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The AFDI Draw Muhammad Contest: Announcing the People’s Choice Award

Mar 25, 2015 8:27 am By Robert Spencer

drawmuhammadfinal700Get your tickets here. And enter your cartoon, painting, etching or artwork to this email address: muhammadartexpo@gmail.com — the deadline for submissions is April 5, so get your cartoons in now!

“The AFDI Draw Muhammad Contest: Announcing the People’s Choice Award,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, March 25, 2015:

Last month, the American Freedom Defense Initiative announced its first annual American Freedom Defense Initiative Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, to be held on May 3 in the Dallas area to show that we will defend free speech and not give in to violent intimidation.

Now, in light of the huge number of submissions of Muhammad cartoons that we have received, we have decided to give a second prize: the People’s Choice Award.

The contest is already underway online, and winning entries will be posted at the AFDI website. The winning cartoon will be announced at the May 3 cartoon exhibit in Garland. The winning cartoonist will be awarded a $10,000 prize. And now, due to the high number of submissions we have received, and the increasing pressure from Muslim groups to impose sharia restrictions on speech (a Muslim group is now seeking to have cartoons of Muhammad declared “hate speech”), we are adding a $2,500 People’s Choice Award. Those who attend our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest will vote on the top entries. If the winner our judges have selected is different from the winner by the people, the People’s Choice winner will receive $2,500.

The keynote speaker at our Texas event will be Dutch freedom fighter and Parliamentarian Geert Wilders – one of the very few politicians on the international scene who dares the speak the truth about the jihadist threat. Also speaking will be my AFDI colleague, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, and other freedom fighters. The cartoon exhibit will feature images of Islam’s prophet, both historic and contemporary.

The exhibit will be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland on Sunday, May 3. 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. The Muslim event was held in a hall owned by the local school district. When asked why they allowed that event on their premises, they answered that their hall was open to anyone who wished to rent it. So we are renting it for our Muhammad Cartoon Exhibit.

The Cartoon Exhibit was a logical next step following AFDI’s Free Speech Rally in Garland. This new event will stand for free speech and show that Americans will not be cowed by violent Islamist intimidation. That is a crucial stand to take as Islamist assaults on the freedom of speech, our most fundamental freedom, are growing more insistent.

After the Charlie Hebdo massacre – and after the violent Muhammad cartoon riots a few years ago – there should have been Cartoon Exhibits all over the free world, to show the jihadists and their stealth allies in groups that are doing all they can to intimidate the West into abandoning the freedom of speech) that we will not kowtow to violent intimidation. But there were no such exhibits. The free world was ready to submit.

But we aren’t. We know the risks. Of course, this event will require massive security. But this exhibit has to be staged. If we don’t show the jihadists that they will not frighten us into silence, the jihad against freedom will only grow more virulent.

And we hope that this event will give others the courage to stand up as well and show the world that they aren’t going to submit to intimidation. Otherwise, it is no exaggeration to say that all will be lost.

That’s because the freedom of speech is already under severe attack. Several weeks ago, an Islamic jihadist murdered one person and wounded three, firing multiple shots at an event entitled “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression” at the Krudttoenden cafe in Copenhagen, featuring Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks and Francois Zimeray, the French ambassador to Denmark.

Also recently, a Muslim mob in Pakistan that was protesting against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Muhammad forced open the gates of a Christian school, smashed windows, destroyed property, and demanded that the school be closed. This followed demonstrations in which tens of thousands of Muslims in Pakistan demanded that the West adopt Sharia blasphemy laws. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated against free speech in Chechnya. Muslim mobs in Niger set 45 churches on fire in their rage against the actions.

Meanwhile, a carnival in Germany canceled plans for a Charlie Hebdo float. A cartoon museum in Belgium canceled plans for a Charlie Hebdo tribute. An art museum in Paris removed an artwork from exhibit after Muslim threats. This stunning cowardice proves, yet again, that it hardly ends with cartoons. It begins there. The West is giving these savages the ultimate power over us. They seek to control what we say, what we think, and how we live.

And we are giving them that power.

These supremacists need to be held to account, and the West has to stop this pathetic cowardice and submission to barbarity. Islamists have to stop imposing repression on the non-Muslim and secular Muslim world. Enough is enough. They’re just cartoons. Are we going to stand idle while psychopaths who would commit murder because of them frighten the free world into giving up the freedom of speech, the cornerstone of a free society?

It’s time to stand up.

Please help us pay the massive security costs and other expenses involved in this all-important event: contribute here. And stand with us against violent intimidation: get tickets here.

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  1. Jack Holan says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 8:37 am

    I could take a selfie and claim that it is the image of Mohammed and no one would know if I were correct or not. Since the Prophet did not allow images of himself and those first created were long after he was dead by people who had never seen him; no one knows. Therefore how can a artistic rendition a strong vibrant man be an insult?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 11:31 am

    I would go with the Wanted Poster theme.

    Wanted: Escapee from hell.
    If spotted please call 1-800-satanic

    • Darren says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 1:06 pm

      I would go with the Meagan’s Law theme. Many hadiths read like a cross between gay porn and child porn. Truly if NAMBLA ever had a patron saint it would be mohammad. If mohammad was alive today he would have been busted driving a white van, and doing life in a super max for molesting young boys and girls. I wish I could draw, I have some great ideas for a Meagan’s Law themed mohammad.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 2:12 pm

      Jay Boo, the “Wanted Poster” is an excellent idea! Would you be OK if I used this idea—giving you full kudos, of course? It is too late for me to start another piece before the show deadline, but it would make a great cartoon.

  3. Darren says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    I would go with the Meagan’s Law theme. Many hadiths read like a cross between gay porn and child porn. Truly if NAMBLA ever had a patron saint it would be mohammad. If mohammad was alive today he would have been busted driving a white van, and doing life in a super max for molesting young boys and girls. I wish I could draw, I have some great ideas for a Meagan’s Law themed mohammad.

  4. Champ says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    If I were to enter this contest, then I would use this character for artistic inspiration …

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/10/article-0-0981D84F000005DC-136_233x323_popup.jpg

    • Mirren10 says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 3:23 pm

      Aaargh !

      Who is that repulsive looking character ?

      Yes, Champ, he looks very much as I imagine paedomo looked – right down to the insane eyes. Blech.

      • Champ says

        Mar 25, 2015 at 5:20 pm

        “Who is that repulsive looking character ?”

        LOL!!! 😀 I don’t know, Mirren10! Indeed, he’s really creepy. I found this photo on Google images and thought of vile mohammad, too. Hey no wonder he didn’t want any drawings done of him–he undoubtedly had the same evil countenance and soulless eyes as this guy.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 4:35 pm

      Bleachchchchch!

      I have some fairly disgusting entries myself. You’ll have to decide which most nearly captures the spirit of the baleful “Prophet”.

      • Champ says

        Mar 25, 2015 at 6:41 pm

        I’m very anxious to see your completed work, Graven!

    • xxxChurch100 says

      Mar 26, 2015 at 4:29 pm

      Hey Champ , from a purely artistic stance …. this image captures the very essence and beauty of peaceful Islam .
      IF this picture was indeed the Prophet then may peace , blessings , good fortune , abundance ,and world domination be upon him … once he is released …. I know you would agree , it really is a mouth watering prospect .
      I think even the great Leonardo might struggle to do this photo justice .

      • xxxChurch100 says

        Mar 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm

        On further consideration , is this photo taken from within a prison or a zoo ?

        • Champ says

          Mar 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm

          Great question, xxxChurch! …yeah in the photo he looks like a cross-eyed lion, lol! 😀

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    Excellent news.

    I’ve already entered six pieces, and am hard at work on a seventh.

    And here is my “Heroes Against Jihad” tribute to keynote speaker Geert Wilders:

    http://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/media/JWHGW.jpg.html

    • Champ says

      Mar 25, 2015 at 6:39 pm

      Brava, Graven!! …you are such a gifted artist, my friend 🙂

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 26, 2015 at 2:40 pm

        Thank you so much, Champ! I’m glad to hear that there is such a great turnout for this show.

  6. JOHN SPIELMAN says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    take a photo of a pile of excrement and label it Muhammed

  7. torino390 says

    Mar 25, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    I really applaud your efforts, and yes, it is definitely time to stand up. I did try to make a donation, but the link doesn’t work. maybe because I am in the UK perhaps? Good luck to all concerned, and a respectful tip of the hat from across the pond.

  8. Linde Barrera says

    Mar 26, 2015 at 12:13 am

    I think President Obama, VP Biden, CIA Chief Brennan and Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson should all get a personal invitation. I would like to send a personal check as I don’t trust online banking, PayPal stuff. Where may I send my valid check please?

  9. Mike Holt, CEO RestoreAustralia says

    Mar 26, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    While I love Pamela’s work and fully support her and her team, I can’t help feeling that this Draw Mohammed initiative is designed only to antagonize the mozlems. What will it achieve?

    Wouldn’t it be better to do something constructive, as we are her in Australia on April 4? We are mobilizing patriots across the nation to rally in the streets to show the mozlems and the government that we will not tolerate islam in our nation….we want to BAN ISLAM. No more appeasing. No more trying to accommodate them. Either they LEAVE ISLAM OR LEAVE AUSTRALI (LILA)

    • Joseph says

      Mar 27, 2015 at 12:37 am

      It is a forum, a place where we can unite.
      It is also to show the world that some of us are not afraid.
      It may also tip the Mudslimes hand
      It is also a call for the rest of the world to wake up.

      If this contest is not held because it may make the Muslims upset then we are no better than the cowards who believe that it is better to live under a Satanic rule than not to live at all.

      AS OF TODAY THERE ARE 25,423 REASONS TO HAVE THIS CONTEST.
      Islam must be stopped, if not by freedom loving people then by WHO?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 30, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      Mike Holt, CEO RestoreAustralia wrote:

      While I love Pamela’s work and fully support her and her team, I can’t help feeling that this Draw Mohammed initiative is designed only to antagonize the mozlems. What will it achieve?
      ………………………………………

      Mr. Holt, I’m afraid we’ve heard this before.

      This show is not intended to “only antagonize the mozlems”—in fact, Muslims are not the primary audience for this show at all.

      Every MoToon at base, whatever its specific subject, and whether sophisticated or crude, is a criticism of Islam and the “Prophet” by its very nature.

      Muslims in their threats, attacks, and murder of cartoonists—the Danish MoToon artists of Jyllands-Posten, Lars Vilks and his associates, Molly Norris, and the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo—are saying that no criticism of Islam and the “Prophet” is allowed.

      If we follow your recommendations, then we are—though I am sure this is not your intent—acceding to Shari’ah bans on being able to criticize or even question the baleful “Prophet”.

      And more broadly, we are ceding our freedom of speech to these barbaric thugs.

      More:

      Wouldn’t it be better to do something constructive…
      ………………………………………

      The idea that defending our freedom of speech is *not constructive* could not be more mistaken.

      More:

      …as we are her in Australia on April 4? We are mobilizing patriots across the nation to rally in the streets to show the mozlems and the government that we will not tolerate islam in our nation….we want to BAN ISLAM. No more appeasing. No more trying to accommodate them. Either they LEAVE ISLAM OR LEAVE AUSTRALI (LILA)
      ………………………………………

      The idea that opposing Jihad is “either/or” is mistaken. There are *many* different approaches one can take, including educating Infidels about Jihad, exposing the evils of Islam (as Jihad Watch does), challenging creeping Shari’ah (as this show does), or demonstrations against Islamization (such as your rallies).

      Good for you for taking action—I hope your rallies have a great turnout and are a real success. May there be many more of them.

      One more point I believe you are mistaken on, though—if you believe that holding such rallies will not “antagonize” Muslims, then perhaps you have not observed similar rallies in other places, where Muslims have been disruptive and even violent. You nay also experience unfair slams from not just Muslims but assorted useful idiots, who will claim that you yourselves are violent in intent, are “Islamophobic” and even “racist”, and that your values are not Australian.

      You can expect all this and more. Because pious Muslims intend to dominate, and any actions we “filthy Infidels” take to resist are bound to “antagonize” these supremacist thugs.

      Best of luck.

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