Posted on 04/24/2010 9:34:28 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"
After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
Norris told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political correctness. "That's a cartoonist's job, to be non-PC."
Listen to Molly Norris on Dave Ross Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made.
"As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent about feeling afraid," Norris said.
Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.
On her website Norris explains this is not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to express themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
I haven’t seen any thread posted on this yet, but it seems that Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist that drew the Muhammad with the turban bomb, has been put on “administrative leave” by his newspaper, for his own safety, of course. Hmmm....
Dante Alighrei’s Vision of Hell, Illustrated: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8789/8789-h/images/28-259.jpg
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I’m bookmarking that one. It pretty much sums him up.
Put a turban on it and it will be a masterpiece! ;)
Seems to me that woman better hire herself a security company.
article now linked at Drudge
original ITALIAN TEXT
“Mentre che tutto in lui veder m’attacco,
guardommi, e con le man s’aperse il petto,
dicendo: ‘Or vedi com’io mi dilacco!
vedi come storpiato è Maometto!
Dinanzi a me sen va piangendo Alì,
fesso nel volto dal mento al ciuffetto.
E tutti li altri che tu vedi qui,
seminator di scandalo e di scisma
fur vivi, e però son fessi così.”
(Inferno, Canto XXVIII, vv. 28-36)
I can’t wait to see what you come up with Laz!
Very descriptive image.
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