for FrontPage Magazine, Non-Muslim Muslims & the Jihad Against the West

My name is Bosch and I’m a recovering Muslim.

That is, if Muslims don’t kill me for leaving Islam, which it requires them to do. That’s just one of the reasons I’ve been writing and drawing against Islam and its Jihad for a number of years now. But fortunately for us, Islam hasn’t been able to make every Muslim its slave, just as Nazism wasn’t able to turn every German into a Nazi. So there is Islam and there are Muslims. Muslims who take Islam seriously are at war with us and Muslims who don’t aren’t.

But that doesn’t mean we should consider these reluctant Muslims allies against Jihad. I’ve been around Muslims my entire life and most of them truly don’t care about Islam. The problem I have with many of these essentially non-Muslim Muslims, especially in the middle of this war being waged on us by their more consistent co-religionists, is that they give the enemy cover. They force us to play a game of Muslim Roulette since we can’t tell which Muslim is going to blow himself up until he does. And their indifference about the evil being committed in the name of their religion is a big reason why their reputation is where it is.

So while I understand that most Muslims are not at war with us, they’ve proven in their silence and inaction against jihad that they’re not on our side either, and there’s nothing we can say or do to change that. We just have to finally accept it and stop expecting them to come around, while doing our best to kill those who are trying to kill us.

Read more....

Mitt 2 Face Mitt

2011-12-01T01:22:00.002-05:00

"Mitt vs. Mitt" & "Mittstant Replay"

Islam vs "Islamism" panel discussion

2011-11-30T01:01:00.000-05:00

I had the great honor of joining, late in the game, a panel discussion about Islam at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend. At the start of the conference, I was really looking forward to attend the debate panel between Robert Spencer & Andrew C. McCarthy on whether the problem we face is Islam or "Islamism". It would be a continuation of an online debate they've been having (here & here). Then a few hours before their debate, I was asked by the moderator if I'd like to take part in it, following the addition of another panelist, Baroness Caroline Cox. I happily agreed and then went and quickly prepared some notes to make sure I got the points I wanted to get across. This being only the second time I've spoken in front of an audience, along with the short time I had to prepare for it, I think I did as good as I could. Let me know what you think.

Here's the Q & A

Whatever Doesn't Kill You....

2011-11-29T23:33:00.000-05:00

Coming Soon

In the meantime, check out THE INFIDEL #1

Newt Speak

2011-11-29T20:28:00.001-05:00

Just heard Mark Steyn mention a blog post from Pundit & Pundette that's critical of Newt Gingrich and which hits on his "portentous language". From the piece: (Try it at home. It's mostly in the adverbs. Instead of saying, "Gee, Aunt Martha, this new pumpkin pie tastes delicious," spice it up with a few of Newt's favorite modifiers and your simple compliment will take on a grand and weighty significance: "This dramatically reconfigured, deeply compelling pumpkin pie tastes extraordinarily delicious.")

Use of the term "Radical Nazism" leads to a search for "Moderate Nazis"

2011-11-28T12:35:00.005-05:00

I took part in a panel discussion on Islam at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend. In my presentation I observed that using terms such as "Radical Nazism" during WW2 would have led us to try to find "Moderate Nazis" and the audience reacted to that very generously. It was a great honor being among panelists such as Robert Spencer & Andrew C. McCarthy, discussing such an important issue. The videos are posted at Jihad Watch.

Nihilist in Chief

2011-11-28T01:57:00.000-05:00

A glimpse of the analysis in Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s forthcoming book, The DIM Hypothesis.

At the 2010 Objectivist conference/OCON, Dr. Leonard Peikoff was presenting material from his forthcoming book, The DIM Hypothesis, in which he analyzes Western culture and history from the perspective of the epistemological process of integration. Peikoff, in an answer to a question about Barack Obama at his talk, said that Obama was not a socialist as many have concluded, because, as he put it, socialists or communists are examples of what he calls “misintegration,” or integration by non-rational means. Obama, Peikoff thinks, is anti-ideological, and as such has no long-range guiding values or theory of society. He does not integrate his thoughts and actions by any means, valid or invalid. Rather, Peikoff describes Obama as an almost-but-not-yet-fully consistent egalitarian nihilist, and thus a manifestation of the same trend which Peikoff calls D2, i.e., the form of Kantianism that gave us non-objective art, quantum mechanics, and progressive education. Because I am no expert on philosophy, for more on Peikoff’s views, I refer you to his forthcoming book.

My graphic is an alternative take on an earlier one I did after I heard Dr. Peikoff's analysis.

Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam Islam....

2011-11-27T19:02:00.001-05:00

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

As William Howland, the hero of my first graphic novel, Table for One, responds when asked if we live in a gray world:

"We do live in a gray world...which is why I have to see it in black and white."

How Many Muslims Celebrated 9/11?

2011-11-22T02:21:00.000-05:00

Too Many

Playing Name Games During Wartime

2011-11-21T19:38:00.006-05:00

"I am convinced, based on the evidence I’ve seen, that there is nothing that rises to the level of an ideology that is held by those self-labeled Muslims who do not wish to destroy us and our way of life."

That's the opening of an excellent post about the debate we're still having on what ought to be the correct names for the enemy and his ideology. It's titled "Islam By Any Other Name..."

Here's my graphic on this name game from THE INFIDEL companion PROPIGANDA: Drawing the Line Against Jihad .

"Islamophobia"? ISLAMOPHILIA

2011-11-16T21:54:00.003-05:00

"Islamophobia" was concocted by the enemy to shut down any and All criticism about Islam. I call it islamophoNia. Our Problem is Islamophilia - uncritical admiration of Islam, (no knowledge of Islam required).

"The Shadow Knows"

PIGMAN: "Peace" Be Upon Them

2011-11-16T16:37:00.003-05:00

Sowdi Eyes

2011-11-16T14:12:00.001-05:00

Saudi Arabia’s "Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice" (snort) says that Women Must Cover Provocative Eyes.

In a pig's eye, says this Sowdi

America's Last Shovel-Ready Job

2011-11-15T20:25:00.001-05:00

Here's a collaborative piece. Thanks to Ari Armstrong for the idea & thanks to Amy Peikoff for the title. And thanks to Obama for continuing to provide "inspiration" these last 3 years. Just one more to go...

Hate Speech? Frank Speech

2011-11-15T20:06:00.003-05:00

frank: marked by free, forthright and sincere expression ; unmistakably evident ; straightforward

Here were my earlier thoughts on the reaction to Frank Miller's piece against the "occupiers"

Dole, McCain....

2011-11-15T18:26:00.002-05:00

Is Smart Money Leading GOP Off Cliff Again?

Obama: I Want You To Sacrifice

2011-11-15T14:40:00.000-05:00

Check out The 5 Biggest Sacrifices he wants us to make "Right Away"

Earth Certificate

2011-11-15T14:02:00.001-05:00

Obama is in Hawai and says "Here in Asia..." and so I repost my older cartoon about where I think he was truly born....

Here's what I wrote then, August, 2010:

It’s not only “birthers” who bring up Barack Hussein Obama’s birth certificate these days, Obama himself did so yesterday, in order to lump in the 24% of Americans who think Obama is a Muslim with the “birthers” movement, in what I think could be the first labeling of the “faithers” movement. It was in answer to a question by Brian Williams of NBC “News” yesterday, about Americans’ confusion regarding Obama’s faith. The Drudge Report thought Obama’s strange comment, quoted in my graphic, was worth placing atop his page yesterday.

And so given that Barack Obama has referred to himself as a citizen of the world, given that he’s made it clear that he’s a one worlder and an environmentalist, and since it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Barack Hussein Obama was in fact born on earth, then here’s my answer to his problems.

Frank Miller is Will Kane

2011-11-14T19:13:00.008-05:00

In the film, High Noon, the bad guy was named Frank Miller and the good guy was named Will Kane. In real life, Frank Miller's the good guy taking on real life bad guys through his work as a cartoonist. He's taken on Jihad with HOLY TERROR and he just wrote a piece against the "occupiers" called ANARCHY that has made leftists crazier than usual. To Americans who are sick and tired of the enemy and his leftist enablers, show some support for a man who's essentially standing alone as Will Kane did in High Noon.

Occupation Ends 1/20/2013

2011-11-14T03:08:00.004-05:00

Occupier in Chief & The barOccupy Movement

PIGMAN AKBAR

2011-11-14T02:01:00.000-05:00

Without You there is no US

2011-11-11T12:57:00.001-05:00

the barOccupy movement

2011-11-11T04:49:00.002-05:00

The barOccupier in chief OWnS it.

Useful Infidel Ron Paul & "Friends"

2011-11-06T17:30:00.007-05:00

"When asked today what he would do to deter Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions, Ron Paul said "maybe offering friendship to them." Ron Paul speaks of offering American friendship to the greatest state sponsor of terrorism on earth who has American blood on its hands and who wants to wipe Israel off the map. And its "theme song" is "DEATH TO AMERICA!" This is why I call Ron Paul "The Jihadist's Candidate"