This Syrian cartoonist (and former friend and advocate of Bashshar until the latter stopped seeing him), `Ali Farzat has won many Western awards and accolades. He will win more: Western foundations and institutes will not care that he vomits daily insults and offenses against all `Alawites and all Shi`ites. If Farzat made one insults against Jews, he would be scorned in all international media. But his bigotry and hate here are not relevant.