Johnny Hart, “whose combined work on B.C. and Wizard of Id makes him the earth’s most syndicated comic author” (Time, 4/19/99), and whose past Jew-bashing and atheist-bashing in his comics have made him both friends and enemies in the past, seems to be at it again. Hart, if you didn’t know, is a very serious Xian. This time, it’s Islam that’s in his sights. Not that I’m any fan of Islam; it’s slightly below Xianity on my list of nasty religions of the world. But as always, it’s curious to see how aghast everyone can get at such things. Just one more indicator of just how much most theistic folk are in pretty bad faith, and don’t take their religion very seriously until they need an excuse for bullshit. Because if you belive the Xian dogma, you should be anti-Islam — maybe even more than anti-atheist.

But I digress. Any way, Johnny boy did an “Id” strip that featured crescent moons and the use of SLAM in a way that’s pretty suggestive of a slap against Islam. Here’s a piece on the whole thing (”Cartoon Raises a Stink“), and here’s the ‘toon in question:

Judge for yourself.