This is for artists who’ve remained silent about the issue of drawing Mohammad, even after cartoonists were slaughtered over it, and who are afraid to draw Mohammad, though they’d never admit it, and who have never been challenged over it. The reason why the Charlie Hebdo massacre happened is because ten years earlier, when Danish cartoonists were threatened with murder for drawing Mohammad, the civilized world, the world that claims to defend Free Speech, sold out Free Speech, submitted to the savages, and even justified the threats. And the enemy saw that abject fear across the West, and they knew that they could get away with murder. And they did, because no one speaks of Charlie Hebdo anymore, and hardly anyone draws Mohammad anymore.
But still, after those at Charlie Hebdo were murdered over Mohammad cartoons on January 7, 2015, you would have thought that such an attack would have rallied the West to respond in a strong way, and for publishers across the world to publish the cartoons, in defiance of such an attack on civilization. Instead, fear ruled the day and it created a vacuum that sleazy politicians filled. They made the attack all about themselves, as they converged in France, leading crowds to nowhere, and saying nothing worthwhile or true about what had happened. And recalling the videos and the pictures at the time, these sleazy politicians probably made sure that the Mohammad cartoons that the cartoonists were murdered over were nowhere in sight in the crowds behind them. But there were plenty of trendy pens being held in the air, and t-shirts and signs with “Je Suis Charlie”, worn and held by those who would never draw Mohammad. If you don’t draw Mohammad, you don’t get to say “Je Suis Charlie”. The event dishonored those at Charlie Hebdo, and ignored the entire point of it all, that we must defy these evil savages by doing precisely what they threaten us not to do.
Eventually, it took the typically callous actions of Muslims to finally provoke a strong response. Eleven days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Muslims walked over their dead bodies to hold an event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, to defend Mohammad from criticism and cartoons called “Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect”. And Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer saw that and decided to stand with Free Speech by organizing a Mohammad cartoon contest where the winner would be announced at the same location, where there would also be an exhibition of Mohammad art, and Geert Wilders would be the keynote speaker. I ended up winning the contest, and the jihadists who came to mass-murder us ended up getting their heads blown off. And then there was a second attack on us, but this time it was by the media, on both the left and the right, who were determined to paint us- the targets of a terrorist attack -as worse than the jihadists who came to murder us.
Free Speech isn’t about what we can talk about, it’s not about speech that’s considered “acceptable” in society at any particular time, it’s about saying what “can’t” be said, yet still saying it, come what may. And that freedom to say the unsayable is under relentless attack by those who view that freedom as a threat to them. Weak ideas, weak ideologies, can’t withstand scrutiny. And people having the freedom to say whatever they want could lead them to call out those ideas and ideologies, to expose them as the complete opposite of what they claim to be, and that’s why Muslims and leftists are the greatest enemies of Free Speech, because they have the most to lose if their ideas are allowed to be scrutinized.
If you don’t support cartoonists drawing Mohammad, then you don’t support Free Speech. If you reserve all of your condemnation for those who draw Mohammad, and are silent about those who threaten them over it, then you’re a coward.
Once human beings are murdered over cartoons, those who would invoke “hurt feelings” and “decorum” should be completely dismissed. This is an issue of free expression, an issue of defying an enemy in wartime who wants to kill you if you exercise that freedom. Yet I’m still told that I shouldn’t draw Mohammad because it “hurts” the feelings of Muslims, because it’s not “nice”, because it pisses off Muslims. The only reason people are worried about pissed off Muslims is because Muslims act violently when they’re pissed off. But my support for Free Speech doesn’t end when Muslim violence begins, my support only grows stronger.
Still, to this day, I’m accused of “provoking” Muslims, when it’s their threats over cartoons that “provokes” me to draw Mohammad. I know that most cartoonists don’t draw Mohammad because of death threats, but death threats should have been the spark to get most of us to draw Mohammad. It did with me. I was raised Muslim, and I never even considered drawing Mohammad, and I didn’t even know that there was a prohibition against it. But when Muslims warn us that we can’t draw Mohammad because Islam forbids it, we have a choice, to either draw Mohammad or become de facto Muslims and sell out Free Speech.
We’re always hearing that “it’s time” for something to be said or done, for no other reason that that “it’s 2019”, and it’s usually something as stupid as “It’s time for a black, female, transgender James Bond.” Well, it’s time that cartoonists who claim to support free speech draw Mohammad. Otherwise, you’re full of it.
It’s time that those who claim to support Free Speech are put to the test. Behaving as an enemy wants you to behave is capitulation, but I’m told by some cartoonists who haven’t drawn Mohammad that it’s not their “thing”, that it doesn’t “interest” them. When cartoonists are murdered for drawing something that an enemy at war with us doesn’t want us to draw, the only self-respecting thing one can do is to draw precisely what the bastards don’t want you to draw. Can you imagine the World War Two generation being warned by Hitler and his Nazis that if they drew Hitler, they would be murdered, and of that generation falling silent and not drawing Hitler? That warning would have resulted in endless Hitler cartoons. I don’t want to hear, “Well, that was a different time”, because it’s just an excuse to capitulate, as if we all have to get on board with this Age of Capitulation, just because so many do it. Defying evil is a timeless thing, and while I understand that not everyone is built for it, if none do so, then evil wins. And right now, evil is winning. That we cannot defeat the Islamic enemy, almost 18 years after 9/11, is a defeat unto itself.
Where is the traditional American defiance in all of this? As Ayn Rand put it, “Defiance, not obedience, is the American’s answer to overbearing authority.” And look at the part of the world that doesn’t draw Mohammad to know what happens when evil wins, to see what happens to an entire part of the world where the bad guy won. A world so defeated that the founder of the ideology that defeated them cannot be drawn, cannot be criticized, and so cannot be overthrown from their mind. The West resembles the Islamic world more than the Islamic world resembles the West, post-9/11. That’s Islamization at work. The incremental, corrosive, pushing of Islam down our throats as something good and valuable to us, when it’s antithetical to everything we claim to upheld.
When it comes to Mohammad cartoons and cartoonists, I’m particularly disappointed with Frank Miller, who’s referred to as a “controversial” cartoonist, but who hasn’t drawn Mohammad in the 14 years since cartoonists were first threatened with murder for drawing Mohammad, at least in a way that the news media couldn’t ignore. Miller used to talk a good game about Free Speech decades ago, but he’s pretty much clammed up about Free Speech since the Mohammad cartoon “crisis” hit, which tells me that his “support” for Free Speech was all talk. If you’re not going to support Free Speech when it most matters, then I don’t want to hear you yap about it when it least matters.
As for those who tell me that it’s not their “duty” to put their lives on the line by drawing Mohammad: Drawing Mohammad is not a death sentence, but Not drawing Mohammad, and not publishing Mohammad cartoons could be a death sentence for our culture. Speaking for myself, I’ve drawn Mohammad over 300 times, I survived a jihadist attack, I’ve gotten thousands of death threats from Muslims, and I’m alive. Yes, the bastards want me dead, and my life has become difficult at times, but Free Speech is alive, even if I’m the last one drawing Mohammad. If I’m going to die over this, then I’m going to die as I want to live, not as an enemy wants me to “live”.
Islamic dictatorships forbid Mohammad cartoons, and the West is increasingly forbidding Mohammad cartoons. That this needs to be stated tells us how far we’ve fallen, but we need to be completely different from Islamic dictatorships, and in this issue, we’re far too alike. And that’s why I have two books worth of my Mohammad cartoons, so far, to try to keep that world at bay, even if only by myself.
Some things are worse than death, such as a world without Free Speech. We know what that kind of world looks like, what kind of hellhole it is, so we should operate in a way that makes our world completely different from that world. And if this challenge of mine only makes people openly admit their fear of drawing Mohammad, then that’s a start.
The Islamic enemy has many on its side who want to kill Free Speech, and we have very few on our side who want to defend it. This is unacceptable, and it’s unbecoming of a people who have the freedom to speak, but who choose not to, out of fear. The Danish Mohammad cartoon “crisis”, and the Charlie Hebdo massacre were challenges to our core values, and we failed to meet those challenges directly and honestly. We’ve become a culture that is regularly paying tribute to an ideology that sanctions the war against us. It’s infuriating, at times, to see this widespread cowardice, and to see a weak enemy have such power over so many of us.
It’s tough to hear cartoonists talk about their “brave” and “controversial” work – such as portraying Jesus as a warlord, (while they would Never portray Mohammad as the warlord he actually was). It’s equally tough to see an organization- one that I used to be a card-carrying member of -claim that it’s all for Free Speech, but then run at the first sign of trouble. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund published a pamphlet about “Cartoonists Under Fire”, which was written after the Garland attack, and which made No mention of me, a cartoonist who was literally under fire in Texas. I called them out publicly, on my blog, on social media, and on Red Eye, and some CBLDF members scrambled to try to put a good face on it, but they showed that their “support” for Free Speech was very conditional and very leftist. And they’ll never get another penny from me.
It’s insane that cartoonists are threatened with death for drawing Mohammad cartoons, and it’s insane that we’re blamed for inciting terrorism, and I draw Mohammad, repeatedly, to push back against such insanity. This is war, on the battlefield, and in the culture, and I’m challenging cartoonists to prove their support for Free Speech by drawing Mohammad. Right now, and it’s hard to believe, but I’m the only cartoonist who is regularly drawing Mohammad today. There should be so many people drawing Mohammad that it confounds the enemy. If many of us drew Mohammad after the Mohammad cartoon “crisis”, and if many publishers published Mohammad cartoons, those at Charlie Hebdo might still be alive, because they wouldn’t have been so isolated and so easy to kill, as the few who drew Mohammad. A few years before the massacre, Charlie Hebdo had their offices firebombed, and Hebdo’s publisher, Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier, stated at the time, “I would rather die standing than live on my knees.”We Americans all have a good time mocking the French, but they did what many of us don’t dare do, so we should keep that in mind before pretending that we’re better than them on the issue of Free Speech. Where is the American equivalent of Charlie Hebdo?
Marvel and DC Comics, and other mainstream comic book publishers, have published benefit books for all kinds of causes over the decades, and I think “it’s time” for Free Speech to get that same kind of treatment.
As for those cartoonists who might be waiting to draw Mohammad, waiting until the coast is clear: the coast isclear. It was cleared by those who defend freedom. Some, with their very lives. If we keep acting as if Free Speech is over, it will be.
The question isn’t “Why would you draw Mohammad if you know it makes Muslims crazy?”, the question is, “How do you respond when Muslims threaten to murder over Mohammad cartoons?” And the answer is, by drawing Mohammad cartoons. Free Speech is under attack by the left, by Muslims, and by the worst on the right, so when Free Speech is under attack, you defend it, you exercise it, you push back and you defy its enemies. It’s a simple thing, but we’re living in such a mad time in history that savages have made cartoons a part of the battleground in this never-ending post-9/11 war. Cartoons. And that’s not to diminish the value of cartoons, which I love and which I make my living on, it’s to illustrate how fragile, how hypersensitive this enemy is, and how we should use that as part of the defense of the West.
One of the most self-loathing things I hear from non-Muslims about Mohammad cartoons is that it’s “blasphemous” to Muslims, as if we should place something as unimportant to us as “blaspheming” Islam above something as important to us as our freedom of expression. As if Islamic blasphemy should be any concern of those of us who don’t observe Islam. As if Islam’s prohibitions should be our prohibitions. This is one of the things that distinguishes Islam from other religions, in that it is the least live and let live religion in history. And regardless what people tell themselves about the nature of Islam, the fact that its founder was a warlord tells us all we need to know about Islam’s nature. “But there’s a verse in the Koran which tells people to live and let live!” I’m told. And then I have to inform them of Islam’s doctrine of abrogation, which is that if later verses in the Koran contradict earlier ones, then Muslims are to go with the later ones. So the later, violent passages calling for war killed whatever “peaceful” passages there were. One of the great conceits of Islam is that not only are Muslims to follow Mohammad as ‘the perfect model’, but that we all are. That’s a hostile religion that has overstepped itself, and we need to remind Muslims that Islam has no sway over us. And in this post-9/11 world, one of the most dramatic ways to show that is to draw Mohammad.
Some people have actually told me that they’re afraid to even like my social media posts, which is a terrible state for a free people to be in. And even if none of you answer the challenge and draw Mohammad, well, that’ll make a point as well. You either support Free Speech or you don’t. You cannot remain neutral when your fellow cartoonists are threatened with murder and then murdered over cartoons, no matter what you tell yourself. No matter what others tell you. And no matter if no one ever challenges you about it. You know you’ve capitulated. I’m just letting you know that I know that you have.
If you believe that you “can’t” draw Mohammad, then you’ve sold out Free Speech to its savage enemies.
You support Free Speech or you don’t.
Support Free Speech.
Draw Mohammad.
Tim Heffernan says
I fully agree with this. I just wish he had mentioned Molly Norris
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Is she the girl in Seattle?
There are many artists who won’t draw images of the Holy Prophet Mohammed, at least ones that show him in a true light. They’re thinking that it’s already been done (by Fawstin) so that’s covered, and subconsciously breathe a sigh of relief that they’re not taking a personal physical risk by drawing him.
But wait a minute, Islam is one of the biggest subjects on the planet and a highly controversial one at that. The empty palette artists are in a cohort with feminists.
Their best excuse is that the publishers wouldn’t publish such drawings even if they did create them.
Clarino says
Why do you refer to him as “the holy prophet “? He’s not holy, and at best he’s a false prophet.
It’s like Christians referring to the “holy” koran – it’s a betrayal of their own beliefs!
Westman says
You have to know APF’s writing to realize that he just didn’t bother to place quotes around the phrase and is being sarcastic about the “Holy” prophet. His moniker gives it away – pig farmer – which he is not. He often generates little “pigs” for Muslim enjoyment.
gravenimage says
True Westman. AFP *never* panders to Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–Molly Norris started “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day”–and had to go into hiding when the FBI told her they could not–or would not–protect her from Jihadists.
Norger says
An absolute DISGRACE that this could happen in America. This is what appeasement gets us.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Norger.
Mario Alexis Portella says
+1! Very good analysis!
mortimer says
The profession of editorial cartoonist is serious work no matter how humorous it may be at times. The editorial cartoonist helps us to not take ourselves so seriously and admit we can be wrong and that we are not infallible. Muslims cannot admit that they might be wrong about Mohammed being a prophet, because their whole system collapses. They follow a man who routinely had his critics murdered. Anyone who lampooned Mohammed was killed by hit men. Most of what a cartoonist does is to lampoon people.
Muslims don’t mind lampooning Jews, Americans or others who differ from their Muslim politicians, but have a thin skin whenever Muslims are lampooned even in the mildest manner. They are like the man in an anecdote told by Ronald Reagan. A certain American was arguing about the merits of democracy with a doctrinaire Soviet communist. “Listen, the American said, ‘In our system, I have the right to walk into the office of the President of the United States and say, ‘Mr.President, I disagree with your policy’, and nothing will happen to me.” The Soviet replied, “In our system also, I can walk into the office of the General Secretary of the Politburo and say, ‘General Secretary, I disagree with the policy of the American president and nothing will happen to me.”
Muslims take a position above criticism and expect you to accept their supremacism without discussion. The attitude of Islam is generally an inflated self-importance stemming from Islam’s supremacism.
Thank God for editorial cartoonists who LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD and bring inflated egos back down to earth!
If Muslims don’t develop the ability to laugh at themselves, the world is doomed.
James Lincoln says
Mortimer says,
“If Muslims don’t develop the ability to laugh at themselves, the world is doomed.”
The day that a Muslim becomes an EX-MUSLIM – is the day that he develops the ability to laugh at himself.
Norger says
Mr. Fawstin, you are not only a talented cartoonist, you are an eloquent spokesman for the West. So many excellent, insightful points here. “The only reason people are worried about pissing off Muslims is because Muslims react violently when they’re pissed off.” Yes, precisely. Burning an American flag is OK. Displaying an image of a crucifix submerged in urine is hailed as courageous, indeed worthy of federal grant money. (BTW I’m an atheist, I’m not suggesting this offends me). The NYT itself publishes blatantly anti-Semitic cartoons, with nary a whimper of protest. Apart from the ever-present specter of maniacal jihadi violence, Why should we give a rat’s ass about Islamic blasphemy laws; those laws are antithetical to the Constitution, to western values, to the enlightenment itself.
We know the MSM lacks the intestinal fortitude to publish Muhammed cartoons. One would think, however, that at a minimum, they should be willing to air thought provoking, well-written commentary on this subject, such as yours. The reality is that this—whether we have the right to draw Muhammed or to otherwise “blaspheme” Islam—is considered a subject that is not even acceptable to be DISCUSSED today in the western press, in academia or in political circles. That is just how far we have fallen, 18 years post 9/11.
Jack Holan says
This is a Man who still embodies the Old American Spirit that We All long to see on a daily basis and He grew up a Muslim and immigrated to this Country to enjoy Her Freedoms. You “Cartoonists” whom he challenges don’t you feel shamed? You Should!
Westman says
When a man had 40 acres, trees, a mule, and water he could feed his family without any concern about his personal political and religious attitudes. Now a man lives in complete dependency, denying its reality, while paying his utilities with money from an employer he must not offend.
It’s obvious that economic fear restricts the resistance to Islam’s demands in the West. The politicians fear losing power, business worries about boycotts, and the citizens fear losing the income to support a family. Yet a movement of solidarity could remove those fears, overnight, if everyone knew the real nature of Islam. Artists are not in the realm of secure employment so drawing Muhammad will involve sacrifice and difficulty.
Islam is the master of deceit, the only religion in which dishonesty is a virtue if used against unbelievers, or, to defend and promulgate the faith – Thou shall bear false witness to unbelievers whenever necessary and thou may decide when its necessary.
gravenimage says
I would post my Muhammad cartoons here–but I found that my hosting site PhotoBucket has recently removed them all, leaving the message “Whoa! This image violates our Terms of Use and has been removed from view”:
https://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/library?page=1
More crushing of freedom of speech.
Norger says
Just unbelievable. Disgusting, groveling appeasement.
gravenimage says
This is very disturbing–I had had an account with them for many years. I have still not found out how condemning pedophilia and celebrating brave Danish Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard violates their terms of use.
Apparently their terms of use are fine with child rape and threatening those who draw Mohammad.
FYI says
Can we draw buraq,muhammed’s MAGICAL WINGED FANTASY FLYING HORSE WITH A WOMAN’S HEAD AND A PEACOCK TAIL?
I mean that would hardly draw any ridicule on muhammed would it?
If muhammed insisted he had a magic horsey then who are we to doubt it?
Is it ok to depict muhammed’s black African slaves..it is just that there are sooooo many of them… and we don’t want to discriminate against muhammed the White Arab Slave Trader{sahih muslim 3901}.
Can muhammed be drawn wearing Aisha’s dress{sahih bukhari #2442}:is muhammed’s cross-dressing too much for muslims to deal with?
“When ubaydullah saw him he said’This muhammed of yours is fat and a dwarf”..[Abu Dawud 40:4731]
It seems the perfect man wasn’t all that perfect:perhaps he had inner beauty…
Can muhammed be depicted as islamic sources depict him:The Whitest Man that Ever Lived and a fat,cross-dressing dwarf with a flying fantasy horsey?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Yeah the MSM lacks the guts alright. But many of the could-be members of the political cartoonist are being gutless too. Submitting a piece with much-needed satire on Islam to publishers would severely harm or end a career.
There’s no doubt political cartoonists are AWOL, gutless, in private preferring to point to gutless publishers as the source of the problem. But they themselves are derelict in their duty. Isn’t the very reason political cartoons exist is to bring out big wrongs?
Norger says
Exactly the point of political cartoons.
I know that Robert Spencer is not a fan of Sam Harris, but Harris makes an excellent point about the Book of Mormon play on Broadway, comparing the reaction of Mormons to that of Muslims. When the Book of Mormon play came out, Mormons actually bought ad space in the playbill (“You’ve seen the play, the Book is better”). That is a gracious, even charming response to religious satire.The point is that Muslims are so hyper sensitive to perceived religious slights, AND known to act out violently, that the prospect of a “Book of Islam” play on Broadway is absolutely inconceivable; everyone KNOWS that’s not possible. .Just like drawing Muhammed is now inconceivable. Both examples of Islam imposing its collective will—making the west submit with self-enforced compliance with Islamic blasphemy laws.
Perhaps the most despicable quote ever from a US President: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”
Carl Henrik Lampe says
🙂 This smiley-face is Muhammad’s smiley-face.
Todd McDermott says
This is Mohammed from behind, naked and bowing towards Mecca __( ! )__
Westman says
“One of the great conceits of Islam is that not only are Muslims to follow Mohammad as ‘the perfect model’, but that we all are. That’s a hostile religion that has overstepped itself…”
Yes, Bosch, this is exactly why Islam is not, nor can ever be a, “religion of peace”. Islam is the bully of religions, and like a bully it chooses the weakest nations for its violence while the strong, yet frightened nations, ignore the bully; thinking the bully will be gone before it is necessary to be involved in violence and it will even be safer if it takes away the citizens ability to defend themselves.
When Islam was, “over there”, in isolated nations, it could be safely ignored. Now it is here in the West making its bully demands; even bellowing in the halls of congress with the hatreds that so readily drip from its essence. And only a few congressman stand up to it while the rest slink in silent cowardice, afraid the media, CAIR, and the SPLC will make re-election, and holding on to power and gravy train, more difficult.
Norger says
Yes, it engages in theocratic bullying ranging from “soft” claims of offense-taking (I.e.damage to the petal-delicate sensibilities of the followers of The Religion of Perpetual Outrage), to the ever-present “hard” intimidation from Islamist thugs. It is so telling that self-censorship to avoid offending Islam really has taken hold in the West.
James Pierce says
If some people don’t like the idea of drawing Mohammed, good for them. They don’t have to. He means nothing to me and I’ll draw him as many times as I want.
Angemon says
Indeed. Plenty of “but-heads” out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV9Vyht5HG4
E T says
Next it will be you may not wear that short skirt, that low cut blouse, women may not go out by themselves, you may not drink wine, you may not dance, you may not wear a bathing suit, shorts, you must walk behind your husband, all four wives. You must give up your guns.
Muslims in the West who do not like “our way of life” should go back to the Middle East and the Muslims born in the West need to decide what to follow our values or move to an Islamic country. We in the West will never submit to Islam.
I have heard many people say Bosch is only trying to cause trouble, to that I say he is trying to save your freedom.
Thank you Bosch for your courage, for fighting for our freedom. You, dear man are one of my few heroes in this life. The best to you always, Elizabeth Thorne
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, E T!
Len Eger says
I draw him every day. It’s a bit rough and sometimes I run out of ink.
Jean (old) says
The “Jesus & Mo” artist draws Mohammad regularly – or Mo, his body double, anyway. But that is a representation too:
https://www.jesusandmo.net/
gravenimage says
I hadn’t seen this site for a while. Christians are bound to get a laugh out of it–Muslims, not so much.
Naildriver says
The liberals were all about extolling the art that depicted African apartheid, and racism and also showed whites in various racist or shameful illustrations, and placing the artists in the blue chip realm of the best artists in history, yet upon the threat of murder for offending Islam or Mohammed these same people say nothing, or speak babble about how such acts incite or provoke these honest and simple Muslim folk who only want to be treated like people.
gravenimage says
My Draw Mohammad Manifesto
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Excellent manifesto! Every artist who cares about freedom of expression should draw Mohammad.
LB says
The thing with artists is that they’re, almost by definition, LIBERAL (there’s a reason it’s called Liberal Arts college), which today pretty much means they’re far left. And as we all know, the leftist PC culture decrees that they DARE NOT offend anyone (other than straight white christian males), especially muslims, lest they be painted as one or more “-ists” and “-phobics” and get excluded from mainstream art circles, which is social and career suicide for artists.
So while being liberal used to mean that they “care about freedom of expression” as you say, that is not the case today. Which is why Bosch Fawstin deserves so much praise. He sacrificed everything for his beliefs and stands entirely alone against the ongoing cultural jihad that is slowly but surely subjugating the West.
gravenimage says
LB, I’m an artist. I am liberal in some ways (in the classical sense), and hate all of the crushing of freedom under Islam. But, sadly, you are right about all too many artists today, who are *anything* but liberal.
And yes–I have the greatest respect for Bosch Fawstin, a brilliant illustrator and cartoonist who is too often ignored (or worse) by his peers, as well as threatened by Muslims.
Battle says
gavenimage hits nail on head. Good.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Battle.
Battle says
Naildriver hits nail on head. Good.
Battle says
As a compliment, I wish I could draw as good as Bosch Fawstin.
JM says
I want to buy the My Mohammed cartoon books (vols 1 and 2) but they aren’t available at Amazon and Paypal won’t accept my order for them. How can I obtain them?
gravenimage says
From Bosch Fawstin’s own site, JM:
http://fawstin.blogspot.com/
Click on his “store” icon. You don’t have to pay using Paypal–I don’t have a Paypal account myself.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “If you don’t draw Mohammad, you don’t get to say “Je Suis Charlie”.
NAILED IT.
Bernie Houston says
If I drew a picture of Moe, it would be a dick pic.
Battle says
Gravenimage: You are welcome.
gravenimage says
🙂
truffle piggy (@PiggyTruffle) says
It is not just images of mohammed. It is all human and animal depictions.
I love to make little origami cranes to give away to passers by.
I get some kind of pleasure when a muslim accepts one with joy.
gravenimage says
This is true–but Muslims are most unhinged over images of Mohammed.