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In an interview a month ago on FrontPage, cartoonist and FrontPage contributing artist Bosch Fawstin observed that "comics have been as truthless and as gutless as any corner of pop culture about Islam and Jihad since 9/11." After dismissing several comic books that promoted appeasement toward the threat of global jihad, Fawstin, whose own work fearlessly confronts that threat, concluded with a contrasting example:
And finally, there's Frank Miller's Holy Terror, originally a Batman vs. al Qaeda story, which appears to take on the enemy in a more direct way than we've seen in comics so far, outside of my own work. I'm curious to see what kind of effect Miller's book will have, if it will inspire more work that takes on this enemy.
Released two weeks after that interview, Miller's 120-page graphic novel Holy Terror so far seems to have prompted more indignation than inspiration. The English-language website The National, for example, based in the United Arab Emirates, reports that some critics are denouncing the book as "Islamophobic" – and then proceeds to provide those critics with a forum in which to slam Holy Terror unchallenged by an opposing point of view.