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Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"

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Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"

Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.com

By JAMIE GRISWOLD
MyNorthwest.com

Excerpt: 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."

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.

Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.com

:bravo:
 
You can't win. If you fight Parker and Stone, they become more powerful.
 
You can't win. If you fight Parker and Stone, they become more powerful.
Left behind in all of this of course is Babs.........
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I'm all for freedom of speech and I won't say they shouldn't do this or not be allowed to do this. But doing something just to piss some people off is still kind of a dick move in my eyes. And at the very least not productive
 
Guess it would be fine to have a "piss on the bible" day too... where people actually piss on the bible.
 
I'm all for freedom of speech and I won't say they shouldn't do this or not be allowed to do this. But doing something just to piss some people off is still kind of a dick move in my eyes. And at the very least not productive
Yeah you are probably right. Christians and Catholics are safe for satire ad nauseam decade after decade, but.............;)

Guess it would be fine to have a "piss on the bible" day too... where people actually piss on the bible.
You are a decade or so too late, both "urine" Christ and "fecal" Christ already dawned.
 
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Cartoons are the lowest form of comedy. One notch bellow Carrot-Top.
 
You are a decade or so too late, both "urine" Christ and "fecal" Christ already dawned.

As has drawing Mohammed.. been done for the last 1500 years in and out of the Muslim world. This is nothing but reactionary crap from both sides. On the muslim side it is to gain more political traction against the "enemies" of whoever is trying to get political power, and in the west it is nothing more in the never ending "our religion is superior to yours" crap being propagated by the Christian church and its supporters.

In the end it is all a load of crap.
 
I understand her motivation - freedom of ideas and freedom of the press - and I embrace these freedoms. But I also think that sinking to this level is rude, crude, unnecessary, and counterproductive. Islamophobia is just as ugly as anti-Semitism.
 
As has drawing Mohammed.. been done for the last 1500 years in and out of the Muslim world. This is nothing but reactionary crap from both sides. On the muslim side it is to gain more political traction against the "enemies" of whoever is trying to get political power, and in the west it is nothing more in the never ending "our religion is superior to yours" crap being propagated by the Christian church and its supporters.

In the end it is all a load of crap.

Where are you coming up with this stuff? This fantasy of "our religion is superior to yours" in the cartoonists who drew Mohammad in Europe....where was that message anywhere in those drawings?

You are just making up reactions to satisfy your liberal thought process when no one else has made those conclusions except for the Islamic terrorists themselves.
 
i think this cartoonist should draw a cartoon of mohammed and jesus having sex with each other, and see who gets the most offended
 
Guess it would be fine to have a "piss on the bible" day too... where people actually piss on the bible.


Difference being that no one gets death threats for pissing on the Bible. They might get a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts (if someone calls it art) :lol:
 
i think this cartoonist should draw a cartoon of mohammed and jesus having sex with each other, and see who gets the most offended

I think you know which religious group would be rioting in the streets, burning effigies, and issuing death threats, eh???:2razz:
 
Difference being that no one gets death threats for pissing on the Bible. They might get a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts (if someone calls it art) :lol:

No it is just rarely news worthy that is all. Christian fundies are no different than their Muslim counterparts. They murder, attack and threaten people who they believe are going against gods word. They protest defacing of the bible and send threats. I remember the Jerry Springer show play in London.. man they went nuts over that. Death threats, legal action and so on.

I mean have you heard of the death threats against Elton John by Christian fundies? Or the death threats abortion doctors receive on a weekly if not daily basis? Of course not, it is not politically correct to plaster such things all over the news, where as a Muslim giving a death threat against someone is first page news often!
 
I understand her motivation - freedom of ideas and freedom of the press - and I embrace these freedoms. But I also think that sinking to this level is rude, crude, unnecessary, and counterproductive. Islamophobia is just as ugly as anti-Semitism.

I don't see this as Islamophobia.

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On her website Norris explains this is not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to express themselves.

Comedy many times is irreverent. Even if Mel Brooks wasn't Jewish, it would have been just as funny if anyone would have done the "I present you the fifteen... *crash*....ten, TEN commandments". That wasn't anti-Semetic.

Dogma was another comedy that challenged the dogma of the Catholic Church. It wasn't saying that all Catholics should be exterminated.
 
Belief systems are voluntary. In the case of Islam. it may not SEEM voluntary for hundreds of millions of its adherents, but it is voluntary nevertheless. As such, it should be open to inspection just like any other belief system. The fact that so many adherents of Islam are outraged by so many things, and spurred to great attrocities because of their outrage only indicates that much of the structure of the religion is totalitarian in nature. That is why this particular belief system needs to be resisted -- because it allows for no other.

I, for one, do not consider the resistance of a totalitarian belief system to be the stuff of bigotry, even if it is too often portrayed as such. It is quite a different matter than being prejudiced against a person because of their ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender, and for the exact reason that the belief system IS entirely voluntary, whereas race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation are not.
 
. Islamophobia is just as ugly as anti-Semitism.

But one involved a religion chosen by the adherent and the other involves fixed ethnicity. Antisemitism is expressed in very predictable ways that have little, if anything to do with the religion of Judaism. Instead, the attacks have to do with such matters as undue control, manipulativeness, questions of loyalty, behind the scenes shenanigans, and the usual repetoire of canards in addition to the singling out of Jewish people for the sorts of attacks not levelled against any other. It's not what you believe that is in question, especially inasmuch as precious few Jews are religious fundamentalists. It is who you are that is the issue, and so I don't think you can really compare the two. Certainly, there exists bigotry against Muslim people, but since not all Muslims would express outrage if Mohammad were drawn in a cartoon, the issue here is one of a belief system and not a people.
 
Guess it would be fine to have a "piss on the bible" day too... where people actually piss on the bible.

How can you equate pissing on the bible to drawing a cartoon of mohammad?

And besides artist continuly make fun at christianity for example; Virgin Mary painting with dung & and Piss Christ. Where are the death threats and riots in the streets from angry christians?

Check out these anti christian sites. some sell anti christian art.

Anti Christian Posters, Prints and Anti Christian Art

The Antichristian Phenomenon

Anti Christian Gifts, T-shirts, Stickers and more - CafePress
 
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I understand her motivation - freedom of ideas and freedom of the press - and I embrace these freedoms. But I also think that sinking to this level is rude, crude, unnecessary, and counterproductive. Islamophobia is just as ugly as anti-Semitism.
I agree if we're speaking about hatred towards the Jewish religion and Jewish believers.

I do not see, however, the hatred towards people that is based on their belief - on what they choose to believe in - the same as hatred towards people based on their ethnicity/race - something that they are born into.

That being said, both are obviously wrong, disgusting and repulsive.
 
Using the "I gotta right to do it" card, doesn't change the simple fact that it's an irresponsible way to act. I fail to see how deliberately enraging people, regardless of who they are, is a positive. Having the "right" to do something, doesn't necessarily make what you do "right."
 
As has drawing Mohammed.. been done for the last 1500 years in and out of the Muslim world. This is nothing but reactionary crap from both sides. On the muslim side it is to gain more political traction against the "enemies" of whoever is trying to get political power, and in the west it is nothing more in the never ending "our religion is superior to yours" crap being propagated by the Christian church and its supporters.

In the end it is all a load of crap.

Funny that the West has a sizeable amount of agnostics/atheists. Making this a CHristian vs. Muslim thing is intellectually dishonest at best.

It's all about freedom of speech. We're not about to let some radicals change our way of life.
 
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Funny that the West has a sizeable amount of agnostics/atheists. Making this a CHristian vs. Muslim thing is intellectually dishonest at best.

Only ones doing that are people like you and other right wingers in the US and Europe and of course those in the two religions who are fanatics. This is not and never has been a Christian vs Muslim thing, and yet every time such a subject is brought up here on the boards, it is always "Muslims are evil, Christians are good" or/and "we are better than them".. and that is us vs them, Christians vs Muslims.

It's all about freedom of speech.

yes it is, that we can agree on. Funny how you did not protest against the Christian radicals that attempted (and succeed some what) to stop a play in the UK that they had deemed was blasphemous. Death threats were used as well as threats of violence. It is funny how the right likes to be the "defender of free speech" but when they are in power free speech is the first to go out the window... the irony.

We're not about to let some radicals change our way of life.

Oh? Ever looked at what is happening in your own back yard?
 
I'm all for freedom of speech and I won't say they shouldn't do this or not be allowed to do this. But doing something just to piss some people off is still kind of a dick move in my eyes. And at the very least not productive

Actually, it is productive. It teaches a lesson about western society...you don't dictate terms to us about what can be drawn, written about, photographed, discussed, or openly debated.

In this case, a few backward ass religious lunatics want to tell everyone else how to behave. They need to learn that these stone age tactics will not work.
 
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