May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’

Hatter The Mad · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:16

After a Seattle artist's cartoon went viral, she says she's not going with it.

Molly Norris drew up a sketch declaring May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" after Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group.

Norris explained her motivation on an appearance on KIRO Radio's Dave Ross show. "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."

I think it is brilliant.

Producers of South Park had announced 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.

SkeeterUK · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:17

norris hmm related to chuck maybe?

Angleboy · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:28

All religion should banned.

alex24 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:31

^^An amazingly balanced and well thought out viewpoint... :rolleyes:

bloodiedathame · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:32

Hit Islam with the ban hammer?

jp_bl_68 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:32

Hatter The Mad said:
I think it is brilliant.

Me too. You should change the thread title to:

*****Official First Annual 'Draw Mohammed Day' Thread*****

Aedus · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:33

Religion is everything that is wrong with the world.

chrisxuk · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:33

It's a shame I can't draw

bloodiedathame · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:33

Can I draw Mohammed now please?

Angleboy · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:38

alexhull24 said:
^^An amazingly balanced and well thought out viewpoint...

actually, yes, it is a very well thought out viewpoint.

Instead of just resulting to pointless, sarcasm, maybe you should offer some challenge to my statement?

Greenlizard0 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:39

So people felt that Mohammed was insulted and therefore it was cut, stupid in my opinion but hey ho... So she wants in response, everybody to draw Mohammed? That doesn't quite make sense.

chrisxuk · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:40

Angleboy said:
actually, yes, it is a very well thought out viewpoint.

Instead of just resulting to pointless, sarcasm, maybe you should offer some challenge to my statement?

Quite. After all, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

alex24 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:41

Do you think banning religion will actually help anything? Who's in a position of authority to do such a thing? Religion causes a lot of issues but you can't simply ban it, that's just stupid.

RopAyy · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:42

Yea how am i ment to wait until the 20th may????

Can we not have a 'Draw Mohammed now' and then have a competition or vote on or around the 20th to select the top drawings for all to view? haha
Or can we just start now until the 20th just add a few rules and keep it sort of tactful?
It could be an amusing thread after all....
Just ideas..

Angleboy · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:44

Well yes, simply instituting a "Ban" wouldnt go down very well.

But removing all religion from humanity is a good long term goal.

jp_bl_68 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:47

Aedus said:
Religion is everything that is wrong with the world.

People say that but religion and the church have played an important part in education, the arts, healthcare for centuries. It's not all holy war and paedophilia.

SB118 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:47

Well it'll be a good idea to buy up anything she's done so far.

The prices are bound to sky rocket once the muzzies kill her.

alex24 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:48

Wouldn't go down very well is a teeny understatement.

One could argue that as humanity develops it may well remove religion from itself. Your statement suggests there's an outside force that can remove it, we're all part of it actually.

Who's to say that differences in beliefs beyond the loss of religion won't lead to further problems though? Perhaps religion is just a scapegoat for the failings of man in the eyes of non-believers?

RopAyy · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:48

Angleboy said:
Well yes, simply instituting a "Ban" wouldnt go down very well.

But removing all religion from humanity is a good long term goal.

Im inclined to agree on the most part i find it a little un easy that theres a few religion/cults out there that have way too much power and influence over way too many believers....
But in counter to that i suppose religion does give a lot of people peace of mind and a way to deal with dark times.
IMO people would co exist much better without religion causing so much friction.

Yas786 · 26 Apr 2010 at 15:49

alexhull24 said:
^^An amazingly balanced and well thought out viewpoint...

LOL took the words right out of my mouth...