I came across this interesting discussion on Plastic about an apparently anti-Islamic episode of the B.C. comic strip. I don’t have much time for the argument at hand, mostly because I don’t care, but I was appalled that the supposedly intelligent Plastic readership thought that a crescent moon on an outhouse door was anti-Islamic. Hello? Has anyone _used_ an outhouse? The crescent moon is a very traditional symbol on the door, and was (is) generally cut into the door to allow light into the outhouse. Don’t believe me?

Google Images search on “outhouse”

Note the overwhelming numbers of moons and suns cut into the doors.

Yeesh.

Posted on 23 November 2003