No ground zero mosque
This picture is a cartoon. On the left in the foreground, we can observe a plump middle-age american man. He has his hands on his hips and wears a white T-shirt on which is printed an american flag and a sentence which displays his loyalty towards America . A lapel pin on which we can read « Palin 2012 » is sticked to his t-shirt. The cartoonist drew the man with a grumpy face in order to catch our attention on the fact that he is opposed to the project of the construction of a mosque. Indeed, we can supposed that he wrote the message « No Ground zero mosque » on the large banner behind him because he carries on his right hand a paintbrush and a can of paint in the other hand. On the left, a chubby woman is hammering the banner to two posts to keep the placard upright. We can suppose that she is her wife because they seem to be the same age and she wears a pants on which a large american flag is printed.
The man is speaking in an informal english and says that he can’t accept muslims who don’t respect the America’s liberty to dishonor a sacred place as Ground zero. It was the place where the Twin Tower were standing before the 11 September disaster and is become since a reverence place. What the author wants to criticise is this part of the American population not much educated which considers itself as a defender of the nation. The construction of his sentence is not correct and he does not pronounce the words correctly. His lapel pin shows us that he encourages a possible candidacy of Sarah Palin for the presidential elections in 2012. Sarah Palin is member of the populist Tea Party whose a part is conservative and against Islam. So the man wants to protect a sacred place against muslims who are to him freedom defacers. But both characters are violating America and its Constitution because we can observe that they wrote their message on the American constitution which begins by « We the people » and whose values are toleration and the living together.
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