May 20: "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!"

What a brilliant idea!! lmao.
I'm gonna be busy....Cartoon day, Boobquake...

I can’t believe that militant Muslims have won the day again. No wonder they think that the infidel West is weak and feeble. It often is. And the more the West, or the UK and US, give in to these Muslims, the more they will demand. The more they will think they can achieve.

This time it is the cartoon South Park that has been threatened by ‘militant’ Muslims. (Are all Muslims militant? It sometimes seems that way.) South Park dared to feature Mohammed. It is forbidden in Islam to portray Mohammed in any way. That’s right. It is forbidden in Islam. Not in America. Not in Christianity. Not for infidels to portray him. So why should non-Muslims bow down to these naked threats from Muslims? Because these people usually get what they want. This is just one more example of Muslims making non-Muslims abide by the strict and stupid strictures of that mass death-cult, Islam.

Isn’t South Park meant to be a hip and anti-establishment show? Maybe it’s hip. Maybe it’s anti-establishment. But it’s a soft sucker for a Muslim threat. Throw the Bible down the toilet and you get awards from an arty organisation. Accidentally stand on the Koran and there’s riot in Timbuktu and suicide bombings in Karachi.

It is still not clear if the programme’s makers, Mr Stone and Mr Parker, were responsible for all the bleeps and the blackouts. It may have all been done on the orders of the network, Comedy Central, which did indeed place additional audio bleeps throughout the sacrilegious episode.

However, it may have been a clever trick, on South Park creators’ part, not to cancel the whole episode completely. Instead they bleeped and blocked out the offending parts and flashed the word ‘CENSORED’. This at least shows the audience what has happened to their programme. It also shows the fans that South Park has in fact been threatened by Muslim thugs. So perhaps this wasn’t an outright example of cowardice after all.

The Muslim group warned South Park’s creators that they could ‘face violence’ if they depicted Mohammed in any way. That Muslim group is called Revolution Muslim. They even had the sick audacity to write, on a website, that the South Park creators ‘will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh’. That is - dead. Another sacrificial lamb to the ever-thirsty Islam’s desire for infidel corpses. Van Gogh himself was murdered in 2004. His crime? To have made a film about how violent Islam is towards women. The Muslim killed Van Gogh, I assume, to prove to us all how non-violent Islam is. Muslims never seem to get the irony of their violent responses to accusations of Islamic violence. Irony, unlike Islam, is not really a medieval thing. (Backwards time travel is possible. Go to Islamic Pakistan and see.)

More specifically, this episode was to show Mohammed – I will not say ‘the Prophet’! – wearing a bear costume. And why not? Just the other day I saw a fairly funny add depicting the Buddha. Did any Buddhists riot or kill for this ‘offence’ – for this ‘insult’? Of course not. That may be because Buddhism is not an egg shell, like Islam, that can so easily be broken. It can take a few knocks. Just as many religions do. Remember The Life of Brian? That film was much loved, apparently, by many Christians.

With Islam everything is different. It is so weak, not strong, as a religion that even the slightest criticism, or ‘insult’ or ‘offence’, is seen as a fatal sacrilege. This is also because Islam is the most violent and irrational of religions. The rage and the riots do not show us the deepness of the faith, but Islam’s shallowness. There has never been an argumentative or philosophical tradition within Islam which could help Muslims cope with criticism. Fair enough, there have been various sects, schools of interpretation and whatnot. But no deep philosophical movement that has been allowed to question Islam itself. That’s partly why there are so many Muslims on this planet. Along with death for apostasy and the long history of Islamic imperialism, the closed Muslim mind also helps explain the fact that there are over a billion Muslims. That large number, though, is seen by many Muslims as the most definitive and clear proof of Islam’s truth and righteousness. It’s just a body count in the end.

"It is forbidden in Islam to portray Mohammed in any way. That’s right. It is forbidden in Islam. Not in America. Not in Christianity. Not for infidels to portray him. So why should non-Muslims bow down to these naked threats from Muslims?"
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Actually Paul, yes it is. Muslims "forbid" anyone to portray Mohammad. Welcome to Dar-al-Harb (the House of War)! Those with their mentality firmly in Dar-al-Islam (the House of Islam), regardless of where they park their arse, claim hegemony over everybody else. Shari'a rules everyone, everywhere, regardless of their religion/state of belief. That's what makes Islam so insufferable -- its unbelievable arrogance and a superiority complex that would make even Hussein blush.

"veiled threats"...

Picture this: One pregnant women to another: "How cute! That burka is the bomb!"

SNAP: May 20 will be my favorite HolyDay.

Picture this: A veiled hand grenade.

Picture this: A veiled CENSORED. There, that's it...

False modesty conceals the face of evil.

Someone mentioned the idea of an illustrated history of the subjugation text; how about a drawing of CENSORED roasting marshmallows on the torturer's chest-fire?

Would a drawing of CENSORED having sex with his 9-year old wife be considered illegal pornography, even if it is historically correct and a expression of a political opinion?

How is a person to properly object when the reality you object to is obscene?

let the mockery begin.

Here is my first picture of CENSORED:

CENSORED

I posted this yesterday on the "OIC/Human Rights thread.

This is soooo good: "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" - May 20!

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/23/its-on-everybody-draw-mohammed-day-set-for-may-20th/

So Great!

Why do the media always call a prophet, he is only a prophet to muslims, not Jews, Christains,Hindus etc.

I've already drawn my "motoon". It's a stick figure, but it will get the point across. Will post it on my blog on 5/20.

http://www.byzantineblog.com

Andrew | April 24, 2010 11:35 AM | Reply

Why do the media always call a prophet, he is only a prophet to muslims, not Jews, Christains,Hindus etc.

Good point. mohammed isn't any sort of a prophet to me, as a Christian. He didn't meet any of the standards of the Old Testament prophets, or any of the New Testament Apostles or any of the post-Church Saints.

Prophets, Christ, and the Saints, have one thing in common: All performed Miracles or had Miracles attributed to them. The koran didn't claim any miracles for mo.

Here's a nice link to mahound cartoons from the Zombietime blog (Zombie published photo reports at Pajamas Media)...

By the way, I suppose this page is the likely reason why his page is currently blocked in Erdoganistan/Anatolian Arabia.

Actually, this is a good SERIOUS initiative if executed well.

There could be gatherings of people opposed to Islamic supremacism and everyone draws Mohammed and the best 10 entries get prizes ! Maybe books by Islamorealists like Robert Spencer or Serge Trifkovic or someone like that.

Actually reminds of the salt march by Gandhi against the British rule in India.

Where do we send our cartoons and will they be shown?
I want mine out there. Lets flood the pool of potential targets.

Can anyone provide a website or email to send these?
Can we publish them on the SIOA website?
Plus I suggest we all email them to CAIR.

Can we combine the two events?

"Veil" bikini tops being dropped to reveal boobs with the name CENSORED written on them.

TWO-TWO, two meanings in ONE!

or, maybe a "burka bra" with only the eyes showing?

This is gonna be fun!!!

This kind of humor just slays me...

Hmmm - I wonder if Molly has contracted for permanent, 24-hour bodyguard services, or inquired into the Witness Protection Program?? But hat's off to her - great idea....

Let's hope it contributes to CAIR's wish (in the wake of their Miami bus ad defeat) that it contributes to a widespread increase in understanding of Islam.

"Draw Muhammad Day" is a great idea. Visual artists and cartoonists express themselves through visual media and they should not have to be prohibited, or inhibited, from depicting a religious-political figure, i.e., Muhammad, who has become important in our times. If Muslims don't want to depict Muhammad they don't have to, and they don't have to look at depictions.

link for the 1977 siege:

http://middleeast.about.com/od/religionsectarianism/f/me090310a.htm

"Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any religious figure "

I'm not an artist or cartoonist myself, but I have a good idea for a submission for this event:

Depict all of the religious figures -- the Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Moses, YHWH (you know, a man with a white beard in the sky), Zoroaster, perhaps also a pagan or two (some voodoo goddess, a Celtic god, a Norse god, etc.), and last and least, Mohammed -- and have all of the religious figures but the last one standing together on one side, with Mohammed alone on the other side. The other religious figures would be shown smiling, laughing, having a good time, with a collective caption something along the lines of "Hell, we don't care if you depict us, even if you mock us -- water off a duck's back, take your best shot, you puny human cartoonists, ha ha ha!"

Meanwhile, the caption for Mohammed, standing off by himself with a malignant hunch sort of like a combination of the hunchback of Notre Dame and Shylock, muttering:

"I weel keel you...!"

The following ACII Mo was created by jhffmn for the same Hotair.com announcement. Can be sent to any posting site:

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I'm sure others can be made.

Ah, finally a way to put my old art school skills to good use. An image -- and a plan -- are starting to form.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't even remember the 1977 siege. Totally clueless in the '70s (and 60s, 80s, and 90s for that matter) about all things Muslim. I don't have "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" because I hated it. "Hejira", of all things, was the last album of Joni's that I liked. Wonder if anyone has asked her about the "South Park" incident. She was interviewed in the LA Times the other day dissing Bob Dylan and everyone else within reach, so it would be interesting to hear which side she comes down on.

Give 'em hell in NYC tomorrow folks!

I don't recall the 1977 incident either, but then again I don't recall most of the 70's. Altho in defense of my memory I do remember Munich.

I was only enlightened about islam in 1993 when the WTC was bombed, then I started paying attention.

Image of Mohammed have been painted,drawn,carved for centuries; so what happened??

http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/

Here are some pictures that (for anyone clever with photoshop)can be made more....amusing...

http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/

Women will find a couple quite offensive.

Feel free to sue your nearest mosque.

Instead of just cartooning Mohammed, how about turning him over to commercial advertisers? Something along the following lines:

TV commercial: scene opens with an Arab-looking man, bearded and in full bedouin desert costume, standing beside a kitchen table.
He says: "Hi, my name is Mohammed. I'm sure a lot of you know me as the last and greatest of the prophets; I founded Islam over 1400 years ago. But that was then. Today I'm hear to tell you about Mo's Mocha [holds up a coffee can labelled "Mo's"] -- it's quite simply the best-tasting coffee on the market today."
He picks up a cup and takes a sip, and says: "Ah! Try Mo's Mocha, amd you'll never buy another brand. That's a prophecy you can count on!"

alternative ending:
"... never buy another brand. Or else! [and slashes through the air with a scimitar] Ha-ha, all kidding aside, folks, you'll like it!"

My idea for a mo toon. picture a pig's head on a body. turban on head. right hand holding sword. Left hand holding the right hand of a little girl. Little girl holds little doll in left hand. Now we need a place to upload pictures.

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The Muslims are iconoclasts, thinking they can impose their iconoclast standards on the world. But Islam belongs to everybody and can be used in every non-violent way by anybody in a free world. Just as all the other faiths belong to everybody.

What can the Muslims do in return, that is not violent or threathening with violence? Now that they are no longer all-powerful or blissfully unknown to outsiders?

They can start "draw-Jesus-Buddha-Krishna-Moses-Darwin-etc-days" to their heart's content, but drawing these in whatever way people want is already free. It's just plain unreasonable for Muslims to claim that Mohammed be the exception!

Good but you have to prepare. Think about their reactions.

I'm in!!!

Remember all -

Muhammad was a very unattractive, ugly man. Vanity is the reason he forbade his depiction.

Muhammad suffered from acromegaly, which causes (among other symptoms) excessive hormonal growth and distorts bone and facial growth.

You can google the condition to get a better idea of how it might have affected muhammad's appearance.

The acronym is appropriate but a wee bit inaccurate: I would fix it with this one:

C itizens
A gainst
C rybabies
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P erpetually
O utraged
O ffended
P eople

But hey, that's just me.

So, to where do we send our entries?

Great idea and great response by JW posters.
Now all we need is an address to send our cartoons there.

How will the muslims in USA react?
How will muslim obama react - if this idea gets the right momentum.

Update:

It looks like Molly Norris is now distancing herself from the Draw Muhammad Day idea. She's linked to others who are accepting drawings (see "Freshest Thing" at her site). She's keeping up her original cartoon dedicated to the South Park artists.

She writes:
"I am NOT involved in "Everybody Draw Mohammd Day!"
I made a cartoon that went viral and I am not going with it.
Many other folks have used my cartoon to start sites, etc.
Please go to them as I am a private person who draws stuff...[...]"

Hey, I've got a great idea for a cartoon if someone wants to draw one. I can't draw, so I couldn't do it justice.

Email me if you might be interested in drawing it:

djmartyr@gmail.com

Where can I upload my drawing?

The gal that started this has bowed out.
Cowardice? Self preservation?
Cowardice...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/04/creators-of-everybody-draw-muhammad-day-abandon-effort-after-it-becomes-controversial.html

On Friday, Norris told a radio talk show host in Seattle that she came up with the idea because "as a cartoonist, I just felt so much passion about what had happened..." noting that "it's a cartoonist's job to be non-PC."

That passion, it appears, has lessened. And fast.

Her stark website today reads: ""I am NOT involved in "Everybody Draw Mohammad [sic] Day!"

Sigh....

The reason Mohamed didn't want any depictions of him is that he had a disease that distorted his face to grotesque proportions. Apparently his ego couldn't cope with his followers knowing that, so he made it a crime to make pictures of him. If only Muslims knew the truth about their religion. Of course, questioning Islam was made a crime too.

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is CANCELLED!
It has been changed to Everybody Draw Al Gore Day (courtesy of ihatethemedia.com).
Enough drawings have been made to get the human/constitutional rights point across.
At this point this thing may only offend non-radical Muslims.
Write to Comedy Central instead and tell them what wuss's they are. Their censorship has created a slippery slope toward the Artist's Fear.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Molly Norris
http://www.mollynorris.com/freshestthing.html

http://muhammadgangbang.com is holding a contest for the best muhammad drawing.

This early, original article is WRONG.
There is no Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor.
That was a made up group that I wrote into my cartoon.
My fictional cartoon went viral and was taken seriously.
I never HAD a place to send images to!
I never made a facebook page for it, a stranger did.
As soon as this went viral I condemned the activity as it only hurts people who were not responsible for this threat to freedom of expression. My one-off cartoon is NOT a good long term plan.
Please do something positive instead.
Thanks! Dang!
Molly
http://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/everybody-draw-mohammad-day

this is to in reply to Mary's post April 27, 2010 5:32 PM:
I dont understand wat pleasure it gives u in insulting the muslims and their prophet. Why would u like to make a fun of something which is considered sacred for one third of the worlds popuolation. This act of urs wont harm the muslims in any way it will only break the worls apart into two groups the muslims and the non muslims and if thats wat u want ur most welcome. Although u have disrespected my religion and my prophet Muhammad SAW .i wont even abuse u..all ill do is pray for ur mercy and that u may come to the right track..because this is wat islam teaches us. Islam does not teach insulting other faiths and their feelings..islam doesnt teach retaliating to such foolish acats by death threats and abuses. Islam Teaches us to be at peace with everyone. And all the propaganda u r doing against islam wont change the true meaning of islam. No matter wat u do u cant shatter the faith of muslims.and please tell me wat problem u have with islam and muslims i would luv to answer u.
may God have Mercy on u!

Some wag has declared May 20, 2010 as "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." Count me in on that too. I'm all for insulting Islam all the time. Yes, I'm so out of shape I can't draw breath, and I'm so dense at times I can't draw a conclusion; but I can draw a picture of Mohammed with my eyes closed. Here's a sample of how clever I am, me an artiste....
Painem - Djancoek

WOW! a nice way to draw an EVEN greater division between populations of the world, well done. I can't believe how shallow and unbelievably disrespectful this is! I think it's time we treat each others beliefs with RESPECT! And this is certainly NOT the way to do it!!

Here's my contribution to Draw Mohammed Day. Great idea!

http://newatheism.blogspot.com/2010/05/draw-mohammed-day.html

this is very disrespectful! this should be removed! you should respect other peoples belifes!!!!!

In the Hebrew scriptures the Jewish name of God is considered sacred and, out of deep respect for the name, Jews do not say the name of God and do not erase it if it is written.

Perhaps we should have an annual "not say GOD day" the following FRIDAY after draw Mohammed day.

By the way, how can you draw Mohammad if there are no pictures of him in the world. I know he had a red beard (possibly an Alexander the Great left over?) as natural red beards in Arabic ethnics is nonexistant.

So here is my picture of Mohammed

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Any other days we should celebrate?

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*-@:{)> Happy Muhammad

Backup Versions of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-draw-muhammed-day-May-20th-back-up/124602334226418?v=wall

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammad-Day-May-20th-2010/120352401315688?v=wall#!/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammad-Day-May-20th-2010/120352401315688

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128219563856159

Why do you want to draw Mohamed?
What makes Muslims angry with the drawers that they draw him as a joke .Let me ask you if I draw the Christ in a comedy cartoon will you be happy?I think no. I think that you don't know that Islam say any Muslim must believe in Mohamed,Christ,Moses,Noah and every other prophet .Not just that Islam forbids harming or do any little bad thing to any one who is not Muslim and if you do that you are like the one who harms Mohamed our prophet himself . Also Islam says killing any person is as killing everybody in this world .Also what you say that Islam exists by terrorism is not true , Islam does better than what America does today. Islam says when you want to tell people about Islam ,you ask the permission of the king or the one how leads this country and tell him about Islam if he refuses Islam ask him to go inside his country to tell his people about Islam and if he refuses you tell him let us or we will fight you once ,twice and three times and after the third one you go and fight him because he forbids you to say what you believe in and because he forbids freedom of expression. And what happened in the south park Islam forbids it .And finally I'll tell you that Mohamed you don't like when he said to people "Be Muslims" many people fought him and he was injured and fired from his country and they fought him in his new country and when he came back to his country with 10000 soliders he didn't kill any not Muslim and told them you are safe to live to follow anyone you want to follow .That is Mohamed the greatest example to be tolerant with how hurts,fights or tries to kill you .

Muhakh2, we are not drawing Mohammed just for the hell of it. This is to teach Muslims that if they threaten an American cartoonist or artist then we will draw a thousand or ten-thousand or even a million disgusting images of Mohammed (pbuh) until you people learn to stop threatening us.

I can't access the main Draw Mohammed Day! group anymore, nor another one I had been contributing to.

I think Facebook closed them down. God damn dhimmis

I definitely support Everybody-Draw-Muhammad-Day wholeheartedly. No one should be required to respect anybody's beliefs. But I can't help but notice how incredibly discriminatory a lot of its supporters are.
I doubt that most Christians would feel it would be acceptable to intentionally offend them, they certainly have no problems offending others. If you want the right to offend others you must agree that others have the equal right to offend you.
Every Christian that wants Minarets banned, as they should be, should willingly accept a similar ban on church steeples and tall crosses. Every Christian that calls Islam violent must admit that millions have died in the forced spread of their religion. Every Jew that calls anti-Israel Muslims Terrorists has no right to do so without also acknowledging that Israel blatantly, illegally, stole most of its land. [http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x182/xineann/palestine46-2k.jpg]

All one needs to do is read the comments and hate mail on Atheist websites to see that Christians have no problems demanding respect and the supposed right to not be offended.

If you wish to offend Muslims and disrespect their belief system but won't tolerate disrespect of your beliefs then you aren't doing it from a morally superior position, You're doing it because they're different, you're just proving you're a bigot and are no better than any racists, sexists or other discriminators.

Remember, the loud, violent, militant Muslims are just as misinformed about Islam as creationists and Hannity viewers are about Christianity.

Islam is violent and dangerous, Just as Christianity was in the dark ages.
Once again the Atheists hold the moral higher ground...

@ Muhakh2

If any religion encourages violence against others or is so poorly written that it can be easily misinterpreted so that it appears to encourage violence against others, it is violent and dangerous.

Whippings and stonings are not only permitted but are often required under Sharia law. Women have been stoned to death for being rape victims. Therefore Islam is violent.

Any religion that discouraged free-thought, condemns non-believers, punishes victims, supports discrimination has world domination as one of its major tenets and will gladly issue death sentences on cartoonists is obviously dangerous.

I don't pick solely on Islam. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Scientologists, Mormons, etcetera are all deluded. They just have different delusions.

Claiming that Islam is peaceful because 99% of its followers are, clearly and intentionally overlooks that millions of Muslims are taught and believe otherwise. If you believe Islam is peaceful you were obviously taught by a moderate preacher and because that is what you were taught you don't understand how other Muslims come to the conclusions they have. Similarly, fundamentalist, Taliban-esque extremists believe what they were taught and don't understand how moderates could arrive at their opinions.

If a belief system is open to interpretation, and Islam, like most religions, certainly is, then one must conclude that either your god isn't intelligent enough to write or inspire someone to write an unambiguous guide book or that there are no gods. Either way you're wasting your life following the ancient myths of uneducated cave dwellers. Belief in any supernatural being whether it be Allah/Yahweh, Zenu or Santa Clause is still a phenomenal waste of our amazing brains.