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If you go to my website [www.bendib.com], you’ll see that my slogan is “The Pen is Funnier than the Sword”—which I really believe. I’m committed to non-violent change.

— Khalil Bendib

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The common denominator between all my cartoons is rebellion against blind conformity.

Muslims are stuck between a rock and a hard place: foreigners invading their lands on the one hand and the homegrown menace of Islamic extremists on the other. It’s a catastrophe.

Because of my ethnic background, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is a huge issue for me—it hits me very hard on many different levels.

What I liked so much was their freedom from the constraint on time. When I went back to Morocco it occurred to me that [in the United States] we don’t have this wonderful calm. They are daydreaming, what we would call in the west, ‘wasting time.’

my slogan is “The Pen is Funnier than the Sword”—which I really believe. I’m committed to non-violent change.

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