IT IS hard to know where to start regarding the many offences contained in today's cartoon by Mr Broelman (SHN, January 9).
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The cartoonist draws under the banner 'death cult', the description used by the Prime Minister (also drawn in the cartoon) for the muslim extremist group who go by the name of Islamic State (IS).
Yet your cartoonist sees a different threat, just as menacing and evil: he draws a group of people who contest climate change alarmism. Really?
In the same week that Islamic extremists storm a newsroom in Paris and murder 15 journalists, Mr Broelman's cartoon draws a moral equivalence between this barbarism and climate protesters and it gets published.
Broelman's twisted logic would be laughable if it wasn't so thoroughly worrisome; he like too many others, lack a profound sense of the evil that is now challenging the way we live and will not rest until it brings down Western civilisation.
Cartoons like this not only miss the target but risk engendering lax attitudes in an increasingly dangerous world.
If you don't agree with any of this, it might be easier to dismiss this transcendentally awful drawing on the basis it has failed the first and simple test of any cartoon - it just isn't funny.
A fail for Mr Broelman.
Dallas McInerney
Bowral