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Breitbart: “$10,000 Muhammad Art and Cartoon Contest to be Held at Site of ‘Stand With the Prophet’ Conference in Texas”

Feb 12, 2015 1:40 pm By Robert Spencer

drawmuhammadfinal700Eligibility:
Anyone is eligible to submit entries for consideration by AFDI’s panel of judges.
Submissions must be made by the artwork’s creator.
No third party submissions. No submissions by proxy.
No anonymous or pseudonymous submissions.
Artwork shall be original work of the entrant.
All art must be signed by the entrant.
AFDI will assume that all art entered for consideration does not infringe upon the copyright of a third party.
The artist shall assume all liability if an infringement claim is made.

Submit your entry(s) to MuhammadArtExpo@gmail.com

Agreement To Rules:
By participating, you agree to be unconditionally bound by AFDI’s rules, and you represent and warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements, and you agree to accept all decisions made by AFDI regarding this contest as final and binding.
AFDI reserves the right to cancel this contest at any time for whatever reason.

Liability:
Applicants are participating of their own free will, and AFDI will assume no liability for any and all negative experiences associated with an applicants participation in this contest.

How To Enter:
Entries will be accepted by e-mail only. (Include your e-mail address.) The file format for submission is .jpg
Winning artwork will be made into posters, so a minimum of 300 DPI and 3000 pixels (either horizontally or vertically) is necessary.
However, please reduce your file size to less than 3MB when submitting your art for consideration. (AFDI will contact you for a larger file size if your art is among the top submissions according to our judges.)
AFDI reserves the right to reproduce all submissions for promotion, exhibit, fund-raising, marketing and any other use associated with the daily operations of AFDI and its subsidiaries.

When To Enter:
You may enter now. The deadline for accepted entries is April 5th, 11:59 PM ET
You may submit as many pieces as you like.

AFDI reserves the right to use the winning piece for promotion, ads, poster sales, fund-raising, marketing and any other use associated with the daily operations of AFDI and its subsidiaries.

Top Prize: $10,000

Winners will be announced May 3rd, 2015, at The First Inaugural Muhammad Art Exhibit & Contest

Tickets:
$50: Standard Admission
$100: Premium Admission — Premium seating, autographed Pamela Geller book, photo opportunity
$250: VIP Admission — VIP seating, meet and greet cocktails with the event organizers and cartoonists; autographed copy of the winning cartoon

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“$10,000 Muhammad Art and Cartoon Contest to be Held at Site of ‘Stand With the Prophet’ Conference in Texas,” by Bob Price, Breitbart, February 12, 2015:

Pamela Geller is planning a “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas in the same location as a Muslim group held a “Stand with the Prophet” conference in January. The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest will be hosted by the Curtis Caldwell Center, which is owned and operated by the Garland Independent School District.

Geller’s event comes on the wake of the Islamic terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Following the attack, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) scheduled the “Stand with the Prophet” conference at the public school district’s conference center. Geller, the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), scheduled a protest outside the event that was attended by approximately 2,000 people.

During the Free Speech Rally in Garland, Geller spoke with Breitbart Texas about her reaction to the large and loud crowd of protesters. She said that Muslims are trying to impose restrictions on free speech like they are doing in Paris. “Thousands of Americans said ‘no way!’”

“The media can smear us and the President can stand with them,” Geller said. “We the people are not having it. If there is any proof of that, it’s today. We dwarfed them.”

“If the Western media ran the Danish cartoons back when this Islamic supremacist movement first started gaining steam, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo would be alive today,” Geller stated in response to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas. “That said, the European press ran the Hebdo cartoons in the wake of that jihad slaughter. But the American press would not. The beacon of freedom, the shining light on a hill, is running scared. Well, that’s not who we are. The elites do not represent the people.”

“Enough is enough,” she explained. “They’re just cartoons. We’re holding this exhibit and cartoon contest to show how insane the world has become — with people in the free world tiptoeing in terror around supremacist thugs who actually commit murder over cartoons. If we can’t stand up for the freedom of speech, we will lose it — and with it, free society.”

The art exhibit and contest will be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland on May 3rd. ”This was the site of a Muslim conference denouncing ‘Islamophobia’ — an obscene stand for them to take after the Charlie Hebdo massacre – and our massive Free Speech Rally outside that event,” Geller wrote in a press release obtained by Breitbart Texas.

The contest will take submissions online and the winner will be announced at the event in Garland. The winning cartoonist will receive a $10,000 prize. The exhibit will feature images of Islam’s prophet in both historical and contemporary settings. There will also be a series of speeches by internationally renowned free-speech advocates.

Geller explained that the art exhibit is the next logical step following AFDI’s Free Speech Rally in Garland. “This event will stand for free speech and show that Americans will not be cowed by violent Islamic intimidation,” she stated. “That is a crucial stand to take as Islamic assaults on the freedom of speech, our most fundamental freedom, are growing more insistent.”

“Of course, this event will require massive security,” she assured potential attendees. “But this exhibit has to be staged. If we don’t show the jihadis that they will not frighten us into silence, the jihad against freedom will only grow more virulent.”

An author and activist with passionate fans and detractors, Geller has been sounding the alarm about Muslim encroachment into Europe and America and the possible impact on American culture in the future. The Free Speech Rally Geller organized is one of many activities she has created to shine the light on radical Islam and the teachings of Imam’s in mosques in the United States. In June, 2010, Geller organized and led a group of approximately 5,000 protesters (Geller released this estimate) to march on the site of the site of the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque.” Eventually, plans for the mosque were cancelled.

Geller is also listed as an “Extremist” on the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) website. The SPLC says she is the “anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She’s relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-based denunciations of Islam.” The organization also lists AFDI as an anti-Muslim hate group.

AFDI ads from bus and subway campaign.

Late last year, Geller made headlines by running an anti-Islam advertising campaign on buses and subway stations in New York City. She said the campaign was designed to educate. It was designed to warn the public of the “problem with jihad” and Sharia Law. The ads also ran in San Francisco, where Geller drew fire from the Jewish Voice for Peace. The organization states that Geller and AFDI “have initiated Islamophobic ad campaigns in more than a dozen communities, from Boston to Seattle, Chicago to Miami. The pattern is simple—provide hateful anti-Muslim/anti-Arab ad copy to a public transportation agency, offer to make a modest ad buy, sue (or threaten to sue) the agency on First Amendment grounds if it refuses to run the ad (or expresses reservations about running it), and reap lots of free publicity from the ensuing media coverage of the controversy.”

More information about the event will be published at a later date on the AFDI Facebook page.


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  1. RonaldB says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    The funny thing is that free speech really doesn’t threaten Islam. If it did, the rate of Muslim apostasy in the Western countries, especially in Canada and the US, where it is still possible for apostates to dodge Muslims. Rather, Muslims in these countries band together in physical and intellectual ghettos to maintain their exclusivity.

    The concern with outlawing blasphemy is simply Muslims being Muslims, that it, anal-retentive, hysterical, impulsive, violent control freaks. It is one more assertion over dhimmitude.

    • voegelinian says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 5:09 pm

      “Muslims in these countries band together in physical and intellectual ghettos to maintain their exclusivity.”

      And the Muslims who don’t, and appear to be assimilated into Western mores, nevertheless continue to defend Islam whenever challenged on it (or whenever they perceive Islam is being challenged, or “attacked”).

    • M S case says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 6:59 pm

      “outlaw blasphemy” Why not outlaw Islam itself IT’S NOT A RELIGION
      but you will never get law makers to see that.

  2. john spielman says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    I have an idea for a poster on muhammed pbuh*- a photo of a cesspool, or open latrine ect, with the caption,” where’s muhammed” (like where ‘s Waldo) -feel free to use this idea
    PBUH* PEREPETUAL BANISHMENT UNTO HELL!

  3. Champ says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    Here’s a good cartoon …

    http://iranpoliticsclub.net/cartoons/muhammad-aisha/images/Prophet%20Muhammad%20&%20Aisha%20versus%20Mary%20&%20Jesus%20cartoon.jpg

    Wow how on earth did a pedophile become a “prophet”? …you’re perverted, too, if mo’s YOUR prophet.

    • cs says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 3:58 pm

      Freaky but very telling, we can see the consequences, when we compare both civilizations.

  4. Bob Earl says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Will there be BBQ and Koran burning booths?

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    Pamela Geller is planning a “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas in the same location as a Muslim group held a “Stand with the Prophet” conference in January.

    HA!

  6. vlparker says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    Can I write a song instead? I have a little musical ability but I no drawing talent at all. i can mess up stick people.

  7. voegelinian says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 5:14 pm

    One suspects that even an abstract painting designated as a “painting of (Prophet) Muhammad” would be blasphemy in the eyes of the Ulema who determine and/or maintain what is Islamic. If so, one could imagine a Dadaist event where a “white on white” (or “black on black”) painting — i.e., a canvas painted solid white with no other colors — simply labelled “The Prophet Muhammad (Paint Be Upon Him)” would arouse the murderous ire of all Muslims (including those who seem modern & moderate who, as such, would feign a calmer reception).

    • Angemon says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 7:54 pm

      voegelinian posted:

      “One suspects that even an abstract painting designated as a “painting of (Prophet) Muhammad” would be blasphemy in the eyes of the Ulema who determine and/or maintain what is Islamic.”

      “One suspects”, eh? I say that if the aforementioned one who suspects such a thing stopped attacking and deriding counter-jihadis and instead dedicated that time to studying islamic orthodoxy, he’d have a certainty rather than a suspicion.

      He’d also know that the ulema is not an universally accepted authority because, if for no other reason, there’s not a central governing body in the islamic “religion”.

      • voegelinian says

        Feb 13, 2015 at 4:31 am

        The ulema are plural; many bodies, one in each and every Islamically designated Muslim region (more or less conforming to the lines drawn by Western Colonialism and the post-Colonialist order). Despite the “diversity” they evince, and despite the ostensible confusion of the incessantly centrifugal internecine jungle of Islamic societies and fuqaha, they nevertheless are the heart of what Islam is and how it is maintained. Leave it to a Softy to conclude from the superficial “diversity” that there is no Islam we can pin down.

        • Angemon says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 10:57 am

          voegelinian posted:

          “The ulema are plural; many bodies, one in each and every Islamically designated Muslim region (more or less conforming to the lines drawn by Western Colonialism and the post-Colonialist order). Despite the “diversity” they evince, and despite the ostensible confusion of the incessantly centrifugal internecine jungle of Islamic societies and fuqaha, they nevertheless are the heart of what Islam is and how it is maintained.”

          That does nothing to counter what I said – the ulema is not an universally accepted authority.

          “Leave it to a Softy to conclude from the superficial “diversity” that there is no Islam we can pin down.”

          Strawman – you’re the one bringing up “diversity”, not me. How about you, for once, stay on topic and reply to what I actually say? It would be easier for you, since you wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of inventing something and claim I said so.

          In any case, I though you weren’t reading my posts anymore. That’s what you said not so long ago:

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/saudi-king-abdullah-is-dead/comment-page-1#comment-1185295

          “voegelinian says

          January 23, 2015 at 6:35 pm

          I hope Angemon isn’t under the impression that I bother to read his posts anymore…“

    • Bezelel says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 9:13 pm

      White on white is known as The Polar Bear In A Snowstorm. One black dot is permitted for the nose.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 3:25 pm

      Voegelinian wrote:

      One suspects that even an abstract painting designated as a “painting of (Prophet) Muhammad” would be blasphemy in the eyes of the Ulema…
      ……………………..

      You aren’t wrong, Voeg. Cartoonist Molly Norris never drew Muhammed at all—her cartoon was of a random grouping of common objects like purses and coffee pots, with a caption asking if any of the sketches were pictures of Muhammed.

      The Muslim rage over this was instantaneous from “ordinary” Muslims. The death threats over this were so intense that the FBI told her they could not protect her, and she had to change her name and go into hiding.

      And South Park never showed Muhammed, either—it was a cartoon of someone in a bear suit. None of the Danish Jyllands-Posten cartoons were specifically of the “Prophet”, either.

      Just the concept of depicting Muhammed is enough for Muslim rage and threats and worse.

  8. sound awake says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    lotsa concealed carry pistol and open carry rifle people in texas…dont try anything followers of allah

  9. DaveGinOly says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    It’s going to be difficult to beat the “call for entries” poster! It’s terrific!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 3:40 pm

      I agree, Dave. The poster is by artist Big Fur Hat, and was inspired by Norman Rockwell’s famous triple self portrait:

      http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTclJgjPZ3sMt7uZLf0dI2LCHurmSjuAUrGq61Yk_gM3hfyiyPeFyO2Eg

  10. jay says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    The example art is perfect as it is. I might submit something, I’m not sure if my art is good enough to risk my life over, but hey.

  11. Ahmed says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 11:02 pm

    followers of jihad : http://www.soffah.net/2015/02/isi-surat-perjanjian-rasulullah-dengan.html

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 3:46 pm

      Are we supposed to be impressed?

  12. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 12:16 am

    Quote “Anyone is eligible…” – yah anyone with a decent security team or tons of leo training. Just sayin. Better prepared than naive.

  13. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    i hadn’t realized we had to submit under our own names, and sign our work. I guess it’s time for me to put up or shut up.

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