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Mohammed cartoons: If you’re not publishing, you’re pretending

May 16, 2015 7:17 pm By Robert Spencer

muhammed-sword-winnerThis is the Age of Cowardice, as the cowards tell each other that they’re being “prudent,” and “respectful,” and not practicing “cultural arrogance.” But Robert Tracinski here capably explains why, when all is said and done, this is really just the Age of Cowardice.

“Mohammed Cartoons: If You’re Not Publishing, You’re Pretending,” by Robert Tracinski, The Federalist, May 12, 2015 (thanks to Buster):

…The non-subtle problem is the commentators who outright oppose the publishing of the cartoons and have openly given up on free speech. That’s a phenomenon I have already written about, and the Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple offers his own excellent round-up of “The Week That Cable News Failed Free Expression.” The only problem is that he limits himself to cable news, when the print and online media were furnishing plenty of other examples, from the New York Times to Bloomberg to the Washington Post itself.

Yet the subtler problem is with those who agree that the Mohammed cartoons are free speech and should be protected, and who want to express how much it makes them sad that someone would kill over a drawing—but who won’t even show us the drawings that the controversy is all about. They have decided that this is one controversy in which the public shouldn’t be encouraged to see the evidence and judge for themselves. This is one “provocative” issue on which they don’t really want to provoke anyone. So sure, they want to indicate their disapproval of a lethal prohibition on drawing Mohammed—but without doing anything to actually defy or weaken that prohibition.

That’s what gives these comments, like the “Saturday Night Live” sketch, the hollow feeling of a statement that doesn’t really state anything.

Do you want to take a stand in favor of free speech? Then I’m afraid you’re going to have to draw Mohammed. Or if you don’t possess that particular skill (and I sure don’t), then publish some of the cartoons that started this controversy.

Nearly a decade ago, after the first “cartoon jihad,” I argued for why this is necessary:

This is not merely a symbolic expression of support; it is a practical countermeasure against censorship. Censorship—especially the violent, anarchic type threatened by Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it can isolate a specific victim, making him feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the danger. What intimidates an artist or writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in the street carrying a placard that reads “Behead those who insult Islam.” What intimidates him is the feeling that, when the beheaders come after him, he will be on his own, with no allies or defenders—that everyone else will be too cowardly to stick their necks out.

The answer, for publishers, is to tell the Muslim fanatics that they can’t single out any one author, or artist, or publication. The answer is to show that we’re all united in defying the fanatics.

That’s what it means to show “solidarity” by re-publishing the cartoons. The message we need to send is: if you want to kill anyone who publishes those cartoons, or anyone who makes cartoons of Mohammed, then you’re going to have to kill us all. If you make war on one independent mind, you’re making war on all of us. And we’ll fight back.

So I was happy to see this same point reiterated recently by Mark Steyn:

[N]o cartoonist or publisher or editor should have to stand alone. The minute there were multimillion-dollar bounties on those cartoonists’ heads, The Times of London and Le Monde and The Washington Post and all the rest should have said, “This Thursday we’re all publishing the cartoons. If you want to put bounties on all our heads, you’d better have a great credit line at the Bank of Jihad. If you want to kill us, you’ll have to kill us all…”

Steyn, of course, has the courage of his convictions, so he includes an image of Bosch Fawstin’s winning cartoon from the Garland contest.

Simlarly, Eugene Volokh and the Washington Post get credit, not only for linking to Steyn, but for including an image of another Fawstin drawing, which is not explicitly of Mohammed but could definitely be interpreted that way.

FawstinStayQuiet

As for myself, I’ve included the first Fawstin cartoon at the top of this article and below. And it’s not the first time. Back when my own newsletter still had a print version, this was our cover for the Danish cartoons controversy.

tiamohammed-2

That’s Kurt Westergaard’s brilliant cartoon. The rest were published inside.

I don’t say this to boast about my great courage because I don’t think it takes great courage. Some other people who made it their business to be lightning rods have already made themselves the primary targets. I can publish these with confidence that before the jihadists go after me, they’ll go after Kurt Westergaard and Pamela Geller and Bosch Fawstin—by which I mean that they’ll go after them a second time—and then they’ll come for Geert Wilders and Mark Steyn. Eventually, they’ll come for me, but I’m a lot farther down the list. And anybody else who publishes it will have the privilege of going on the list after me.

But that’s the whole point: to spread out the danger by putting as many people on the list as possible.

This is why, despite all the throat-clearing about how such a provocation was unnecessary, Geller’s event was absolutely necessary and was the only way to make a real statement about free speech. Sometimes the only way to protect an endangered right is to exercise it. The only way to protest against a restriction on freedom of speech is to violate it. The imperative is summed up in Fawstin’s winning cartoon, in which the illustration of Mohammed declares “You can’t draw me,” and the artist replies, “That’s why I draw you.”…

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  1. Theodoric says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    If all of us who are determined to preserve our most precious possession, the freedom of speech, were to post a link to a “Prophet” Muhammad cartoon everyday, they would become so ubiquitous that it would become obvious even to the Islamites that the idea of stopping the cartooning with jihad attacks was a lost cause. Free Speech lovers outnumber the Islamites by far. Let’s take advantage of it and put an end to this barbaric lunacy.

    https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/preserve-freedom-of-speech-draw-the-vile-prophet-muhammad/

    • WestwardHo says

      May 16, 2015 at 8:25 pm

      Yes, all over facebook, twitter, etc…

      They “provoke” the drawings by forbidding them with threat of violence, lawlessness, and oppression.

    • t. says

      May 16, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      “This is not merely a symbolic expression of support; it is a practical countermeasure against censorship. Censorship—especially the violent, anarchic type threatened by Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it can isolate a specific victim, making him feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the danger. What intimidates an artist or writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in the street carrying a placard that reads “Behead those who insult Islam.” What intimidates him is the feeling that, when the beheaders come after him, he will be on his own, with no allies or defenders—that everyone else will be too cowardly to stick their necks out.

      The answer, for publishers, is to tell the Muslim fanatics that they can’t single out any one author, or artist, or publication. The answer is to show that we’re all united in defying the fanatics.

      That’s what it means to show “solidarity” by re-publishing the cartoons. The message we need to send is: if you want to kill anyone who publishes those cartoons, or anyone who makes cartoons of Mohammed, then you’re going to have to kill us all. If you make war on one independent mind, you’re making war on all of us. And we’ll fight back.”

      Simply beyond brilliant!! In my opinion the above quoted part should be shared with as many media and print outlets as possible.

      Thanks for including that link about “drawthevileprophet”, Theodoric.

  2. Peter says

    May 16, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    It reminds me of Martin Niemöllers poem:

    First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Socialist.

    Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

    He wrote it after having spent 7 years in nazi concentration camps, in spite of being a Christian (and so “should not” have a “real reason” to fear the nazis). The same thing happens again.

    If we don’t speak out for these brave cartoonists, who will speak out for us, when our time comes?

    • Kepha says

      May 17, 2015 at 8:40 pm

      “Christian” and “Aryan” (whatever that is) are not the same thing.

      • Peter says

        May 18, 2015 at 8:36 am

        Hello Kepha

        Correct. I wrote Christian, because that was how he identified himself. And as most Christians during this time, he could have taken the easy (short-term) path of keeping his mouth shut to avoid personal problems, since he was not part of any of the persecuted groups (Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists). But that would have made himself complicit in the crimes that were later committed (as he himself put it).

        As most people of the day, Martin Niemöller was an anti-Semite. Not ideologically so, but it was part of the publically correct way of thinking. It took him decades to confess this fact, and still, he was one of the first. His poem is a reflection on what happened to many people in Germany with a similar mindset: Since they were not directly affected by persecution (they were not communists, trade-unionists, Jews, etc.), and they might also have disliked the persecuted groups, they preferred to turn a blind eye to what was happening to avoid personal problems. But when they could no longer keep quiet, or when war was upon them, when it had gone too far, there was nobody left to speak for them.

        What happens today is very similar to what he describes. The words have changed, but the modus operandi is the same. Here, the persecuted groups are Christians, Jews, atheists, homosexuals, women, etc., and as the Nazis did, the actual perpetrators portray themselves as the victims of the abuse. Critics and victims are defamed and called “islamophobes” [sic], during Martins time they were called “race traitors” [sic], etc. Many people today, as during the time of the Nazis, prefer to keep quiet to avoid personal problems (real or imagined). They might also actually dislike the actual groups being persecuted. Today both anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity (masked as anti-theism [sic]) is rampant, both in the USA, but more so in Europe.

        The lesson of Marin Niemöller is this: You cannot wait until you are affected by persecution, to speak out. Then it will be too late. Regardless if you like or dislike, agree with or disagree with, the persecuted groups, you must speak out early, or there will be no-one there to speak out for you, when your time comes. You can read more about Martin Niemöller here:
        http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

        Best regards,
        Peter

  3. Angemon says

    May 16, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    The only way to protest against a restriction on freedom of speech is to violate it. The imperative is summed up in Fawstin’s winning cartoon, in which the illustration of Mohammed declares “You can’t draw me,” and the artist replies, “That’s why I draw you.”

    Exactly.

  4. Ann Inquirer says

    May 16, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    We still are not seeing ALL the entries to the contest published in one place.

    • Zimriel says

      May 16, 2015 at 8:44 pm

      Most of the drawings that I saw were of low quality.

      Fawstin’s drawing stood out. It would have won an honest free-speech contest anywhere.

    • RonaldB says

      May 16, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      Look at this link:

      http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/fdi/2015/04/vote-for-the-peoples-choice-award-in-afdis-muhammad-cartoon-contest.html#more

      • Mo says

        May 16, 2015 at 10:38 pm

        @ RonaldB

        Thanks for the link. This is the first time I’ve seen some of these. Wow, they are all pretty mild. Certainly nothing to kill over!

  5. Dag says

    May 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    I published a book of Mohammed cartoons in March. My next book of Mohammed cartoons, Motoons, will be out soon.

    http://www.amazon.com/Snootom-D-W-Walker/dp/0987761587

    Thanks to all of you who have ordered copies. Please feel free to pass them on to your favourite mosque.

    Dag Walker
    Iquitos, Peru

  6. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 17, 2015 at 1:18 am

    As to Publishing Mohammed Cartoons, Islam and Muslims want to “Ban” and “Criminalize” it as “Blasphemy, “Islamophobia” and “Hate Speech”, with the FORCED Imposition of Criminal Penalties.

    However Islam has NO problems when ANY other Non Islamic Faith or Belief IS “Blasphemed” and “Demeaned” with ISLAMIC “Slurs” and “Hate Speech”.

    Islam prefers ONLY “Pro Islam” Speech that advances the cause Islam, such as Taqiyya and Kitman, Islamic Qur’an condoned, Lying and Deception, which is really by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them, with Islam’s “Grand Deception” Lies.

    Whereas, their ARE MANY Museums and Cultural Centers, as well as ISLAMIC, that THEMSELVES OPENLY Display, and Sites that OPENLY Post Drawings and Depictions of MOHAMMED.

  7. Richard says

    May 17, 2015 at 2:58 am

    Seconded…

    However,

    When my employer in the United Kingdom found out about my art work for the Texas exhibition, they accused me of sharing an offensive religious image and suspended me on full pay since February…

    I’ve had to instruct a solicitor to deal with the issue of discrimination against my ethnic and religious characteristics protected by the Equality Act of 2010.

    This is very expensive and is only for the privileged. Plus the legal system here is skewed in favour of the company and very slow. I have had to resign and the reference they’re providing would prevent me from working in the banking industry. My employer a large banking group, is even lling their scam a serious allegation.

    In effect my artwork has been used in a fabrication intended to engineer my dismissal.

    I second what you say, but would never do it again because in the United Kingdom at least it is obviously against the law.

    • John Billings says

      May 18, 2015 at 8:23 am

      Don’t give up and don’t give in! This is a war, as Pamela Geller has said. You may do what I am about to do, wear a Mohammed cartoon on a T-shirt. Your Kingdom gave the world the Magna Carta and British Common Law, as well as the Parliamentary system. Be proud and don’t give up!

  8. I Iat says

    May 17, 2015 at 3:41 am

    HOORAY i was CENSORED.

    I made a rather negative comment to an article about Pamela Geller & it was removed.

    There is something very peculiar about that though. See: http://members.ziggo.nl/iiat/WebBooks.htm

  9. Lia Wissing says

    May 17, 2015 at 5:12 am

    Congratulations to Messrs Spencer, Tracinski & Steyn and to my heroine, Pamela Geller! You, all of you, inspire me.

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 17, 2015 at 9:29 am

    As we all know, en masse publishing of Prophet Mohammed cartoons hasn’t happened because of fear. But fear of what; what kind of fear? The obvious answer is personal retribution in the form of murder or severe injury, a real fear given that it’s been done and the Moslems promise to keep doing it. The less obvious answer is that publishing such a Mo cartoon will result in opprobrium, in other words, it’s not cool. This is the true weapon of terror, it is the very product of it. You might be killed for publishing, but you will *definitely* be shunned. To a publication or TV station this means loss of viewers and ad revenues; to an author of such a cartoon means ignominy, on other words, he’s no longer cool. Forget the cartoons and think just speaking out plainly on Mohammed and all of Islam. For an individual this means losing his job and being shunned from his social circle.

    So the socioeconomic penalty for truthful frankness about Islam is very high. But a new, third, type of penalty is coming: gubmint criminalization of the truth. This was recently proposed by Kinnock in the British election, and it has been endorsed by our next president here in America, where there are plenty of judges who give the constitution no regard when it comes to pushing popular causes.

    Counter-Jihadism and its truth ain’t cool. But, for some reason, being a Moslem *is* cool. The connections of cool Moslemism is all over, Huma Abedin, Valeries Jarrett, the mass import of legal Moslem immigrants, favorable treatment in movies, the president’s preacher publicly endorsing Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan… Islam is cool, it’s just misunderstood is all.

    If you take on that cool, watch out, not only for your life, but for your reputation and career.

  11. sidney penny says

    May 17, 2015 at 10:26 am

    http://louderwithcrowder.com/dear-muslims-why-am-i-drawing-muhammad-because-go-screw-yourselves/

    “To Muslims, we are told that we need to be tolerant. That we must respect your Islamic faith. That we can’t judge many by the actions of a few. Here’s the thing: these aren’t the actions of a few. Muslims know this. Drawing Muhammad in any shape or form is a punishable sin in Islam. All of Islam. Period. It is for this reason that the religion deserves no tolerance. Zero. Nada. Zilch.”

    ……………..

    Read more: http://louderwithcrowder.com/dear-muslims-why-am-i-drawing-muhammad-because-go-screw-yourselves/#ixzz3aPESDfAO

    “Liberals demand that Conservatives stay “out of their uterus” and “out of their bedroom.”How about demanding that Muslims (yes, ALL Muslims) stay out of our scrapbooks, our computer programs, and our pencil cases? Better yet, if you have a problem with our illustrations, how about staying out of our civilized countries? If I want to draw Muhammad, I’ll draw Muhammad. If you don’t like it, go fornicate yourself.”

  12. CROSSGUARD3 says

    May 17, 2015 at 10:33 am

    “That’s what gives these comments, like the “Saturday Night Live” sketch, the hollow feeling of a statement that doesn’t really state anything.”

    Thank you, Robert Tracinski.

    That point was addressed to near unanimous precision in comments to the post here about the SNL skit:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/snl-skit-depicts-fear-of-drawing-muhammad/comment-page-1#comment-1236177

  13. USMAN says

    May 17, 2015 at 11:04 am

    I hate this Mo cartoon. The artist could have done better by removing one tooth of the Prophet of Islam to conform to descriptions given by the Holy books of Islam.

  14. Michael Horn says

    May 17, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Things like this are not only ignorant and arrogant but…impotent to bring about anything positive, as was pointed out here:

    http://theyflyblog.com/2015/05/11/the-dangerous-arrogance-and-ignorance-of-pamela-geller/

    Think about it this way, if because of even the recent abuses of children and the bombing of abortion clinics, killing of doctors, etc., some group was to go and do a comparable cartoon exhibit defaming “Jesus Christ”, the imaginary savior of the Christian religions, would it stop either the abusers in the Church or the radical Christian killers? Of course not.

    But it would inflame lots of innocent Christians. And while people would like to say that the degenerate radical fundamentalist Islamic terrorists are worse, the plain fact is that more children (and women) have been abused by the Catholic Church, right here in this country, than by Islam.

    So while all the would-be Rambos salivate at the opportunity to shoot off their mouths as well as their guns, such foolhardiness as Ms. Geller encourages not only increases her as a target but also any and all other people, innocent people who’d happen to be around when the next batch of killers shows up…and probably not just a couple of incompetents with rifles.

    Strategically, tactically…effectively, this false bravado is worse than useless, it only guarantees more bloodshed.

    And no, I’m no sympathizer for terrorism but I’ve tried to do something about it instead of all this idiocy:

    http://theyflyblog.com/2014/11/28/the-only-way-to-stop-the-is/

    • Angemon says

      May 17, 2015 at 5:53 pm

      Michael Horn posted:

      “Think about it this way, if because of even the recent abuses of children and the bombing of abortion clinics, killing of doctors, etc., some group was to go and do a comparable cartoon exhibit defaming “Jesus Christ”, the imaginary savior of the Christian religions, would it stop either the abusers in the Church or the radical Christian killers? Of course not.

      But it would inflame lots of innocent Christians. And while people would like to say that the degenerate radical fundamentalist Islamic terrorists are worse, the plain fact is that more children (and women) have been abused by the Catholic Church, right here in this country, than by Islam.”

      The fallacy here is that there’s no teaching in mainstream, orthodox Christianity that justifies abusing children or bombing abortion clinics, but there’s teachings in mainstream, orthodox islam that call for the death penalty for drawing muhammad. This simple, yet crucial, fact seems to elude Michael Horn.

      “So while all the would-be Rambos salivate at the opportunity to shoot off their mouths as well as their guns”

      And exactly how many people went to “shoot their guns” because of the cartoon exhibit? Zero, that’s how many.

      “such foolhardiness as Ms. Geller encourages not only increases her as a target but also any and all other people, innocent people who’d happen to be around when the next batch of killers shows up…and probably not just a couple of incompetents with rifles.

      Strategically, tactically…effectively, this false bravado is worse than useless, it only guarantees more bloodshed.”

      Yes, let’s blame the canary for what happens in the coal mine. Damn canaries!!!

      “And no, I’m no sympathizer for terrorism but I’ve tried to do something about it instead of all this idiocy:

      http://theyflyblog.com/2014/11/28/the-only-way-to-stop-the-is/”

      So you rail against the “Rambos” and you blame a cartoon exhibit for the acts of the jihadis while trying to get an army to fight the islamic state?

      What do you think the jihadis in US soil would do if the US declared they were going to send troops to fight the islamic state? Going by your “logic, if your petition worked and the US sent troops and jihadis in the US responded by murdering hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent American civilians, it would be your responsibility. Their blood would be in your hands. You spat in their eye. You “provoked” them. In those conditions, the next Boston Bombing, Fort Hood shooting or the next 9/11 would be YOUR responsibility, according to your “logic”.

      • Michael Horn says

        May 17, 2015 at 6:56 pm

        The plain fact remains that there are about 2 billion Muslims in the world who don’t attack and kill people for drawing Mohammed…but the abuse, torture, etc., of children and others is and has been institutionalized by/in the Church.

        Obviously there’s a huge difference between encouraging incendiary, provocative and impotent actions that only insult the majority of the believers, and an international military force that addresses the main radical Islamic combative force.

        That there are already sleeper cells here, that there will most likely be attacks, etc., is a real problem that the people who think that these foolish exercises in “free speech” are in any way going to help to stop, are deluding themselves…and only throwing fuel on the fire.

        It’s an idiot’s tactic and, of course, so far no one has actually said just HOW this improves anything. In fact, you fail to see that the real military action is necessary and that your speaking against it portrays a form of appeasement. Try to understand the real distinctions…and again, where is the actual benefit form the cartoons?

        • Angemon says

          May 18, 2015 at 6:13 am

          Michael Horn posted:

          “The plain fact remains that there are about 2 billion Muslims in the world who don’t attack and kill people for drawing Mohammed…but the abuse, torture, etc., of children and others is and has been institutionalized by/in the Church.”

          Nope. There’s an estimate 1.5-1.6 billion muslims in the world. I suspect the reason they don’t attack anyone for drawing muhammad is that most of them live in the so-called “islamic world” and drawing muhammad there would warrant a death sentence. One doesn’t need much to be condemned to death in those countries. You can have a mob of raging muslims clamoring for your blood for the mere suggestion you blasphemed, or defaced a quran, or preached any religion other than islam.

          Can you prove me that all those muslims who aren’t killing people for drawing muhammad wouldn’t do so given the chance? As for the “institutionalized abuses” in the Church, show me where Christian orthodoxy mandates it. Shouldn’t, if your assertion were true, we have gangs of Christians abusing children and justifying it on Christian teachings? We don’t. We do, however, have gangs of muslims abusing non-muslim children in the UK while the authorities look the other way for fear of being considered “racists”.

          What you’re doing in both cases is taking a minority (muslims who reject the islamic imperative to kill for blasphemy and preists who abused children) and claiming that’s the majority. Islam and Christianity aren’t defined by what their followers do, they’re defined by their scriptures. If a muslim or a Christian does something that goes against what their scriptures mandate then they’re not doing it because of they’re religion, they’re doing despite their religion.

          “Obviously there’s a huge difference between encouraging incendiary, provocative and impotent actions that only insult the majority of the believers, and an international military force that addresses the main radical Islamic combative force.”

          Yes. One would “provoke” much more attacks on innocent civilians than the other. Frankly, your insistence in describing the cartoon exhibit as “provocative” or “incendiary” or “meant to insult” is disturbing. Fine, you’re at odds with free speech. I’d say that you coming here and insulting everyone is far more provocative that the cartoon exhibit ever was. Should one of the “Rambos” take up arms and shoot you? Of course not. Should you be stopped from speaking your mind? Of course not.

          “That there are already sleeper cells here, that there will most likely be attacks, etc., is a real problem that the people who think that these foolish exercises in “free speech” are in any way going to help to stop, are deluding themselves…and only throwing fuel on the fire.”

          So your stance is that you shouldn’t do certain things because certain people would react violently? Reminds me of a joke. During pre-WWII Germany two Jews are arrested for no apparent reason, judged and sentenced to death by shooting squad. During the whole process one of them remains silent and the others protests as loud as he can. While the shooting squad is readying their weapons, one of the jews keeps shouting “I demand to know why we’re being shot. I demand a fair trial. I want to know what the charges are and I want a fair chance to defend myself”. The other Jew, the one who always kept silent finally spoke. He turned to his friend and said “Will you shut the hell up? You’re going to get us in trouble”.

          “It’s an idiot’s tactic and, of course, so far no one has actually said just HOW this improves anything.”

          Nah. You refusing to acknowledge something is not the same as something not existing.

          “In fact, you fail to see that the real military action is necessary and that your speaking against it portrays a form of appeasement.”

          Liar. Show me where I spoke against military action. I confronted your actions with your logic. You say that the cartoon exhibit shouldn’t have taken place because it “provoked” muslims into attacking civilians and I pointed out that you were calling for something that would surely “provoke” more muslims into attacking civilians. Now, show me where I spoke against military action or retract your words.

          “Try to understand the real distinctions…and again, where is the actual benefit form the cartoons?”

          Again, you refusing to acknowledge something isn’t the same as something not existing. I bet if this were 11940 you’d be speaking against Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” as being “provocative” and “insulting” against all German people.

          Show me where I spoke against military action or retract your words, lest you want to be forever remembered as a lying scumbag running his own one-man propaganda department against freedom of speech.

    • Kepha says

      May 17, 2015 at 9:03 pm

      The actual benefit from the cartoons is that SOMEONE is showing that Islam is a threat to free speech–and you are hearing this from someone who can actually sympathize with Franklin Graham’s criticism of the exhibit.

      BTW, as a Christian, I have been **inflamed** about the direction our culture has been going for decades; but I have prayed for those being hurt rather than throwing bombs. It may just be, as far as I can see, that feminists who have devoted their lives to empowerment and the destruction of their unborn children ending up in lonely and embittered old age, an educational system increasingly dysfunctional following its exorcism of the Christian God, and the militant Godless whimpering as they are [successfully] being taught not to blaspheme by a culture that produces chiefly slums surrounded by deserts are all reminders that God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] is not mocked. Yes, the same Paul whom I was taught to despise back in my childhood is also the same guy who tells me to seek peace with all men as much as it is up to me and to leave room for the vengeance of God. As for the latter, I weep that it will fall on a lot of people whom I love.

    • duh_swami says

      May 18, 2015 at 7:15 am

      Horn sez…the plain fact is that more children (and women) have been abused by the Catholic Church, right here in this country, than by Islam.

      BS…And some more BS…

  15. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    You know what gets me? So far as I know, in all mainstream media reports on the Draw Muhammad art contest, *not one* has included the interesting piece of information that the winning artwork was drawn by a young man who is **an apostate from Islam**.

    Who is violating sharia by 1/ drawing a representation of a human form (which sharia forbids) 2/ drawing Muhammad 3/ drawing Muhammad critically and 4/ last but not least, by **being an apostate**.

    He’s publicly criticising Islam and he has *left* Islam and now practises a different belief system, namely, nonbelief, atheism, western rationalism. So he becomes a target of *both* the Muslim blasphemy ‘law’ AND of the Muslim apostasy ‘law’.

    Leaving Islam – whether for another belief, or nonbelief – warrants DEATH, according to the apostasy law of Islam.

    Yet *not one* of the myriad newspaper articles and op eds in the MSM, about this contest, has seen fit to tell their viewers and readers anything at all about incredibly-brave Bosch Fawstin – American apostate from Islam, of Balkan ethnicity (Albanian, if I recall rightly?), who must look over his shoulder for the sharia assassin for the rest of his life.

    Public reporting on this contest should have included a discussion of the Islamic apostasy ‘law’ as well as the Islamic blasphemy ‘law’.

  16. General says

    May 17, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    All things being equal I accept that the office of the President of the United States is a political proxy of the Uber elite banking cartel and that numerous elected congressional representatives are paid minions of the same banking cartel. If you can accept this premise read on. The President does nothing on theirr own initiative. Their function is to carryout policies developed by the banking cartel.

    Currently the Presidency is re formating the Middle East and North Africa – removing obsticles – to the creation of a new Islamic Califate peice by peice. Why? Here is conjecture could it be that the interests that own the global media and control the global economy through the central banking system IMF are looking to impose Islam on the globe because organised Christianity no longer fulfills it’s role of social control where as Islam was and is specifically designed to control every aspect of the individuals life.

    And control is the name of the game. We know electronic servaillance in the US tagets it’s own citizenry while the Federal Govt is militarizing the police force. FEMA is building detention camps and guillotines have been purchased by the tens of thousands. It is becoming increasingly impossible to criticise Islam while the media talking heads are reading and broadcasting their pro Islam scripts deliberately avoiding any real analysis of Islam and Islamic terrorism but attacking without mercy those who do.

    I believe the ground is being prepared to officially adopt Islam as the state religion and to use force to compel compliance. This explains why the state does not miss any opportunity to talk up Islam it is psychologically preparing the ground for the shift with the ultimate aim of enslaving the population under Islamic law for the benefit of the small banking elite who by brain washing the young with the poison of the Quran will be able to again use religion and wave “Allah” in the faces of the populace to blind, manipulate and control the masses while themselfes enjoying paradise on earth.

    Of course it’s conjecture but could this be the end game?

    • duh_swami says

      May 18, 2015 at 7:26 am

      I can relate to some of that, especially about big banking, but not this….’guillotines have been purchased by the tens of thousands.

      You need to substantiate that one with hard facts…

  17. John Boston says

    May 18, 2015 at 8:39 am

    In reference to “If you’re not publishing, you’re pretending”: I have ordered a T-shirt with the infamous “bombhead” Mohammed cartoon on the front. If the company (Custom Ink) will print it, I will wear it. I will especially wear it in Harvard Square and other places where the liberal/ Islamofascist appeaser crowd is thick.

    This Mohammed T-shirt is not aimed at Muslims so much as at the appeasers, the quislings who collaborate with Islamofascism. I have already been warned what the results may be for me, but as Patrick Henry said, “give me liberty or give me death”.

    I encourage anyone reading this to order such a T-shirt, for they cannot kill us all. The ultimate goal is to show that in the USA we do have freedom of expression, and that we will stand up for it.

    • John Boston says

      May 18, 2015 at 8:51 am

      And as for Michael Horn: I tire of all this online debating. Stop hiding yourself behind a computer screen, with your brazen and fallacious arguments. If you really have the courage of your convictions, Mr. Horn, meet me in The Pit at Harvard Square, at a time of your choosing.

      • Michael Horn says

        May 19, 2015 at 12:31 am

        Another blustering online comedian hero. Who’s…”John Boston” and why is he hiding behind a computer screen?

        I’d say that I’m hardly hiding:

        http://www.theyfly.com

        Grow up bully boy.

  18. General says

    May 18, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    In reply to duh_swami says

    Among many reports circulating around the free internet media :

    For example:-

    http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/06/29/why-does-the-government-need-guillotines/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujX8evzRXN0

    As I understand it beheading is the standard method of execution among Moslems so not such a streach that if the American state were to officially adopt Islam that it would use de capitation as the favoured method of eliminating dissenters and spreading fear among the general population to compel compliance.

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