Can’t wait to draw ole Mohammed myself. Might even post it in my art gallery in Deviant Art.com. That is why I decided to make a post about this article and what it really represents – Freedom! Freedom from nutcases who think their religion is better than anybody else’s religion and if you disagree with their world view; they want to chop your head off! Please read the entire article with the link posted down in the Ref section.
Quote: 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.” end quote.
This all started when Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after some stupid radical Muslim group warned that the producers of South Park could be killed for insulting the Prophet Mohammad. This supposed group, while saying that they were not threatening Trey Parker and Matt Stone – somehow managed to include a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004.
Final quote of that article:
“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. end quote.
I’ll say in fake British accent, “Jolly good show there.” For far too long, the rest of the Western World – in order not to appear “judgemental”, or racist; bent itself into a pretzel to be nice to the Muslim world and all that got for our efforts is more of our citizens getting death threats for not converting over to Islam! Or of getting their heads cut off, etc. This Bovine byproduct has got to stop. Its time that so-called ‘moderate Muslim’s to discover their balls and start fighting back against the fascists that have taken over their religion!
UPDATE September 18, 2010: In the Seattle Weekly on September 15, 2010; came this bit of news. Quote: You may have noticed that Molly Norris‘ comic is not in the paper this week. That’s because there is no more Molly.
The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, “going ghost”: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It’s all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” cartoon. End Quote. Use the link below for the rest of the article.
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Ref . by Jamie Griswold for MyNorthwest.com (http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=313170).
