May 20th: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!

[Xno Kappa]

I'll draw whoever the fuck I feel like, thank you very much.

[Blarg]

This is the equivalent of shoving the dog/cats face into its piss. They didn't learn from the gentle instructions so they have to learn the hard way.

[Khajit]

Ah so i get it. So because some Muslims are crazy you gotta throw shit on all of em around the world?

If any Muslim people do get angry over this it would be more because of the fact that this entire thing is so obviously based around simply insulting them and Mohamed than any declaration of free speech.

[Blarg]

Hey, the extremists drawing the dick version mohammads aren't indicative of the more moderate fruit and appliance mohammad version drawings

[Bingbong]

Ah so i get it. So because some Muslims are crazy you gotta throw shit on all of em around the world?

If any Muslim people do get angry over this it would be more because of the fact that this entire thing is so obviously based around simply insulting them and Mohamed than any declaration of free speech.

That's the best part about free speech. You can speak the most racist, bigoted, backwoods, idiotic spew your brain could muster, and not worry about retaliation from a government.

The illustrations are imo, three fold from the people that do submit them. One, to show that no religion or more importantly religious figure is above comment/ridicule/satire. Two, that people getting mad and doing violent things because their religious figure is commented on/ridiculed/satirized is pretty moronic. Third, folks don't like being bullied by anyone into censoring their "speech".

[Pirian]

Ah so i get it. So because some Muslims are crazy you gotta throw shit on all of em around the world?

If any Muslim people do get angry over this it would be more because of the fact that this entire thing is so obviously based around simply insulting them and Mohamed than any declaration of free speech.

You don't seem to get it. This came about because radical's think that they are above free speech. This thing is so obviously based around simply insulting radicals through defacing Mohammad rather than any real direct disrespect to actual Muslim's.

[Khajit]

Because drawing thier prophet as a hairy penis just isnt disrespectful at all and is the height of eloquence. Only extremist mulsims would be annoyed by people that make comments like "fuck those towelheads"(as seen in several articles on this event) mocking them in an offensive manner.

[Neoscrilla]

Would it have been more flattering if the penis was erect?

[Pirian]

Because drawing thier prophet as a hairy penis just isnt disrespectful at all and is the height of eloquence. Only extremist mulsims would be annoyed by people that make comments like "fuck those towelheads"(as seen in several articles on this event) mocking them in an offensive manner.

Because this still distracts from the point.

[Neoscrilla]

"fuck those towelheads"

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Towlie says fuck you

[Pirian]

You're a towel!

[Bingbong]

Because drawing thier prophet as a hairy penis just isnt disrespectful at all and is the height of eloquence.

No, you're right, it's incredibly disrespectful, and not eloquent at all. But why should folks try eloquence with people who retort to a disrespectful drawing with murder?

It's about pointing out how moronic and archaic it is to claim that a drawing was so disrespectful that one should have their life taken from them. Also, to point out some cowardice in that if a few people do it, then the extremists will descend but if a few thousand people do it, nobody will show their face to respond.

[Rhinox]

Ah so i get it. So because some Muslims are crazy you gotta throw shit on all of em around the world?

If any Muslim people do get angry over this it would be more because of the fact that this entire thing is so obviously based around simply insulting them and Mohamed than any declaration of free speech.

My position is you are well within your right to be offended. But when you have extremist calling for violence of such trivial shit as a depiction of Mohamed is so beyond the pale.

You didn't hear Catholics calling for a crusade and demanding the head of Producers/writers/actors in the Movie 'The Exorcist' when Linda blair started inserting a crucifix in her vagina while yelling "Fuck me jesus". did you?


The worst you get is the fact tub of lard Bill Donahue demanding a boycott.

[Khajit]

My position is you are well within your right to be offended. But when you have extremist calling for violence of such trivial shit as a depiction of Mohamed is so beyond the pale.

You didn't hear Catholics calling for a crusade and demanding the head of Producers/writers/actors in the Movie 'The Exorcist' when Linda blair started inserting a crucifix in her vagina while yelling "Fuck me jesus". did you?


The worst you get is the fact tub of lard Bill Donahue demanding a boycott.

Except I'm not questioning that the extremist groups were extreme. To carry on your analogy I'm questioning the fact that your solution to Donahue demanding a boycott is to send Christians everywhere pictures of Jesus being sodomized by a goat instead of specifically to Donahue or simply telling him to fuck off and ignoring him. Or buying more exorcist tickets.

The person who started the whole thing is distancing herself from it for a reason and it's pretty much the reasons I and others are pointing out.

[Eratosthenes]

My position is you are well within your right to be offended. But when you have extremist calling for violence of such trivial shit as a depiction of Mohamed is so beyond the pale.

You didn't hear Catholics calling for a crusade and demanding the head of Producers/writers/actors in the Movie 'The Exorcist' when Linda blair started inserting a crucifix in her vagina while yelling "Fuck me jesus". did you?


The worst you get is the fact tub of lard Bill Donahue demanding a boycott.

If you wanna piss off Catholics, steal a Eucharist and hold it hostage.

[Kuya]

Yea i thought that kid who stole the eucharist got death threats. Anyway, i wish this event really intended to make the point that people shouldn't be intimidated by some imagenary threat, i really do.

[Rhinox]

Except I'm not questioning that the extremist groups were extreme. To carry on your analogy I'm questioning the fact that your solution to Donahue demanding a boycott is to send Christians everywhere pictures of Jesus being sodomized by a goat instead of specifically to Donahue or simply telling him to fuck off and ignoring him. Or buying more exorcist tickets.

The person who started the whole thing is distancing herself from it for a reason and it's pretty much the reasons I and others are pointing out.

Pretty sure the Exorcist was a pretty popular movie around the world where millions of Christians saw that particular scene. Difference is I'm not familiar with any militant Catholics who go around murdering people they don't agree with. If you have examples in this last century please feel free to point it out to me and I'll gladly eat crow for it.

Spoiler: show

IRA doesn't really count either since they are fighting for other things other then Religion.

[Plow]

Ah so i get it. So because some Muslims are crazy you gotta throw shit on all of em around the world?

If any Muslim people do get angry over this it would be more because of the fact that this entire thing is so obviously based around simply insulting them and Mohamed than any declaration of free speech.

It's about the *right* to insult them.

You can't make things better if talking about what's wrong with them is dangerous.


You don't think there were people insulting the living shit out of the "founding fathers"?

And you don't realize that a part of what made them such great figures in history is that they stood up to defend the rights of those people who were speaking out against them?

[Plow]

Pretty sure the Exorcist was a pretty popular movie around the world where millions of Christians saw that particular scene. Difference is I'm not familiar with any militant Catholics who go around murdering people they don't agree with. If you have examples in this last century please feel free to point it out to me and I'll gladly eat crow for it.

Spoiler: show

IRA doesn't really count either since they are fighting for other things other then Religion.

Dr. Tiller would like to speak to you.


But, well, he's dead and all.

[BerenTebogo]

Yea i thought that kid who stole the eucharist got death threats. Anyway, i wish this event really intended to make the point that people shouldn't be intimidated by some imagenary threat, i really do.

Wait, what? My cousin and I stole a whole jar of yummy Christ crackers from a church when we were younger (like 8 and 12) and walked all around Dorchester eating them.

Hope nobody sends me a mail bomb.