Why events like the Mohammad Cartoon Contest are important

newsmachete ^ | 5/4/2015

[upchuck]

By now you've heard about the two shooters who attacked the Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas. They shot one guard and then were killed themselves.

The raging debate is: is the contest an important demonstration of free speech, or a needless provocation against the Muslim religion? After all, we wouldn't defend a contest that made fun of Christianity, or a contest that made fun of Judaism, would we?

In actuality, of course, Christianity and Judaism are ridiculed non-stop, 24/7. Movies, books, and the media portray Christians as nutjobs, perverts, and radicals. Anti-Semitism loosely disguised as anti-Israel rhetoric has become quite fashionable in Europe and is starting to find a place in American college campuses as well. And yet no one is killed for attacking Christianity or Judaism, because, on the whole, 99.99% of Jews and Christians are very tolerent people.

I wish I could say the same about all Muslims. A substantial minority of them are extremely intolerant. They have their own religous rules, but seem to think the rest of us, who are not in their religion, should follow them as well... or be killed. If nearly all Muslims were peaceloving I would be the first to say that this contest would be an offensive provocation. But because they insist on killing us for not following their rules, I think we need contests like this to show that we will not be cowed and that we are not subject to their rules.

Here's something that may surprise you: many Muslims have no problems with depictions of the Prophet Mohammad, and don't consider it offensive at all. There are two main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shi'ite. Shi'ites generally have no problem with images or drawings of Mohammad, and depictions of Mohammad among Shi'ites are actually quite common! It's only Sunnis, some Sunnis, who have a problem with it. So the world is expected to acccomodate the desires not of a billion Muslims, but merely one faction of a faction of the Islamic religion.

It's not just about cartoons, of course. If Western society caves on this, how long before we are threatened with death sentences if we criticize a particular Ayatollah? Or if we criticize a particular rule among some practicioners of Islam, such as female genital mutilation, or the requirements to wear a burka? You may think, "It's simple, just don't draw Muhammad." But it doesn't end there, the intimidation merely begins there, if you let it.

This dispute over cartoons is also symbolic of the larger authoritarian personality of radical Islam. In the Middle East, and parts of Africa, if they catch you and you are a Christian, Jew, or the wrong kind of Muslim, you die. In Europe right now large gangs of Muslims are systematically hunting down and killing Jews. And this is still while they are in the minority in Europe.

I'm sure those who say that they find such contests needlessly offensive are never offended by the riots in Baltimore or in Oakland or Ferguson. When most Muslims can reach the point where they say, "We disagree with this, but we aren't going to show up with guns to shoot you," when they stop hunting down and killing people of other religions, then I will say the time for such cartoon contests are past, but not until then.

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Thoughts?

[HarleyLady27]

We are in America...in America we have a Constitution and it gives us the ‘right of speech’ per say....

If the mu slims that live in Our Country don't like how we live in Our Country, they are VERY welcome to LEAVE...

WE also have the right to worship however WE want to, its also in the Constitution, so if their “god” is different, then they are given the privilege to believe in their ‘god’ as we are ours....

So my advise to all mu slims, if you don't like it, pull up your panties and leave to find a country you can do whatever it is you do, besides try to kill people that don't believe like you do!

[Dqban22]

In January 17,2015, and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a pro-Shariah law event, by supporters Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicate in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 2003. I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if some patriotic American had irrupted in Muslim rally on January 2015 and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive, a real grievance more justified than the alleged offense provoked among the Islamic fanatics by the Mohamed cartoons.

[upchuck]

Amen! Well said.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

We need more events such as this to flush out the enemy so they can be destroyed.

[bigbob]

One event, two fewer jihadis. It’s a start.

We just need to amp up the ratio.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The God of Christianity and Judaism is a powerful deity that cannot be harmed by human words or actions, nor can he be insulted by a mortal. The God of Islam is weak, and requires continual defending at the hands of his votaries.

[dp0622]

Can we have a national FR mohammedically insane drawing day across the country :)

[Big Red Badger]

I’d like to see a weekly event with
Pork chop Hop dancing,
piggy Back Rides for the Kids ,
pulled pork BBQ and
Muhammad Cartoon Contest!

Infidels Rule !

[Travis McGee]

I made this from two previous cartoons. It's my contribution to the images and thoughts and thought crimes war we are presently engaged in.

I like to make memes, because let's face it, "readers" (meaning, us) are a dying breed and we are of no matter to the rising millennial generation. We are all here on FR and like places in the choir preaching to one another; it doesn't move the ball down the field. But from observing the actual behavior of young people, glued to screens, I have the theory that you can reach them with a message if you flash a cool image plus witty text in front of their eyeballs for a few seconds. Meme and youtube war may, I think, matter more than our writing comments to one another, which I view as a pure pleasure.

[realcleanguy]

Mohammed was a man, flesh and blood, and he died. He’s dead. His flesh has rotted. In perspective, worldly people have made fun of Jesus, Moses, Noah, Abraham, David, Isaiah, Paul, and Job, far greater men than Muhammad. You see, Muhammad was the opposite of all these men. Muhammad worships the world, lived for his fleshly desires, killed to possess, and indulged in his sexual desires. His followers have killed more than most “civilizations”. with the exception of the Chinese Dynasties and Hitler and Stalin. And when ignorant liberals bring up the Crusades, they discount Polpot, Mao, Edi Amin, and many others who killed far more than the Crusades did. And the Crusades accounted for a small time frame in history. Islams 1400 year war against civilization has never stopped. So Muhammad deserves the cartoons. His Clowns still follow him

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

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HOW DO YOU GET RID OF ISLAM..?..
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LAUGHTER.......
There is much humor in the Quran and Haddiths..

MoMo himself is an outright comedian....
And Sheiks of any stripe provide stand up..

[RaceBannon]

this thought is quite related:

Written in 2010:

What the Koran burning in Florida and World Trade Center mosque controversy is really all about.
September 11, 2010 at 10:28pm
The problems with the Koran burning and the WTC Mosque

In all this argument of recent days, the most important fact of the matter has been obvious from the start, but is rarely spoken of by the media or the public....Regarding the Florida Koran burning, has anyone stepped back and listened to what people are saying in detail? The first thing a person will hear is how that Pastor has the Constitutional right to do what he is doing.

The next series of statements, however, are always the majority of statements made in these conversations, namely: It is the wrong thing to do, it is inciteful, it is a cult in Florida, Muslims will hate us, it will endanger the troops, and, most importantly for this conversation: we are not at war against a religion, but extremists of that religion.

This is important because of the Islamic world’s reaction to this Florida Pastor; namely, that the Islamic world immediately protested the planned Koran burning by condemning the entire country of the United States and marched and chanted promoting our deaths to cries of
“DEATH TO AMERICA!”

The response by virtually all American politicians has been an apologetic tone, one where they immediately call for the Koran burning to stop, observations that it IS inciteful and that the threats to Americans at home and American Troops abroad are not acceptable and
that the safety of the American public are paramount in this case.

Their tone has been to cower in fear at these threats. Not one politician has stepped forward and exclaimed, “Islam is not being attacked by an entire country or an entire religion, Islam is only being attacked by a radical. Islam needs to remember we are not all against Islam and threats to our safety are wrong and inciteful and hate filled.”

Not one. They cower to the Islamic world, refuse to hold them to the same standard of behavior as they insist from their own people, refuse to insist that the Pastor in Florida is an anomaly and that the United States is no threat to Islam. What they did was bow in submission to the sensitivities of the Islamic world and deny the Florida Pastor his civil rights to speak out like an American.

The Islamic world will not notice. They will riot anyways. It is identical to the cartoonists in Denmark. All it took was one cartoonist to make a cartoon of Muhammed and the entire Islamic world was in the streets and threatening to kill anyone who makes a cartoon of Muhammed.

Theo Van Gogh made a movie about this Islamic submission in Holland, and they killed him for making the movie.

The Florida Koran burning case is quite similar to the Ground Zero Mosque case with some differences. In Florida, the Pastor must stop his Koran burning or there will be violence across the globe, and in fact, even if he does stop, there will be violence across the globe due to him stating he wanted to burn Korans. In New York City, the Imam who wants to build a Mosque 2 blocks away from Ground Zero, he said on CNN that if we move the Mosque or deny it’s construction, there will be violence across the globe.

In both cases, if we do not submit to Islamic sensitivities, there will be violence across the globe, in fact, even if we do submit to Islamic sensitivities, there will most likely be violence anyways due to the fact that we spoke of those things. Free speech is threatened in Florida, and a new twist is happening in New York City, something that Israel has seen does not work, and that is LAND FOR PEACE.

The Ground Zero mosque is about LAND FOR PEACE. If we give Islam the land to make a mosque, there will be peace. If we do not give
Islam the land, there will be violence. Think this through people. In both of these cases, neither has anything to do with the original concerns people expressed. It is solely about whether we submit to Islamic sensitivities or have violence.

It is about Islamic blackmail of the United States.

[ctdonath2]

Because when politeness is interpreted as submission, the only viable option is belligerence.

[FreedomPoster]

>>This dispute over cartoons is also symbolic of the larger authoritarian personality of radical Islam.

There is only Islam. The qualifier “radical” is superfluous.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Some years ago, small town police departments in rural America realized that they could troll pedophiles on the Internet, who would travel to their small town just to become major felony arrests. So over the course of a few years, a department of only half a dozen officers could take a dozen extremely dangerous offenders off the street, which impressed everyone.

So why not do this with Islamist terrorists? Set up what amounts to an ambush, so that when they come, with intent to murder innocent people, they instead find themselves downrange of a scoped deer rifle. Or several.

It might take some finesse on the Internet, but in the final analysis, since they have decided to murder, it should be no surprise that they die of the sword as well.

Unlike pedophiles, there really isn’t much reason to make a fuss about jihadists. If they end up as wild boar food, well, that’s just tough. Sometimes it is just better that such monsters disappear.

[trebb]

Kill all the sunnis and see if things straighten out?

[upchuck]

Hey, there’s an idea.