Posted on 05/20/2010 7:22:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Today, bloggers around the world will participate in a protest against terrorists by drawing cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Everyone Draw Mohammed Day started when terrorist threats against Comedy Central pushed its executives to heavily censor an episode of South Park, which still cannot be seen on the South Park Studios website. It got off to an inauspicious start, though, when its creator backed out of the event, citing concerns about being overly provocative.
That’s a good point to consider, especially if one goal of the war on terror is to push an Enlightenment of sorts onto global Islam. A “hearts and minds” campaign, as we discovered in Vietnam, requires some sympathy and understanding of the entire community. If we’re insulting a broad class of Muslims by celebrating what appears to be a heresy in their eyes, we’re pushing them closer to the radicals and not isolating the terrorists. Given the images being celebrated on Facebook’s EDMD page, it won’t be too difficult to see this as an attack on their religion altogether.
On the other hand — and this is where my sympathies lie — a free society has to have the ability to offend as part and parcel of the freedom of expression. To acquiesce to the pressure that cowed Comedy Central is to surrender that freedom and to make terrorism a successful strategy, and not just for radical Islam. A nation of laws provides its citizens freedom from vendettas, and where vendettas succeed, freedom is diminished or lost altogether. That is why it is always un-American to seek political change through violence and terrorism, because it cuts against the fabric of what makes us Americans. In order to stand against the vendetta mentality, we need to make a statement that we will not be cowed into silence and surrender, whether that’s defined as dhimmitude, omerta, or whatever.
My good friend Chris Muir has what I believe may be the most thoughtful entry for EDMD. It’s a good theme for EDMD as a sort of Rohrshach test. What you read into it depends entirely on you. Is this Mohammed? A butterfly?
What do you think of EDMD? Take the poll:
It should have been everyone draw Jesus praying with Muhammed day
It should be “everybody draw Mo’ ham id Century”.
We can't even get "everyone" to not go to work for one day, or don't buy gas or ... whatever.
It is.
I don’t have a scanner or talent or anything.
I picture Mikey Moore in a beard and turbin with the title:
Moo-Ham-Egg
I always wonder about those “unsure” people. They must have applesauce where there brains should be.
I think “Take a Picture of Mohammad to Your Gun Range” is a better idea.
A brown circle.
I think it’s a great idea, only I can’t draw. Anoreth would do it if she were here.
Muhammed is a 1400 year old scam artist, thug, thief and pedophile. The “religion” he created demands that anyone with the audacity to not worship him must be killed and all of their property stolen. Could there possibly be a more fitting HERO for those who strap bombs about themselves in order to murder innocent people?
I think everybody draw Mohammad day is a great idea as it shows the hypocrisy of some western countries that have no problem with any satire or even denigration of Christianity, but quiver in their boots if anyone in Islam is remotely offended by anything. What makes us strong is toleration and individual liberty. and what better way to show it than simply to draw Mohammad.
I didn’t have a drawing. But I created a sculpture, only I flushed it before I got a picture.
Sure, just draw the devil in the red suit caricature and you’ll be right on target for the EVIL, Islam represents.
Its a great idea!.....
7,577 Fan Photos so far:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425?v=photos
Enjoy!
Well done!
Yes, exercise your freedom of speech and demand $40,000 from the NEA who funded Piss Christ.
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