http://www.newsweek.com/ignored-and-unreported-muslim-cartoonists-are-poking-fun-isis-332040
Recently, an attack on a Muhammad cartoon contest held in Garland, Texas, was foiled by local police, leaving two gunmen dead.
The event was organized by Pamela Geller, a self-appointed “expert” on Islamic terrorism and jihad, who makes a lucrative living pandering Islamophobic clichés that many commentators have analogized to hate speech.
While a number of Geller’s trenchant discourses on Islam have been taken up by writers, one of her statements declaring that Judeo-Christian culture is superior to Islam because “Islam does not allow humor” appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
Over the past year, cartoonists across the Middle East have critiqued ISIS with equal amounts of ferocity and fearlessness. Besides the cartoon arts, plenty of videos satirizing ISIS also have been produced. Most frequently, cartoonists in the Muslim world berate what they see as ISIS’s perversion of Islam and its destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq.
Muslim cartoonists also have expressed outrage over ISIS’s recent ransacking of the Mosul Museum and its bulldozing of ancient sites, most especially the Assyrian city of Nimrud. While ISIS members has been keen to make videos of their “iconoclastic performances” go viral for a target Euro-American viewership, most often the antiquities that fall into their hands are sold on the black market and even eBay, thus providing them with much needed monies to fund their operations.