Seattle cartoonist: May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, April 24, 2010 12:47 EST
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UPDATE: The Seattle cartoonist characterized as leading a movement against Comedy Central censorship says she didn’t mean for her cartoon to go viral or “be the focus of any group.”

In a statement, she said, “I make cartoons about current, cultural events. I made a cartoon of a ‘poster’ entitled “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” with a nonexistent group’s name — Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor — drawn on the cartoon also. I did not intend for my cartoon to go viral. I did not intend to be the focus of any ‘group’. I practice the first amendment by drawing what I wish. This particular cartoon of a ‘poster’ seems to have struck a gigantic nerve, something I was totally unprepared for. I am going back to the drawing table now!”

As a snarky response to Muslim bloggers who “warned” Comedy Central about an episode of South Park showing the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bear suit, one Seattle cartoonist, who calls laughter her form of “prayer,” is asking artists all over the world to create depictions of Mohammed on May 20. A Facebook page has been set up to cache the images for all to see.

Speaking on a Seattle radio show on Friday, cartoonist Molly Norris said she announced her idea as a way of countering the fear exhibited by Comedy Central in censoring episode 201 of South Park.

At the South Park Studios website, a message was posted that notes, “After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show.”

The New York-based Revolution Muslim group’s Web site was largely unavailable Wednesday but a CNN report said the statement was posted alongside a graphic photo of slain Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam in 2004.

“In the 14 years we’ve been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn’t stand behind,” outh Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote on their Web site. “We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn’t some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle’s customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn’t mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We’ll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we’ll see what happens to it.”

“We have to warn [South Park creators] Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show,” the group said. “This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality that will likely happen to them.”

A spokesman for the group denied the statement was an incitement to violence.

The New York Police Department has since stepped up security at Comedy Central headquarters.

“I wanna water down the targets,” Norris said. “I haven’t really organized it yet. I posted it on Facebook and I have gotten a couple drawings of Mohammed. I guess I gotta follow through and put them on a deck of cards or something.”

“As a cartoonist, I felt so much passion about what’s happened and I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central’s message that they sent about being afraid,” Norris continued. “That’s a cartoonist’s job, is to be non-PC.”

In a statement to RAW STORY, Norris said she did not personally start either of large and growing Facebook groups on either side of the debate, but she did post her art to her personal page.

“I made a fictional poster and the information on it is also fictional,” she said. “There is no Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor, etc. Although, I love the idea.”

On her blog, Midnight Corndog, she further explains her motivations:

I really hope this sort of creative expression brings ALL people of our country together in dialogue. I am personally afraid of Muslims because the peaceful folks of that religion do not often come forward to differentiate themselves from any radical elements! I mean, if I do not hear from moderate Muslims then how am I supposed to KNOW that they, too, are not harboring ill intent toward non-Muslims?! Please if you are a non-radical Muslim tell people about yourselves. Write to newspapers. Have community round tables. When Americans don’t know what you really think or feel, we might stay mired in stereotypes. Offer us knowledge!

The post URL ends with, “please-send-drawings-of-any-religious-figure-by-may-20,” though her other mentions of the idea solely focus on the Prophet Mohammed.

In a July, 2009 special to The Seattle Times, writer Rachel Shimp described Norris’s work as carrying “[a] distinctly ‘Seattle’ identity-complex,” that “imagines what’s really going on behind the computer screens in coffee shops, or in the crowds at art galleries.”

“Norris seems fascinated, as any restaurant server or cabdriver might, by the subtexts beneath cordiality,” she wrote. “Consumerism is another favorite topic.”

“I make people laugh and I think laughter is prayer,” she told the Seattle city council’s news service. Norris’s regular strip, “Everyone is a Critic,” is published by City Arts magazine.

Her cartoon announcing “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” is below. More of Norris’s work can be viewed on her Web sites, here and here.

This story was updated from a prior version to clarify that Ms. Norris was not directly responsible for creating any Facebook groups related to the May 20 “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • TaterSalad

    Obama is a pure hypocrit. He and his cronies have just announced that they have now started there 2012 campaign for the re-election of the President, yet he makes a remark like this one. It really doesn’t matter anyhow becasue Zero is a one term President.

  • Chris

    If you read over a lot of this health bill it’s very scary the favoritism that is played. Myself I dont care if McCain or Obama is president but mistake one. The process wasn’t shown to the public like was promised. to me this bill has to many hidden agendas. As Obama said “Many people have worked lots of hours to put this together” So sorry it your job deal with it, and start again and do it right this time.

  • dan

    it is the best health care but what good is it when most people can access it?
    perhaps free market is not always the best solution especially with health care.

  • dan

    *correction “can’t access”

  • Anonymous

    FYI no one pays attention to what bitter old men have to say. And even less attention is given to people that spell at a third grade level.

  • Anonymous

    Do you seriously believe that “most people” can’t access our health care system? you are not researching the facts and are following the talking points of the left. about 250 million have insurance while 45 do not. Now that number is way too high (45) as access should be easier but 250 is well above 45.

    The fact is change has to happen but expanding government and adding to the deficit to fund an already broken system (American health care) is not the solution. the system has to be changed from the ground up.

  • DNA

    The Republican Party has turned into America’s bitter old grampa. He bitches and complains about EVERYTHING, doesn’t get off his butt to help, either out of laziness or being too sick and old. Everyone hates being around him because they feel exhausted after just one afternoon of his old-man griping. We either need to put the GOP in a old-folk’s home or just pull the plug now.

  • BlahIt’sHopless

    I love watching the new tickers on fox, it’s nearly exactly like reading the opinion section of a paper. It is soo shameful I don’t understand how it is even possible. A continuous scrawl of opinionated “new” just like talking to a republican, it’s written in total conversational form. but I guess we all already new that fox really never was a “news” oriented show.

  • Pilgrims and idiot

    Typical Democratic fashion? hahahaha how silly you are, I don’t understand you’re logic or precedent. I guarantee you don’t have anything to back that up with, and it’s not a party specific generalization you idiot.

  • blah

    wow news I guess Im just an illiterate dem

  • Don

    What guarantee do I have that revisionist historians didn’t distort the truth? I meant what I said only because the words in the pledge speak sense to me, both reasonably and intuitively if you bother at all to see the meaning of them. I think people get caught up on the literal words they used, but they connote a more poetic or symbolic sense of meaning. It’s not meant to be something serious.

  • Don

    The term socialist has different applications, when you say ‘Christian socialist’ the emphasis there falls on the ‘Christian’ part of the phrase, not that he was socialist. Based on the words of the POA, it is evident to me that the words are compatible with upholding the best interests of a free country in the world, so I do not believe there is any anti-american sentiment expressed in the Pledge, in those days or today, or reason to suspect that there is an element of socialism in the POA.

  • http://diggchina.blogspot.com/ Kathy

    As a high school teacher during the Viet Nam war, I was assigned to supervise a home room. The school evaluated teachers on their “leadership” abilities. It was also a time of budget problems, and teacher lawoffs were always a concern. pressure was put on teachers to “make” the “teens,” say the pledge, standing, with hand on chest, in concert with the PA. This was my very first assignment as a homeroom teacher.

    When I arrived at the homeroom, the “kids” were sitting on the desks, lolloling in the hall, just outside the door, and lounging in the window spaces. When the announcements came on, and the pledge began, there was NO reaction from the students. It was as thoygh I was not there and there was no PA.

    After several days of this, I arrived at homeroom one morning, and had a brief chat wioth my students about how to really protest, and how to get their concerns actually heard. I explained that the pledge could be seen as an act of defiance. Thst is was at once both historic and curent, and they could make it theirs. The following day all the students, defiantly stood and said the pledge. This went on for a few days, when I was called into the Vice Priniclas office. he wanted to know what I threatened the “children” with, because is was against school policy to pressure kids to say the pledge. I informed him that I though it was their choice to either say the pledge or not. For the next couple of weeks my homeroom, the only one where the kids said the pledge was observed by other teachers, and the talk of the teachers room.

    Let Freedom Ring

  • http://www.LewRockwell.com/ Steve Smith

    Thank you, young lady, whoever you are. I too refuse to pledge my allegiance to a fabric flag; criminal gang (gov’t); or the idea of an “indivisible” Lincolnian nation. An after all of the intimidation, embarrassment, and stress this young lady has faced, at most, she will get an “apology”. A forced apology, nonetheless, and not one that is sincere at all. The teacher will get wrist slapped, business will continue, and this girl’s mother will be expected to keep on paying her property taxes-or else! Nothing to see here “citizens”, WE have taken care of the problem. Now pay “your” property taxes or we’ll send our Sheriff to levy your house. Oh, and by the way, the officers are just “doing their job”, so they are good, brave, honorable men.

  • Jhoffa_
  • Ian

    Sounds like a good idea to me! For those who attack others who have a differing belief, whether it's about religion or sexuality, etc., are almost always THEMSELVES unsure and extremely insecure as to their own belief structure.

  • FreeSpeecher

    Love this idea! But you can also express your disapproval of chilling free speech with death threats under the guise of religious freedom by contacting the hosting site of the blog.
    Google blogger is hosting this hate filled diatribe. Perhaps these death threats and chilling of free speech should be stopped. You can let Google know that you think this is hate speech by going to:

    http://revolutionmuslim.blogspot.com/

    Click on Report Abuse and follow the prompts.

  • FreeSpeecher

    Love this idea! But you can also express your disapproval of chilling free speech with death threats under the guise of religious freedom by contacting the hosting site of the blog.
    Google blogger is hosting this hate filled diatribe. Perhaps these death threats and chilling of free speech should be stopped. You can let Google know that you think this is hate speech by going to:

    http://revolutionmuslim.blogspot.com/

    Click on Report Abuse and follow the prompts.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Go fuck yourself. If someone is offended, its their own fault.

  • Bob

    So u wanna be brave? Do one about 911 being an inside job. Ohhh too offensive is it? See….? Its only about provocation. Thats not humor.

  • PNUT1

    I can only draw stick figures, I wish I had more talent. On a related subject. I just got done waching a sow on HBO called afghan Star. A girl actually dances on stage and people want to kill her for it. Seriously, they think that she should die for daring to move around on stage ! Reminds me of something Sam Harris says in one of his books. I paraphrase ” Some people hold beliefs so dangerous that for the sake of the rest of the world it is right to kill them for it”….Here's my take, these Stone Age thinking people, people who would happily kill a girl for dancing on TV will never, ever, see the wrong in their thinking and they will teach others the same wrong headed ways of looking at things. IMO, it would be right and even necessary to kill people like that to make those kinds of beliefs extinct. People like them will always pose a threat to others and to progress as a whole. Their beliefs and culture are just plain WRONG and BAD. Just like these folks threatening Cartoonists, right thinking people should eradicate these types, for the good of everyone.

  • PNUT1

    I tried to reach those folks at Revolution Muslim and couldn't . I wanted to threaten them too , so they could enjoy being scared.

  • wial

    I want to see the blondish blue-eyed Mohammed, like the way right wingers portray Christ! Wavy hair, kitschy robe, sandals, the works!

    Aryan Mohammed! Then maybe the Danes, who still shelter a lot of unrepentant Nazis (Ole Nydhal, I'm talking to you), can learn to love Mohammed too!

  • edrf

    Count me in! Fundamentalist nut jobs be damned!

  • johnniefavorite

    Damm this is a good post. No really. Great slap back.

    And for the prvious post…..PNUT: Methinks you do great diservice to Stone Age Folks who, I feel, boogied they'ass off.

  • thecloth

    When Molly Norris starts drawing cartoons of The Pope having sex with young boys then I can believe she's just not another ignorant racist who uses her ” freedom of speech” to attach Islam. Her misguided efforts do nothing with religious tolerance. How could her efforts lead to any understanding? Muslims don't have to prove anything to her. They live in this country as law-abiding and productive citizens. These folks are “American” citizens not a separate part of the population, which it seems she views them. She should use her talent to prove this nation really is a nation is one with religious tolerance and love of all mankind.

  • johnniefavorite

    Hey there's a lot of Muslim dudes who look like that around Los Feliz….Or wait, maybe they are Armenians. Ok now I've crossed the line haven't I? Sorry. But whomever they are they do sorta' look like that. Did you take that picture at Edgemont and Hollywood?

  • grindermonkey

    The entire planet will run red with blood, earthquakes will ensue,abrupt weather changes will occur and the sky will fall. A virulent and highly descriptive fatwa will deafen the masses and force them to submit. Burkas will appear from the shadows and sandals will fall from the sky. Women will be required to wear beards.

    Or not. Another Y2K.

    Great work JHOFFA but you forgot the AK47 and the exploding vest.

  • Jhoffa_

    I was in a hurry.. Apologies!

  • NotConvinced

    I think we should coddle the extra sensitive people of the world. Like the anti-abortion fetus heads, the birthers, the deathers, the 10%ers, anti-cartoon, anti-porn, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-fur, anti-drug, and racists. Otherwise they feel it's OK to kill you. Where's the love people?

  • markusgarvey

    religion is for losers who cant deal with the reality of life…

  • pissedoffcitizen

    fuck these overly-sensitive sissies. not to sound overly american, but this is america goddamnit. equal opportunity offenders here!!!! that's what we are. this coming from a liberal/progressive/marxist/communist/fascist/nazi/socialist as some douchebags like to put it. to hell with this group for making such threats and to hell with comedy central for caving to them. i understand political correctness, but c'mon, how far is too far when it comes to the simplicity of pure entertainment. you don't like it, don't watch it. and damn sure don't make death threats over it.

    friggin' clown shoes…i will be submitting a piece for this little venture. mohammad, buddha, jesus…what the hell is the difference?! all preach the same message…this is insanity shining through good intention.

  • Jews=Muslims=Catholics

    The most accurate comment on this issue. Perfect.

  • plooger

    If she does that she's not being a satirist or political cartoonist. I think you're looking for a portrait artist, at that point.

  • plooger

    > blondish blue-eyed Mohammed, like the way right wingers portray Christ!

    Spectacular!

  • Keith Whitener

    I think this idea would work better of the cartoonist who suggested it was funnier. I checked out her work. Cinnamon Roll-in-the-hay. AWFUL.

  • Jews=Muslims=Catholics

    Art has always been under attack by dirt bags who use religion to control people. The big three religions all use the same play book. They are all scum. For some reason this website only reports on the stupidity of 2/3 of those groups.

    ADL outraged over politics cartoon.
    http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5490_12.htm

    ADL condemns cartoons of Obama and McCain
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005113.html

    Top Jewish groups denounce cartoon about Gaza
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/26/controversial….

    Catholic groups denounce Angels and Demons
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theamp…

    The internet is also an area where religious extremist scum are trying to exert control.
    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046428.html

  • abba zabba

    “… I do not hear from moderate Muslims…”

    I guess this lady doesn't have any muslim friends, or doesn't watch arabic/turkish/muslimetc news such as Al Jazeera.

    You don't often here moderate voices in America because the media hardly ever airs them. It's more newsworthy to get a crazy republican to blast Muslims

  • Anonymous

    Where in the Koran is the ‘LAW’ written ??

  • Anonymous

    Yup,
    I fear the Christinests/GOP/ Libertarian/Tea baggers (All the SAME Thing) much more.

  • Anonymous

    I used a photo of a the ZZ TOP Guitarist

  • The Other Matt B

    Are you actually attempting to protest the chilling of free speech by suggesting we prevent others from speaking? Really? I can't decide if you're trying to be ironic or succeeding in being ignorant.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    Bob is right about the ‘inside job’.
    The big question is how long will a big flabby generous giant allow itself to be intimidated worldwide by a fragment of worthless little fanatics who represent only their own hatreds? They need to feel the push back.
    The Prophet is above all of this. Disparaging him won’t make his terror-whackos sane.

  • vince j

    …and May 21 is Jesus turn.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> Free speech most assuredly does not include trying to get one's way by threatening one's neighbors with murder. And that's what it is. Murder. Call it fatwa, or stupidwa or dumbwa or pervertedwa. It's a threat of murder, and any religion that allows murder based on some absurd mystical belief system is evil. And goes for the Holy Roman Inquisition as well.

  • vince j

    I second that!

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> You are not offended by threats of murder? What planet do you come from, baboon brain?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> Nowhere. It was set down by a bunch of fanatical mullahs with no relation to the actual utterances of Mohammed. Note: He is not supposed to have written the Koran but dictated it, though there is some discussion of this issue.

  • David R Velasquez

    In all fairness.

    Draw one pic of Mohammed and one of Sarah Palin.
    There.
    Now is everyone happy? ……or maybe one of Mohammed with Sarah Palin.

  • Anonymous

    Islam is a race ? All along I thought is was a mental disorder.
    Religious tolerance means that the Government doesn’t tell you what to worship or not, not that your fellow citizens have to accept your ideas. Mohammed can kiss my ass.

  • Ned

    I don't agree at all. She's asking for the moderates to educate those of us that don't know. As an American moderate, I would do exactly that if I were to see cartoons about 9/11. I would do that to avoid being part of the problem.

  • Ned

    I don't agree at all. She's asking for the moderates to educate those of us that don't know. As an American moderate, I would do exactly that if I were to see cartoons about 9/11. I would do that to avoid being part of the problem.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    (((:~{> The funny thing is, the ascii Mohammed appears to be sticky. Allah knows why….

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> But just the original one. This is obviously a sign from Allah that I am doing the right thing.

  • Ned

    I think you're lacking perspective. How does American feelings over American deaths relate in anyway to death threats that have come from a cartoon that breaks the religious laws of intolerant people? How is Bob's question related to that in any way? I feel that it's not and that it's an argumentative distraction from the actual issue here – radicalism.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> Sounds like a threat to me. In fact, sounds like what the average protection racket goon would say.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    No, he’s just telling the truth. You religious types really have of problem with telling the truth, don’t you, like all that nonsense about how long Methuselah lived?

  • Anonymous

    I know. It’s the same as the Evangelicals blaming Iceland’s Volcano on the Health care Bill.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    [[:-> But they are not pushing mystical fairy tales on their fellow man and running around issuing fatwas and burning people at the stake. You have forgotten about that, haven't you? How many innocent people were murdered by the Church? How many? And the pope has the balls (assuming he does) to "apologize" centuries later?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Can’t get more self-centered than that. I mean, the ultimate power in the universe, including trillions of star systems, has the time to blow up a rather smallish volcano in another country in order to send a message about a piece of legislation that tries to help the sick, the way “Jesus” is supposed to have done. I think what they are really angry about is that it doesn’t cover faith healing.

  • Anonymous

    Good Point

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  • hurlyburly

    Howabout a cartoon showing Jews harvesting the organs of their victims for profit?
    That would be appropriate given today’s news from Israel.
    http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1161595.html

    The tip of the iceberg, but I guess this is a Muslim bashing festival over their stupid ban on Mohamad drawings. Still, it is better than losing a kidney to organ harvesters.

  • tomhoser

    No, Matt, You must try and wrap your head around the concept that free speech has limits. Shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater is often used as an example. The blogger (and civil discourse) has set loose rules that basically you can say anything just don't threaten or hurt anyone.

  • Prattvictory

    When are you going to Afghanistan again tough guy?

  • Prattvictory

    Perhaps not a monopoly but they have cornered the market.

  • Prattvictory

    How about putting a crucifix in a jar of piss? No one got upset. No problem there. Just freedom of expression.

  • Prattvictory

    It's apparently ok to draw pictures of Mohammed because we in the West believe in freedom of expression . . .

    . . .unless it is to question the accepted narrative of the Holocaust.

    Ahmadinejad convened that meeting on the Holocaust and pointed out Western hypocrisy. But few got the joke. It must take a degree of introspection our superior culture doesn't have.

  • WhodaThunkit

    Religion is for people that do not believe in reality

  • markusgarvey

    i have quite a few Muslim friends, but i support this. This rule applies to Muslims only…you can believe whatever you want, but don't tell me what i can or cannot do..

  • starvapor

    When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
    When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

  • Prattvictory

    All religions are a bunch of assholes. Rather than point an accusing finger at their assholes we should be taking care of our own.

  • A Citizen

    Have a little respect.
    I'm not a Muslim, but the entertainment stems from picking on a religious belief.
    Call it intolerant, call it overly sensitive, but the humour is derived solely from making fun of someone else's religion from a western/secular viewpoint.
    If we were unaware of Mohammed or Muslims then this humour wouldn't exist.

    You first amendment freaks have got it all wrong. You are so concerned that you have lost your freedom of speech, like 'Muslims' are trying to censor you and take it away.
    You are concerned for the sanctity of the first amendment only because it is challenged on such a marginal level, as if it is thus revoked – get over yourselves.

    Just have a bit of respect and leave their one prophet alone, and there aren't any issues. Fuck it.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    Bob is right. We must not provoke the Muslims, or they will punish us. We must live in dread of what may be done to us next.

  • WhodaThunkit

    Faith is believing what you know ain't so

  • a citizen

    you are an ignorant fool who has no respect.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    That is the response of an accomodationist and a coward.

    “the first amendment only because it is challenged on such a marginal level,”

    The hundreds of people killed for the Danish Imam's cartoons would wonder why their lives are considered “marginal”.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    Everyday is Jesus's turn. It just doesn't result in riots and murders.

  • markusgarvey

    and you are just an ignorant fool…

  • hurlyburly

    You're taking a very narrow view Ned. The wider issue is the Comedy Central South Park series which started this latest Mohamed drawing kerfuffle.
    The so called brave and irreverent South Park creators attacked and savaged 911 truth with as much vigor and venom as any Bush supporter would have done.
    Perhaps you are unaware of this.

    But I am sure it is part of the point being made by Bob. Slamming backwards Muslims is easy, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. But to portray these cartoonists as courageous truth tellers is simply wrong. They are cowards and tools of the establishment as their treatment of the 911 truth topic showed.
    Now that you have some perspective, I hope Bobs comment makes sense to you, it should.

  • Anonymous

    Thomas Paine did not say that. It was Havelock Ellis, in the 20th century. But so what either way?

  • unclejoe40

    LEAVE MOHAMED ALONE…HE NEVER DID ANYTHING TO YOU….WAAAAAAH

    fuck that…and fuck you

    this is america…where people are free to say fuck god if they wanna

  • unclejoe40

    so athiests can be just as dicky as religionists….who knew?

  • NewMuslim

    I left US style Christianity for reasons such as this, hate and willful ignorance, inciting more hatred and laughing at the values of people who are different, whether it be religion or politics.

    I am striving to be a Muslim, I'm learning and studying. While I'm no expert, I can tell you that no Muslim would insult Jesus or Mary, in any way whatsoever. Has anyone ever seen it happen?

    I continue to be ashamed of my fellow Americans for behavior such as this. We should be promoting understanding and peace… not hate and bigotry.

  • unclejoe40

    you dont see the difference between condemning and an outright threat?

    people have the right to get upset when their religion is attacked…even done in a humorous way

    but they step over the line when they start using death threats

  • 1AgainstO

    Bob—-You are not very intelligent.

  • 1AgainstO

    Yes. Fear the muslim extremist..

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

  • 1AgainstO

    Uncle joe —- The posters on this website are willing to forego the American freedoms you and I grew up with in exchange for their “political correctness” which will devastate the America you know… They're a bunch of coward/communists/America-haters….in favor of:

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

  • Shoto

    If Muslims want their fairy-tale, “religion of peace” nonsense to be taken seriously, then they should stop making threats against people who draw cartoons for a living. By getting this exercised, all they're doing is admitting how insecure about their faith they really are.

    Good for Molly Norris, and for any cartoonist who chooses to participate in her efforts.

  • onowhere

    Hmm, methinks you've substituted smugness for faith. How's that working for ya?

  • onowhere

    Yes, and I'm free to say your attitude's probably why no one likes you.

  • Anonymous

    Citizen I dont know where to begin.
    You couldnt be more wrong.
    Everyday in America on the cable someone is making a joke about Jews.
    WHO CARES.
    Any issue deserves the humor light shown brightly on it.
    AllahBlowupNicely, The PedoPOPE, and any other cult that believes in 2000+ year old superstitions deserves to be laughed at……..

    Did you hear the one about Allaah and the ayatollah walking into a bar with a pig on a leash?

  • JRB

    I wasn't aware there was anything more smug than faith.

  • Jhoffa_

    EVERYBODY DRAW Mohamed!

    I know it's stupid, since we don't know what he looked like anyway.. Just draw him!

    Fuck this noise! DRAW MOHAMED!

  • NewMuslim

    Let's put this in perspective.

    There are millions of Muslims in the US. Only ONE wrote that warning/threat on ONE web site. So in response, we have media coverage all over the place, we have pundits up in arms, we have the population upset, we are going to, enmass, insult the entire Muslim population of the US and the world. Over ONE guy's post on ONE web site?

    Do all of you who wish to insult every Muslim because of it? Get a grip, folks.

  • Bob White

    What sense does it make to be offensive and insensitive toward others? To push others down maybe an unwise way to elevate oneself.

  • theoracle

    I had a dream about the Prophet Mohammed riding a camel across the desert, arriving at an oasis, watering his thirsty mount, and…oh, wait, an image is an image. I wonder how many Muslims, including ayatollahs and imams, have had dreams about Mohammed, possibly of a vengeful head-decapitating Mohammed or one displaying kindness and forgiveness and acceptance toward all people? And what of the people behind Revolution Muslim, have they ever had a dream in which an image of Mohammed appeared? If so, then all the ayatollahs, imams and the people behind Revolution Muslim, or any other Muslim, must immediately punish themselves for having allowed an image of the Prophet Mohammed to pop-up in their own mind. An image is an image, so unless there is a loophole, a stipulation that images in the mind are acceptable while images outwardly projected are not, then the punishment that some hardcore right-wing Muslims have in mind for people who believe in freedom of expression must be applied to themselves, anytime an image of the Prophet Mohammed crosses the desert of their own mind.

  • markusgarvey

    whoever said religious people had a monopoly on dickishness?…

  • taldutronc

    no
    faith can be smug but doesn't have to be
    but pure smugness is just that
    balling up religion with religions is smug and dense
    religion is a big word like art or science
    when people attempt to make it little they're exactly like the right wingers who believe 'liberal' is a dirty word… and belief is exactly what's being displayed here!
    beliefs and conditioning
    get past both and you are truly religious

    einstein -

    “the most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger… is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself to us as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of devoutly religious men.”

  • taldutronc

    every one of my atheist friends exhibits the same intolerance

    the same as any xtain or muslim fundi

    their fervent belief in non-belief that they will not see

    everything is belief if you let it be

    the only truly logical path is that of an agnostic

    but what kind of path is that ?

    i love the unknown

    and i can never really KNOW you or anyone really

    i can believe i do

    but that real and certain unknown is what religion is about

    love of the unknown

    confront ignorance and intolerance
    and if that means drawing cartoons of mohammed even if it offends, do it !
    i'm sure i'm offending many by saying suggesting many here are ignorant about religion
    but i'm ignorant too
    i see that i am
    will your ego let you ?

  • Anonymous

    Oh I think he’s show islam as little respect as possible. Which is how much it deserves. Don’t worry though, if I had any artistic talent I’d draw offenses pictures of Jesus too just to be fair. How about this, a drawing of Mohammed fucking Jesus in the ass? Who would be most offended?

  • edwards_com

    YES. Whether one agrees with it or not Must be protected.

  • edwards_com

    YES.. They are Conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    Considering the claims made by the christian bible, it’s a safe bet that god doesn’t exist. In fact you start analyzing the gods in other religions and you’d find them unlikely to exist. The ease of which god worshipers dismiss all religions but theirs only makes it easier for Atheists to do the same only without the exception.

  • edwards_com

    That's correct. If people can draw a Jesus even tho nobody knew what he looked like even the ones with Blond Hair & Blue Eyes (lol).

  • edwards_com

    More Peaceful that our Cage fighting 'Rambo' Jesus of the Evangelicals

  • edwards_com

    NO.
    That used to be the American attitude.

  • http://justkidding.com tqwhite

    I made a Facebook group so you can show your solidarity, support free speech and oppose Islamic intolerance. Join up. Have fun! It's on Facebook at: http://bit.ly/cGnmRs

  • Benway for the Nova Police

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  • davidrvelasquez

    Much as I hate anti islamic racism… I'm totally behind this.
    When I read about the Southpark death threats yesterday. I was already thinking what if EVERYONE drew a picture of Mohammed… then they'd have to get over this medieval notion of not portraying their “prophet”. It's not like they're making fun of Allah. But Mohammed was just a man. To kill others over drawing his image is outrageously stupid.
    Mind you…. the cartoon that got a nederlander killed WAS indeed racist. Nonetheless, murdering him was still an act of barbarism.

    The thought further occured to me (while watching an old episode of the 1990's series Millenium where they make fun of Scientology) that radical islamists are really being stupid about this. Instead they should be following the example of Scientologists and put all their money into lawyers instead of bombs and assassinations.
    Think about it.
    The Church of Scientology has waaay more clout when it comes to squelching criticism of their “religion”. They just sue the shit out of the perpetrators.

  • polondia

    The idea that this women who is surely not of color, would instigate Muslim anger based on her own fears. She's the same people who on Sunday, don't go into a “inner city” church to worship with African-Americans, the emphasis on Americans,nor into a Mosque to worship with fellow Muslim Americans, is not afraid when a white police officer shoots down an innocent black child on any street in America in cold blood, and is exonerated in court. She is content that the white officer acted on her behalf to protect her virtues and her ideas of the world.

    She is a fool. The same Euro fools who broke up the Ottoman Empire, colonialized and brutally mistreated Muslims, Africans, Arabs, Asians and other peoples of color around the world for decades, is not afraid to make mockery of these same people and their religion. She is a fool and fools never learn. She is the how and why the West has failed and is falling.

  • PNUT1

    Why should anyone respect silly ideas ? Religion is dumb. If you can't see that it's all make believe that's your problem.

  • markusgarvey

    what sense does it make to threaten to kill people because they make a cartoon?…

  • BobMD

    Okay, this is America and you can say whatever you want and insult whoever you want. But do you walk around in public telling random strangers “f— you?” I'm not Muslim, but if they say something is highly insulting in their culture, why would you intentionally do it? Have some respect for your fellow man, sheesh.

  • davidrvelasquez

    Mohammed is not their god. He is their prophet.
    He was a man.
    A famous man.
    Which makes him public domain.
    Killing over depictions is retarded.

    Why should one religion be more sacrosanct than all others?
    Seriously.
    Have respect for their religion? Fine, I respect all religions. I would never tell anyone their religion is false or evil. What you believe in or don't believe in is personal and no one has any right to tell you how to face your mortality or your view of existence.
    We can argue it theoretically but ultimately no one has definitive proof of having God's unlisted phone number… or that there is no life after death.
    Not atheists nor cristofascists nor islamists… nobody.
    But how about extremists having respect for human life? and being able to put things into rational perspect?
    Religious fanaticism of any kind is assinine.

  • davidrvelasquez

    Yeah?
    But what is reality?

  • starvapor

    Religion is still mass delusion, any way you cut it…
    Thomas Paine understood this when he noted:
    “The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”

  • davidrvelasquez

    There is that which is called consensus reality, when more than one person can agree on the perception of an event.
    It becomes “reality” through politic.
    Religion isn't much different…. just a greater suspension of disbelief.

  • Chefbob

    Aren't Muslims supposed to revere Allah not his messenger?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    (((:~{> Has it ever occurred to you that the Muslims may just have a particularly virulent case of body thetans?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    “The same Euro fools who broke up the Ottoman Empire”

    Say what?

  • Jim Lunsford

    How about drawing Jesus getting a cross jammed up his ass on the same day? Stupid christians are just as assholish as the muslims on that crap.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Well, I was driving yesterday and some fool had his ghetto blaster turned up and that was precisely what the rap “artist” was “singing.”

  • Jim Lunsford

    And how about Jesus giving head?

    Never anonymous, never afraid.

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  • mcmgrant

    Yep. Jesus was a gun-toting cowboy–according to Palin.

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  • Augie

    …is this like the “Draw Cubby” contest, cuz I can do that.

  • mcmgrant

    Muhammed was a pedophile.

  • ChrisKnight

    The first time they made that threat, they carried it out and then some.

    We as a society just for the sake of self preservation have the right to be pissed.

    F'em

  • ChrisKnight

    Dude that was funny. Thanks!

  • onowhere

    Then you know little or nothing about faith.

  • BobMD

    Actually, Christians don't care what you draw at all. “You know not what you do”…

  • Jim Lunsford

    That's not true. Christians are the most ignorant, hateful, and racist of all the religious idiots. I grew up in the fucking bible belt. Try wearing a t-shirt with that picture on it. I'd advise making sure you have health insurance first though.

  • aionessence

    PUH-LEAZE … get on the real story … the group 'Revolution Muslim' is a COMPLETE FARCE … the group consists almost solely of one virulent, problematic ex-jew-'jew', a certain Joseph Cohen (along w/ one or two other fools he might be able to con into helping him any particular month) …

    Cohen is a born & raised ultra-conservative 'jew' from Brooklyn … he & his similarly origined wife moved to israel many yrs ago & for a couple years lived as outpost settlers in a (then) semi-legal settlement north of Gaza … after discussions of a “religious” nature with israeli officials, Cohen changes his name to Yusuf al-Khattab & wife emigrate to Morocco (!) … after gaining street cred there (& lord knows what else), they head back & set up shop in NYC again … to date his career there has consisted of nothing but a most ridiculous attempt to incite & bad mouth muslims of all sects & Islam in general … one of the ways he & his tiny band first attempted to gain additional 'cred' was to wail about the 'Jewish evil' while standing outside of mosques & islamic bookstores … sometimes this would be Cohen himself, sometimes his wife or eldest son along, sometimes w/ one or two misguided purported-'moslems' … unsurprisingly, he/they would be shooed-away forthwith … it got so bad a couple years ago that the local mosque closest to his home in NYC would always make sure to have a lookout posted just to make sure this guy wouldn't come around & spout his hateful drivel … since then his resume consists of 'congratulating' the Fort Hood Texas shooter, the xmas day crotch-bomber & any other maniac who does something stupid … it's nothing but PURE PROPAGANDA … anybody who is dumb enough to fall for it needs to go back & read Sun Tzu …

    PATHETIC …

    VERY Shoddy “reporting”

  • markusgarvey

    WWMD….who would Mohammad draw?…

  • markusgarvey

    you killed Kenny!…you bastards!!!…

  • Shoto

    Same fairy-tale bullshit. Different packaging, that's all.

  • edwards_com

    And on his camel …Clyde

  • thebl00dhound

    Now lets make Memorial Day “Everybody Draw 9/11=inside job Day”.

  • NewMuslim

    You said, “The first time they made that threat, they carried it out and then some.”

    Who are “they”? I didn't make any threat, didn't carry any out. Yet you think it's OK to insult my religion and my Prophet (pbuh)?

    That would be like me attacking you because someone from your state committed a violent crime.

    Of course, you have the right to be angry if you wish, but please direct your anger at those who are deserving, not to Muslims in general.

  • NewMuslim

    We love God above all. And we love his messenger (pbuh).

  • NewMuslim

    We do not create physical images of the Prophet (pbuh), such as drawings, paintings or statues. If the Prophet (pbuh) enters a dream, we've committed no sin.

  • mcthorogood

    God created human beings in her own image.
    Christians see an image of god in the mirror each morning.
    When people look upon each other, they don't always recognize God.

  • ChrisKnight

    Great analogy. LMAO

  • mountaingirl49

    YES, FINALLY! This is a fantastic idea! Let us all stand with the creators of South Park to defend their right of free speech. Let this be known as Free Speech Day from now on!! I call on all librarians, and libraries, in the spirit of Banned Books Week, to put their ideals on the line, and join in this day to exercise our freedom of speech!!

  • hneftafl

    “Moderate” muslims do not come forward on the issue of violent extremism for the same reason catholics do not come forward to denounce pedophile priests. It is their religion, and anything done in its name is sacrosanct, no matter how barbaric, murderous or irrational. There are millions upon millions of faithful willing to defend this insanity to their dying breath (or, at least, someone else's). I think it would be wonderful if millions upon millions submitted depictions of Mohammed via the internet. Al Qaida can't murder us all, can they? (Shut up, Dick, I'm not asking you!)

  • zaphodity

    You got a deal Miss cartoonist lady

  • trippin

    And assiduously avoid blaming the hurricanes in Mississippi on their dumbass Republican governor.

    The megachurch is the 21st century puppy mill for the rabid right.

  • trippin

    You said it!! Serrano received death threats, hate mail, and lost grants over it.

    That episode was a stunning example of “Don’t Fuck With My Sky Daddy,” brought to you by the American Taliban, who seek every day to impose their version of sharia law on everyone else in America.

  • trippin

    Seems to me that your version of invisible sky daddy is a conspiracy theory. Other than that, the pattern of behavior is the same: blind rage at any suggestion that their firmly held belief is nothing but a steaming crock of bullshit.

    So in addition to the Muslims, the Jesus-jihadists, and the teabaggers so fixated on the image that health care was “rammed down their throat,” we owe it to ourselves to ridicule the Truther Brigade, just as a matter of principle and non-discriminatory satire of the ill effects of fundamentalist-style lack of mental hygiene on people who would otherwise be normal and sane.

    OK, go ahead. Call me a coward tool of the establishment also, just to see if I give a flying fuck.

    Don’t get me wrong, I see nothing humorous about South Park. Never have, never will. Frankly, I could give less of a shit what they opined about because those who would consider such sophomoric crass nonsense as entertainment are too fucking stupid to worry about anyhow. I won’t be seeking their advice on anything of import or otherwise.

    You place much more emphasis on what South Park thinks than a person should. But again, it isn’t the credibility of the source, it’s the idea that someone with the intellect of a South Park fan might be swayed by the show ridiculing your core delusion.

    That’s pitiful if you really think about it.

    Take a chill pill. Some people make fun of me for being ugly. Big fucking deal. I don’t live for their love, nor yours, nor you mine.

  • Shoto

    Maybe the “we do not create physical images of the Prophet” part came about simply because the writers of this fairy tale were concerned that drawing pictures might get out of control and thus be bad for business. When you boil this religion crap down to its essence, it’s all about generating new membership (and thus) new sources of revenue. It’s all the same bullshit, just different packaging. Whatever gets the suckers in the door…

  • Shoto

    Maybe the “we do not create physical images of the Prophet” part came about simply because the writers of this fairy tale were concerned that drawing pictures might get out of control and thus be bad for business. When you boil this religion crap down to its essence, it’s all about generating new membership (and thus) new sources of revenue. It’s all the same bullshit, just different packaging. Whatever gets the suckers in the door…

  • Shoto

    Maybe the “we do not create physical images of the Prophet” part came about simply because the writers of this fairy tale were concerned that drawing pictures might get out of control and thus be bad for business. When you boil this religion crap down to its essence, it’s all about generating new membership (and thus) new sources of revenue. It’s all the same bullshit, just different packaging. Whatever gets the suckers in the door…

  • Shoto

    Maybe the “we do not create physical images of the Prophet” part came about simply because the writers of this fairy tale were concerned that drawing pictures might get out of control and thus be bad for business. When you boil this religion crap down to its essence, it’s all about generating new membership (and thus) new sources of revenue. It’s all the same bullshit, just different packaging. Whatever gets the suckers in the door…

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Nope. And I’m not offended by someone flinging shitty insults online like the fucking monkey you are either. What are you, 4 years old?

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Nope. And I’m not offended by someone flinging shitty insults online like the fucking monkey you are either. What are you, 4 years old?

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Nope. And I’m not offended by someone flinging shitty insults online like the fucking monkey you are either. What are you, 4 years old?

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Nope. And I’m not offended by someone flinging shitty insults online like the fucking monkey you are either. What are you, 4 years old?

  • ChrisKnight

    The fact that Muslims get their panties twisted in such a bunch over something perceived as so stupid is what makes it so fun to begin with. This is 2010 and the remainder of the worlds religions are far to ahead of the game to “respect” any superstitious, intolerant diatribe and expect the rest of the world to kiss your collective asses like you are anyone more special than the rest. It's a friggin joke for Christ's sake(no pun intended). The very moment after you die, none of this will mean jack shit.

  • TALK-THIS

    1. the RIGHT TO TALK
    2. the RIGHT TO WALK
    3. the RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES

  • TALK-THIS

    1. the RIGHT TO TALK
    2. the RIGHT TO WALK
    3. the RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES

  • TALK-THIS

    1. the RIGHT TO TALK
    2. the RIGHT TO WALK
    3. the RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES

  • TALK-THIS

    1. the RIGHT TO TALK
    2. the RIGHT TO WALK
    3. the RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES

  • USEXPAT

    this isn't about free speech this is about provoking people, if you think provoking zealot Musilums to accept freedom of speech by offending them then something isnt right about the way your all thinking… I live in Denmark and I saw first hand what provoking people can lead too, its not the right way to respect each other.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re missing the point; whether the subject is appropriate or not (Parker & Stone are not known for their sensitivity to anyone’s particular belief system), what is not acceptable is being able to physically threaten ANYONE else into not excercising their right to free speech. We allow Becks and Limbaughs and O’Reillys and Hannitys and other volcanoes of toxic, right-wing hate spew to pollute the airwaves 24/7, but a freakin’ cartoon inspires people to violence? Forget that they offended someone; it’s done, and can’t be taken back. Do you really think that intimidating any other person into not speaking their mind is what America is supposed to be about? Simply put, death threats are terrorism, no matter how the threat is veiled. This web site needs to be investigated. No one has the right to kill, or threaten with death, any person who offends them.

  • DefenderOfFreeSpeech

    tell your brothers that its OK in America to insult BIG MO and that you will directly
    DEFEND those who do the insults……………

  • DefenderOfFreeSpeech

    tell your brothers that its OK in America to insult BIG MO and that you will directly
    DEFEND those who do the insults……………

  • DefenderOfFreeSpeech

    tell your brothers that its OK in America to insult BIG MO and that you will directly
    DEFEND those who do the insults……………

  • DefenderOfFreeSpeech

    tell your brothers that its OK in America to insult BIG MO and that you will directly
    DEFEND those who do the insults……………

  • felixthecatxxxx

    {{{:-(> Danish imams provoked people by traveling the Muslim world with cartoons that the Danish artists had NOT drawn, and inciting riots. If the Western MSM media had not been so afraid of Muslims, this would have been better known.

    Free speech may be provocative at times, but sane people do not murder, maim, and burn things when they are provoked. If we are going to live in constant fear that our speech may provoke someone to act like an insane savage, we might as well cut out our tongues and chop off our fingers.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    LOL

  • felixthecatxxxx

    Islam is a race? We learn something new everyday.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    “The same Islamo-fools who broke up the Byzantine Empire, and brutally…yadda yadda yadda…” Fixed.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • Anonymous

    Or a Bee Gee.

  • trippin

    I love you, man.

  • Anonymous

    So basically, you’re saying that your beliefs should be your rationalization for becoming like them? A belief itself is not dangerous, only when put into action. Do you believe that a person should be killed just for thinking about murder, absent the actual comission of it? How many of these people you witnessed actually killed the girl? Seriously, that you think you’re the right-thinking person who has the prescription for this situation is every bit as Stone Age thinking as the people you would seek to condemn. Is it your intention to become as “WRONG and BAD” as they are? Think about it:

    you believe you should have the right to kill a people who believe they should have the right to kill people who offend their beliefs.

    You’ll sink up to your axles on that one. If you’re trying to be ironically funny, it was a pretty poor effort. If you weren’t, then the whole post is hysterically funny.

  • Anonymous

    Benway,

    Better check six; a fatwa virus has been issued…unplug your workstation immediately and go into hiding…

  • jthebear

    I am not an artist. But maybe a cartoon with Moses, Mohammed, and the Pope conspiring to foment hatred, violence, and ruin lives. Perhaps throw in Milton Friedman for the hell of it.

  • Anonymous

    He could probably do it, but, Dude…do you really want to see that?

    “So, your name is actually Gay Focker…?”

  • jthebear

    I am not a cartoonist. But perhaps a cartoon showing Moses, Mohammed, and the Pope fomenting violence, hatred, and ruining mankind. Throw in Milton Friedman for the hell of it.

  • Anonymous

    NewMuslim,

    Yours is the voice Molly Norris is looking for. These posters exhibit no respect because they can’t differentiate moderate from extremist Muslims; indeed, most are totally unaware that such moderate Muslims even exist, and that is the problem. Their animosity is fanned by fear of the extremist factions of Islam that they perceive demand respect for their beliefs from the rest of the non-Muslim world through fear and intimidation; yet rarely (if ever) do they demonstrate a similar respect for non-Muslim beliefs (come to think of it, Islamic fundamentalism has a lot in common with Christian fundamentalism).
    Please, help them to understand; be patient, and speak loudly and SLOWLY. They’re ignorant and scared, but eventually they’ll catch on.

  • davidrvelasquez

    You know what I mean… excuse me, 'bigoted against moslems and intended to incite racist sentiment against middle eastern immigrants'.

    The Felix I grew up with had a bit more imagination than being such a literalist.

  • KpC

    I'm going to listen to the new Black Eyed Pea's album and stay out of this dumb argument. Draw me for goodness sakes. IMMA BE

  • OldAtlantic

    Time for Muslims to go back to Arabia.

  • http://alanye.com/ Dai Alanye

    “…we invaded them and call it a crusade.”

    Get your facts straight. Doesn’t anyone study history any more? The Middle East was largely Christian when the Muslims invaded in the 700s. The Crusades were a belated attempt to return them to Christian rule.

  • Anonymous

    Moral relativism = weakness.
    The ignorance is yours .

  • Guest

    The only volcano-blaming I’ve seen has been the global warming folks blaming the erruption on CO2 levels melting the glaciers, and the resultant reduced pressure somehow released magma to the surface. Same thing they blamed for Katrina.

  • Anonymous

    Sam Harris was right about Moral and Cultural Relativism too, your post is a fine example. Mr.Islamist will gladly cut your throat while you argue with me about what right I have to off him. Pick a side Sally.

  • hurlyburly

    No need to bare your soul as if we care about your deepest thoughts, we don’t.
    I just thought I would take the time to EXPLAIN to you why the original Bob comment called them cowards. Perspective. Even when it is served up on a platter, you can seem to grasp it.

  • Mmmm

    This is not about provoking people: it's about letting religous zealots dictate how your own world is run. Respect is supposed to run both ways, and it isn't going that way these days. People who threaten to kill others over cartoons don't deserve respect, but they've had it for quite a while. Now, trying to spread their version of intolerance and disrespect, they're getting resistance.

  • loubinion99

    ROTFL, dude that is just too funny!

    Lou
    http://www.whos-watching.tk

  • loubinion99

    ROTFL, dude that is just too funny!

    Lou
    http://www.whos-watching.tk

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    And the Bible.

  • omop

    Yousef Al-Khattab, Man Behind Virulent Anti-Semitic Website, Grew Up Jewish

    By Bilal Haye – The Brooklynink April 23, 2010

    Editor’s note: The Brooklyn Ink first broke the story of Revolution Muslim, the organization that has issued a threat against the creators of “South Park” for their depiction of the Prophet Muhummad. The story profiled the group’s founder, Yousef Al-Khattab who grew up as Joseph Cohen in Brooklyn. Al-Khattab, in a reader comment, said he left Revolution Muslim in December of 2009. The story appears below, as does a follow up on the shutting down of Revolution Muslim’s website.

    “I don’t know if this is my jihad,” says Yousef Al-Khattab. “It’s my obligation to command the good and forbid the evil.” His American based website, Revolution Muslim, has become the scourge of Jewish bloggers and cyber vigilantes across the country, an odd achievement for a person born into Judaism and educated in Jewish schools, who has lived in Hassidic communities in Williamsburg and Jewish settlements in Gaza.

    Is the Seattle Cartoonist aware of these facts?

  • Jim Lunsford

    Oh, you mean like how we have Jesus rifles over in the invasions/occupations that we are illegally running? In case your retarded ass hasn't noticed, it is the stupid fucking christians who have killed so many and it is the stupid fucking christian crowd which is whining about they need respect, the fear muslims, and this is a crusade and is god's war and all that shit. Christianity is far more bloody than Islam. And it is all in our fucking schools, courts, congress, every fucking where.

  • jimbo92107

    Apparently Shiia Muslims commonly have pictures of Muhammad (googled it), and yet they are not killed. Also, from the depictions I saw, there isn't much agreement as to what the guy actually looked like, other than he might have sported a beard and he definitely wasn't a blond…. like Jesus. ;-)

  • Jim Lunsford

    How arrogant the humans think god made us look like him/her/it.

  • Anonymous

    Personally, I haven’t had the misfortune of having an Islamic terrorist come at me with a knife, and I suspect that you haven’t, either. Which means you’re another pathetic fascist asshole being driven by his fears, not common sense. The side I’ve picked is obvious; the side that sees you as no different than the people you profess to hate. Who gives a rart’s ass what Sam Harris has to say; what are you, his bitch? Fuck you AND Sam Harris.

  • Jim Lunsford

    They are not supposed to make graven images period. The same as christians. It's just they tend to follow their code more. Read the christian commandments. But yeah, it is ALL bullshit. However, our ridicule of it in the west is because this is a christian dominated region that will ridicule every OTHER religious mumbo-jumbo and call it wacky, while insisting that christianity is all about the love. Right. Love of the bomb, pedophilia, and money.

  • sandi2

    I agree, Mcthorogood. The problems come when men make God in their image. By doing so they don't strive to be more “godlike” in their behavior and the different religions argue and fight like primitive animals.

  • David R Velasquez

    But this isn’t an exclusively american issue.
    There’s a debate raging in europe about the balance between the respect for other people’s cultures while preserving the essence of western constitutional values.
    Or western culture for that matter.
    Dai Alanye seems to miss the fact that we did indeed invade the middle east at a time when moslems have been indigenous there for atleast the last millenium.
    But by the same token. The immigration of moslems westward is recent, enormous and causes considerable angst among the aging european populations. The far right have used these fears for political ends and the center-right governments have danced to the tune the fascists play…. as in the swiss voting to ban mosques’ minarets and the french gov’t banning the chador (headscarves) On the surface one would quickly assume that it’s just white racism and ignorance rearing its ugly head, and that is some bit the case. On the other hand, in the neighborhoods where there are mixed european working class and moslem immigrants …in many of the schools, public institutions, even in the nightlife… moslem residents have been demanding or even unofficially imposing their values on the areas they live in…. insisting that local authorities accommodate their cultural values.
    I don’t see it as being either one side or another side.
    It’s a complex issue.
    And you’re absolutely right… having asswipe cristofascists engraving biblical verses on riflescopes just adds to the problem.
    We shouldn’t be there… even though we created this mess.
    But for the sake of assimilation there’s going to have be some movement on both sides.
    Moslems shouldn’t get so worked up about a person being depicted… atleast not to the point of violence. And accept that as long as they choose to live in the west then they have to abide by the cultural standards of their host countries.
    And westerners should accept moslems practicing their faith under minarets, headscarves if they want to and not to be racially profiling them.

  • AJ

    So muslims show others respect for their right to think anyway they want to by killing others that offend them? How many Danes kill muslims for offending them?

    You are an apologist and an enabler of murder because you are a coward.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    You have to be over 4 years old to know that threatening murder is assault under the law?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Nothing is preventing you from doing better, except perhaps your lack of talent….

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    LA really _was_ transported in its entirety from another planet, wasn’t it?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    That’s the orthodox viewpoint, but there’s no reason to assume Mohammed was illiterate. There is actually a vast amount of detailed information in the Koran that could only have come from written sources, especially the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, as well as Arab historians. If Mohammed couldn’t read, he must have had someone in his inner circle who could, and the nature of his utterances after what sound like epileptic fits would tend to indicate that he had these sources memorized. There are even indications in the Koran of knowledge that was intentionally suppressed in the bible, for example the identification of Miriam with Joshua’s mother.

  • JAG

    Unfortunately, Religions make it their self assigned right to dictate to everyone and ridicule or attempt to control and suppress those who are against them. They can condemn Gays and call them sinners, rail against abortion and women's rights, but when THEIR abuses are challenged, they dash behind the veil of “religioujs freedom”. no more. they play politics, they play terrorist. their “religion” is no more “sacred” as a neo-NAZI or a Klux Klan group. Religions are just cults, some more popular than others. Their attempting to dictate to others on basis of their cult is unacceptable. Especially when their cults exploit women, children and others less advantaged.

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    Not necessarily. The Hebrews spent 518 years under the domination of the Egyptians, from 1504 until 986 BC. So there is good reason to believe that they had access to written records, in Egyptian, of what Manetho called the 16th Dynasty: http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterThirteen.htm

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    When will it be Draw (on wanted posters) Amerikkkan KKKristian Imperialist, War Mongering Fascists Day?

    Funny how everyone gets bent out of shape because a couple of deranged losers threaten, not commit actual acts of violence, just threaten, the potty mouth creators of South Park, but say nothing about the U.S. killing close to two million innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians for control of Middle East fossil fuel.

    More people have been killed, tortured and terrorized by KKKristians and/or in the name of Jesus than all other religions (including Islam) combined.

    Amerikkka is indeed a religious country. We worship the Antichrist. I'd like to see some drawings of that!

  • Jim Lunsford

    actually he didn't even threaten. He just stated an obvious truth. People get pissed when other people piss on their beliefs. I wonder how many death threats I would get if I videoed myself wiping my ass with the christian bible?

  • USEXPAT

    I'm not apologizing for anyone to anyone, I just dont think its nice to provoke others by doing things solely for offending them, sure we should have the right to draw or say most anything we wish to, but we should also be ready to deal with the consequences of what we do… we know what some muslims will react like, they will burn our embassies and riot in the streets calling for jihad… then what will we do? perhaps we can call on Sara Palin and Cheny to go spread democracy in to the hearts of these poor people who lack the great freedoms found in the US… (please note the sarcasm)
    Coward…. I dont think i am a coward. I just dont think its a good idea. I am using better judgement as these people still deserve respect…

  • bufftrucker

    Everybody here that subscribes to the “they're provoking people” line of thought sounds as though they think islamic extremists have a free pass to murder just because they've been offended. I respect that you “saw first hand what provoking people can lead too”, but think about his as well; you also saw, first hand, your own countrymen having the courage not to be intimidated by a bunch of vicious, fanatical islamic primitives intent on forcing respect for their beliefs on those that they do not respect in turn. We used to call people like that heroes, even patriots. I only wish that the dishrags at Comedy Central had that kind of intestinal fortitude. But intestinal fortitude is not the kind of thing one should expect from the modern American corporate type. So by all means, stand up proudly for what you believe in…until, that is somebody threatens you for it. Then sit down a sniveling, impotent little bitch.

  • takuan

    yay!

  • mrtinez666

    None from me. brother.

  • takuan

    freedom FROM religion is a basic human right. It comes before freedom to delude yourself with sky-fairies.

  • USEXPAT

    it's exactly about provoking them… sure sometimes provocation is useful to change the systems that hold us. This is just disrespecting the muslim people. there is a better way to be diplomatic.

  • mrtinez666

    So this guy is a self loather who now wears a different hat? That's like Clark Kent taking off the glasses and suddenly he's Superman? I ain't buying it.

  • USEXPAT

    yes the Imams from DK did incite muslims to riot and burn. and they were not allowed back to DK, nor where they danish, they were immigrant muslims… the muslims in DK have very little voice and I guess they saw the opportunity to get heard… I dont agree with their actions and I dont think they should ever get so angry over a drawing. they are also to blame. They certianly dont fit in to a society which allows freedoms of speech. but now comes the time when every side will start to press the other for pissing rights… who is going to win? I think both sides will lose int he long run. I dont think we should provoke them, nor do i disagree with what south park did to prove a point.

  • Penny K

    Well if she'd just left it at the suggestion of greater communication efforts, I wouldn't have a problem, but waving a flag to antagonize the few who see this as a life and death issue, and asking us all to share in the possible consequences, leads me to think Miss Sketcher would do well to confine her ideas to party talk in her own circle. Yes, you can say we are intimidated; we are, with good reason. How about a few years of calming down time?

  • Anonymous

    Internet tough guy. Your mother should be proud.
    Unlike you, I happen to have served with distinction in the 10th SFG (A) . I’m not scared to decide that there is a right and a wrong and to fight for it .
    It’s nice to see you standing on the side of those who throw acid in school girls faces, who kill women for having the misfortune of being raped and who hang homosexuals and atheists. It’s cute. You should read some Sam Harris, he’s a smart guy. While you’re at it, read the Koran and the Hadiths, learn about the enlightened world view you’re defending. So Fuck you too, I’m done with your silly ass.

  • Anonymous

    Internet tough guy. Your mother should be proud.
    Unlike you, I happen to have served with distinction in the 10th SFG (A) . I’m not scared to decide that there is a right and a wrong and to fight for it .
    It’s nice to see you standing on the side of those who throw acid in school girls faces, who kill women for having the misfortune of being raped and who hang homosexuals and atheists. It’s cute. You should read some Sam Harris, he’s a smart guy. While you’re at it, read the Koran and the Hadiths, learn about the enlightened world view you’re defending. So Fuck you too, I’m done with your silly ass.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    Actually, more people have been killed in the name of Islam than in the name of Christianity. As Islam conquered the Christian Middle East and the Christian North Africa, and also spread east into Persia and India, many tens of millions were slaughtered. The total may be as high as 230 million in the first few centuries of Islamic expansion alone.

    As for your other points, everyday is draw anti-Christian, anti war mongering and so on day. Do you never read the editorial cartoons? Every day people complain and speak out against the senseless killing of innocent Iraqis and Afghans. The point of draw Mohammad Day is that people are afraid of Muslims and their death threats. In a free society, we have not only the right to open speech, but the responsibility to protect and use it; if it is undefended, that right could be lost.

  • felixthecatxxxx

    Try this experiment: video yourself using the Bible as toilet paper, and see how many death threats you get. Then video yourself using the Quran as toilet paper, and count the resultant death threats. We await the results of your experiment.

  • Jim Lunsford

    Gee, since I've had to walk through the crowds of fanatical christians telling me I'm going to hell if I don't take their copy of the stupid, and hateful, fucking bible, I rather doubt the christians would be so forgiving. And I'm not your brother. I hate idiots who choose to give their own power over to be a slave to a fantasy.

  • Jim Lunsford

    And yes, they would have all those threats coming in. That's why I always scream out “Satan Rules!” whenever I see those nutjob christians on the side of the road with their twisted little hateful faces screaming that god loves us all. Fucking sick people.

  • Jim Lunsford

    Try this experiment: Pull your head out of your ass and wipe the turd from beneath your ears. And really, I could give a shit about the result.

  • wiseturtle

    Draw a gay Jesus day.

    Draw 5 dancing Israelis filming airplanes crashing into the WTC before the crash day. (and their vehicle had false passports ad BOMB residue too!)

    Draw pedophile catholic priest day. Too late…. they are already drawn to the choirboys!

  • Jim Lunsford

    This moron is too stupid to search for his reply, so I'll just post his ignorance here and respond at the top so that all may stone him for his public display of stupidity.

    Dai Alanye (unregistered) wrote, in response to Jim Lunsford (unregistered):

    “…we invaded them and call it a crusade.”

    Get your facts straight. Doesn't anyone study history any more? The Middle East was largely Christian when the Muslims invaded in the 700s. The Crusades were a belated attempt to return them to Christian rule.

    Dumbass, the wars in the middle east RIGHT NOW are termed a crusade. Do you even read? If you did, you would have known of what I wrote. We are invading them, not the other way around.

  • Jim Lunsford

    Here is another moron.

    felixthecatxxxx wrote, in response to Kevin Schmidt (unregistered):

    Actually, more people have been killed in the name of Islam than in the name of Christianity. As Islam conquered the Christian Middle East and the Christian North Africa, and also spread east into Persia and India, many tens of millions were slaughtered. The total may be as high as 230 million in the first few centuries of Islamic expansion alone.

    As for your other points, everyday is draw anti-Christian, anti war mongering and so on day. Do you never read the editorial cartoons? Every day people complain and speak out against the senseless killing of innocent Iraqis and Afghans. The point of draw Mohammad Day is that people are afraid of Muslims and their death threats. In a free society, we have not only the right to open speech, but the responsibility to protect and use it; if it is undefended, that right could be lost.

    Wrong. The holocaust of WW2 was pope approved. And Hitler was a good catholic. Let's go back to roman times when they wiped out the gnostics. And so on. By the way, what the Muslims are doing today is resisting invasion and occupation of their country. And you belittle people who really just want to be left alone. Would you fight for your land? Probably not, you sound like a pussy.

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    felixthecatxxxx says, “The point of draw Mohammad Day is that people are afraid of Muslims and their death threats.”

    So? The entire planet is terrorized by the US and our imperialist, genocidal, wars OF terror.

    Muslim threats directed at US citizens do not equate to almost two million killings of innocent Muslims at the hands of US Military terrorists.

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    Yes, we are indeed waging a bloody crusade against the Muslims. That's why KKKristianity is the official religion of the U.S. Military.

    But KKKristianity is not the religion of the the corporatocracy or the upper 1% plutocracy who order our wars OF terror. No, they worship the 24 caret golden calf, and their Holy Trinity is Wealth, Power and Greed.

    Of course US soldiers are divinely protected by Jesus because of the Bible verse stamped on their rifle sights. Never mind the fact that Afghans are outraged and consider this as further proof that the US is their enemy, which of course, is true.

    Piss off their minds and hearts and their suicidal bombers will follow.

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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spaghetti_monster#Pirates_and_global_warming Kevin Schmidt

    You just pissed off all the Pastafarians!

    The Invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a sky-fairy! His mystical meatballs are real and he will strike you down with his noodly appendage!

    Pastafarians celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19. In celebration, maybe we can draw some pirates.

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    Actually felix, you are wrong. No religion comes close to the amount of atrocities committed by KKKristians over the centuries.

    Now thanks to the bogus Iraqi and Afghan wars OF terror, we can add almost two million more innocent Muslims killed in the name of KKKrisitianity.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    I guess we can yell “Fire!” in a crowded Mosque, but that doesn't mean its a good idea. As Richard Prior said: “Ya can't afford to ignore a billion of anything.” A provocation like this can cause big-time global irrationality.Not to mention that Muslims too have the right to religious dignity. You wouldn't want that house to fall on the next 6 generations.(There are still complaints about Richard the Third.)

  • TheFoundingFathers

    No. You get your facts straight. Muslims had a fatwa to attack up through Spain into France and take the rest of Europe around 900s. Ever heard of the Battle of Tours? There’s one particular religion that spreads by conquest. Guess which one it is. Which major religion’s prophet set “evangelism by conquest” as an example?
    Also the eastern empire was beseiged by muslims as well. Crusades were defensive.

    … and where are all you PC people when Comedy Central episodes aired disrespecting other religions? Why should one religion be exempt? esp such a bloody religion? consistently bloody since 619ad – that’s about 1500 years of expansion by conquest – bloody conquest.

    If, when free speech is challenged, there’s no response – just acquiescence … , then censorship by fear has won. Precisely b/c free speech is challenged by this group is the reason the Barbara Streisand effect should take hold.

  • AJ

    No one has the right to respond to criticism with the act of murder. Murderers deserve no respect. I do not say this just about Muslims, I mean anyone that uses their ideals as an excuse to commit violence on others (looking at Bush, Cheney et al). By making excuses you only embolden them and make them think they are right.

    Please ask Neville Chamberlain how appeasement and hand wringing worked for him.

  • TheFoundingFathers

    Schmidt, please link to your comments – where ever they might be – where you complained about disrespect to other religions. Esp Christianity. Oh wait. You disrespect them in your own comments by insinuating they’re all KKKs. How hypocritical. What an ass.

    Everyone!! What’s wrong with this picture? Kevin Schit derides supporters of the Comedy Central episode or Molly’s proposed cartoon day by claiming they’re disrespectful when he refers to Christians as he did above. How do you even know the posters you’re replying to are Christians? If you don’t know, then why disrespect them?

    You need to get off your pompous, self-righteous, high-horse and do some introspection. No wonder nobody likes you … at work or home.

  • Jim Lunsford

    I will smite them with my tomato sauce! lol

  • Jim Lunsford

    Hey buttfucker, Southpark people weren't even threatened. Of course, your dumb ass would have to be able to read before you could ever figure that out. If I told you a car was about to run you down as you tried to cross the road, would that make me guilty of trying to run you over? Hardly. Yet, your ignorant ass can't make that distinction. Sit down, learn to read, and then go fuck yourself. Your solutions are as ignorant as your logic.

  • justcommenting

    how would you know nobody likes him at home or work?

  • Benway for the Nova Police

    I should point out that all forms of Islam prohibit the making of images of ANY living thing. That's why you won't see pictures of living things in oriental rugs, except for rather abstracted pictures of flowers. AK-47s are, however, allowed, and you can actually find Afghan rugs that show these. Orthodox Judaism has similar rules, which is why you didn't have famous Jewish artists until relatively recently. Why is this so? In Judaism, at least, it derives from a kind of theological overkill. For example, the bible specifically says you can't boil a lamb in its mother's milk, which the rabbis have taken to mean you have to have a separate refrigerator for meat and dairy and you can't eat both at the same meal. As for graven images, the prohibition is against idolatry, which the rabbis have managed to transform into a prohibition on any kind of artwork. I assume the mullahs have fallen into the same absurdist pit.

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    I think we should draw pictures of the criminal U.S. Military personnel and CIA agents who control the poppy trade in Afghanistan just like a New Jersey crime family. Oh well, that's our tax dollars working very hardly for our benefit (to buy heroin on the street) !

    Oh and let's draw pictures of the tunnel that connects dick Cheney's new house in Langley, VA with CIA Headquarters located less than one mile away.

  • elf2012

    Well the point is that individuals like me (who happen to be Christian) constantly have our religion poked fun at, which often time does offend me but never to the point that I want to threaten an individual’s life. I just look at it as their own ignorance, hate, and/or bitterness that drives them to make fun of another person’s beliefs. That’s their problem though, not mine. It’s hardly fair to say that one person’s religion is fine to poke fun at while making jokes about another’s is “intolerant” or “insensitive”. Either you treat everyone equally or you take their right to free speech away. There is no in-between.

  • Jim Lunsford

    The christians follow the ten commandments (though they are not really christian commandments as there are only two commandments for christians. They being, love god, love thy neighbor. But that wasn't homicidal enough for them) and the second one is to not make any graven images.

  • henry porter

    “I mean, if I do not hear from moderate Muslims then how am I supposed to KNOW that they, too, are not harboring ill intent toward non-Muslims?! Please if you are a non-radical Muslim tell people about yourselves. Write to newspapers. Have community round tables. When Americans don’t know what you really think or feel, we might stay mired in stereotypes. Offer us knowledge!”

    The stupid, it burns. Maybe if this arrogant asshole would pull her head out of her 4th point of contact, she'd realize that muslim groups routinely issue statements condemning violence. There are 1.5 billion (more or less) muslims in the world, and this asshat thinks they should all offer statements to Americans every time something happens that makes her wet her pants?

    Not every american is a coward, nor is every american ignorant. Norris, however, is both. “Waaah, I published an offensive cartoon, because I can! But now that people took offense, I'm just a private person and not involved in it all”. Coward. You have the courage of your convictions, your principles–as long as you don't actually have to defend them. The very idea that stirring up a controversy would involve you in it!

    I liken this to the flag burning controversy. Yes, it's legal to do, and it will piss off your opponents. But it's stupid and counterproductive. Parker and Stone stopped trying to be funny a long time ago; now they're just trying to be offensive (more their strong suit anyway, I'd say).

  • Lying won’t help

    Please ignore the parent poster – he’s full of it.
    The crusades were one thing and one thing only – about raping and pillaging.

    Let’s face it, the west was ass-backward at the time.
    Lying about the past will not help anyone.

    The fact is that the middle east is far less enlightened than it was.
    The fact is that the west is far more enlightened than it was.

  • Jens

    Three things:

    1) Being Danish I saw the reactions first hand to the first cartoons done in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many people learned a lot from that experience, though it seems the rest of the world didn't with their constant need to draw Muhammed.
    2) Islam is today, according to Reuters, the worlds largest religion. More than 1.2 billion followers. How many people have so far been killed for drawing Muhammed? None…so what is the fear about? Media stunts from a bunch of pussies who can't get enough of constant attention and drama.
    3) Islam is only a danger to the West because of American/Israeli conduct in the region since 1948. Before that we had no problems with Islam or Arabs. We have inflicted this harm upon ourselves in our greed for Arab oil and Christian megalomania. I am partly responsible for the Gulf and North Africa, besides the UK as a Director of Human Resources, I have never ever for a single moment experienced any threats in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Abu Dhabi, Dubai or anywhere else from Muslims or Arabs besides being Danish and from the country who started the cartoon crises. We are the idiots…the Muslims are not busy drawing Jesus, because Jesus is a prophet in Islam and respected as much as Muhammed, and this goes for Moses as well. Therefore Islam does not see Christian or Jews as disbelievers. But Jews and Christians see Muslims as disbelievers and that is the real problem.

  • Erica

    This is a brilliant idea. Piss of the radical muslims!

  • Dude

    The whole situation is pretty ridiculous. CC should have never backed down to begin with. This notion will probably piss them off even more so lol

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  • Dude

    The whole situation is pretty ridiculous. CC should have never backed down to begin with. This notion will probably piss them off even more so lol

    Mark,
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  • whatever

    Someone already did pictures more or less or depictions. So I don't understand why they get their berkas in an uproar.

    http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/is…

  • Voice of Reason

    Just like when a few catholic priests molest kids and all catholics get shit about it, all muslims should get shit about the few MURDERING people for placing lines on a piece of paper in a particular order.

    I don't support any one religion but I do support all spiritual beliefs and even those that come from a religion.

    That being said, there needs to be a serious awakening and understanding that these people murdering others for their religious beliefs need to be separated from the rest of the group. The people who are standing next to these fanatics need to reprimand them with furious vengeance. These people are going to destroy the way everyone else in the world looks at YOU specifically.

    We are in a spell of labeling and grouping and until this is stopped we have no hope of our species becoming purely peaceful. The only way we can do this is to realize that most religions are spawned from a similar aspect but differ due to the differences in culture. Not just the differences in the way we live our life or art or w/e but the differences in the atmosphere and plants, nutrients, things in the water… These things change our perception, be it a slight or massive change it does not matter, the fact is there are differences and we need to understand these differences do not matter in the end.

    What does matter is that you do not take away someone else free will unless its absolutely necessary and that is a very hard thing to discern. When you murder someone for your religious beliefs, you are denying them their free will in the name of your god or prophet or whatever. Essentially the entity you are worshiping will have blood on their hands because they are directing and teaching you how to survive and advance in your current life state. So just think about that.

    This is directed at everyone, athiest/buddist/christian/muslim/pastafarian WHATEVER. QUIT BEING RETARDED!!!

  • Voice of Reason

    Just like when a few catholic priests molest kids and all catholics get shit about it, all muslims should get shit about the few MURDERING people for placing lines on a piece of paper in a particular order.

    I don't support any one religion but I do support all spiritual beliefs and even those that come from a religion.

    That being said, there needs to be a serious awakening and understanding that these people murdering others for their religious beliefs need to be separated from the rest of the group. The people who are standing next to these fanatics need to reprimand them with furious vengeance. These people are going to destroy the way everyone else in the world looks at YOU specifically.

    We are in a spell of labeling and grouping and until this is stopped we have no hope of our species becoming purely peaceful. The only way we can do this is to realize that most religions are spawned from a similar aspect but differ due to the differences in culture. Not just the differences in the way we live our life or art or w/e but the differences in the atmosphere and plants, nutrients, things in the water… These things change our perception, be it a slight or massive change it does not matter, the fact is there are differences and we need to understand these differences do not matter in the end.

    What does matter is that you do not take away someone else free will unless its absolutely necessary and that is a very hard thing to discern. When you murder someone for your religious beliefs, you are denying them their free will in the name of your god or prophet or whatever. Essentially the entity you are worshiping will have blood on their hands because they are directing and teaching you how to survive and advance in your current life state. So just think about that.

    This is directed at everyone, athiest/buddist/christian/muslim/pastafarian WHATEVER. QUIT BEING RETARDED!!!

  • MikieK

    I am a fan of the first amendment. The privileges it grants us is always used for good. It lets me and my church go to soldiers' funerals and protest. Their families need to know their sons died because of our nations tolerance of fags.

  • MikieK

    I am a fan of the first amendment. The privileges it grants us is always used for good. It lets me and my church go to soldiers' funerals and protest. Their families need to know their sons died because of our nations tolerance of fags.

  • Rezilient

    Ok so why do we think it is a good idea to insult and mock someone's religion just for the jokes? This is obviously something that Muslims feel is very important to them, and the moderate Muslims who are your neighbors are going to be grossly offended by this. Let Muslims worship in peace, there is no need to insult them. This will only make the crazies more crazy, which is a huge minority given there are 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world and obviously there hasn't been mass murder and mayhem, just small spats of extremism, as usual. I just don't see the point of this…

  • Rezilient

    Ok so why do we think it is a good idea to insult and mock someone's religion just for the jokes? This is obviously something that Muslims feel is very important to them, and the moderate Muslims who are your neighbors are going to be grossly offended by this. Let Muslims worship in peace, there is no need to insult them. This will only make the crazies more crazy, which is a huge minority given there are 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world and obviously there hasn't been mass murder and mayhem, just small spats of extremism, as usual. I just don't see the point of this…

  • ThomasMc

    If Muslim clerics are going to threaten our Constitutional rights, then maybe we need to start thinking about Muslim Cleric Hunting Season. If they are going to be threatening our lives, then I think turn about is fair play.

  • ThomasMc

    If Muslim clerics are going to threaten our Constitutional rights, then maybe we need to start thinking about Muslim Cleric Hunting Season. If they are going to be threatening our lives, then I think turn about is fair play.

  • NewMuslim

    Muslims believe in having good manners and in respecting other people regardless of their beliefs. Good manners and respect never go out of style.

    It is out of respect for the Prophet (pbuh) that we do not make images of him. There is no superstition involved.

    Peace.

  • NewMuslim

    Muslims believe in having good manners and in respecting other people regardless of their beliefs. Good manners and respect never go out of style.

    It is out of respect for the Prophet (pbuh) that we do not make images of him. There is no superstition involved.

    Peace.

  • brdy

    outh park?

  • NewMuslim

    Thank you for your kind words. You are correct that Islam and Christianity have a lot in common. As a Muslim, I am following the teachings of Jesus and doing the good as he instructed far more than I ever did (or even knew to do) while I was a Christian.

    My first “Aha!” moment when learning about Islam was realizing that what the Prophet said, simply put, was, “Do what God and Jesus said. And here’s some additional stuff to make your life better.”

  • NewMuslim

    Thank you for your kind words. You are correct that Islam and Christianity have a lot in common. As a Muslim, I am following the teachings of Jesus and doing the good as he instructed far more than I ever did (or even knew to do) while I was a Christian.

    My first “Aha!” moment when learning about Islam was realizing that what the Prophet said, simply put, was, “Do what God and Jesus said. And here’s some additional stuff to make your life better.”

  • NewMuslim

    the Prophet (pbuh)

  • NewMuslim

    the Prophet (pbuh)

  • frostfire451

    I you worship an image , it is idolatry, is the faith so weak that an image of muhammed can shake it beyond its foundations?!

  • frostfire451

    I you worship an image , it is idolatry, is the faith so weak that an image of muhammed can shake it beyond its foundations?!

  • bantalbusuk

    “When Americans don’t know what you really think or feel, we might stay mired in stereotypes. Offer us knowledge!”

    I dunno but this sentence on how this cartoonist has singled out Americans make it sound like Americans are ignorant. It also makes it sound that Americans are waiting to be taught rather than learn for themselves. She calls out for non-radical Muslims to step up and educate the non-Muslims. I feel that if this woman really wants to know what non-radical Islam is, why not make a Muslim friend? There are thousands of Muslims in America. She makes it sound like the non-radicals have to come out and put on some sort of show for the non-Muslims. They aren't circus bears! And come on, educate the non-Muslims? There are so many mediums out there to learn from. I wanna know what Ms Norris really wants? Someone to come up to her to her face and explain to her how things are done? Hasn't she heard of literature? Videos? Lectures? They're all to educate and please don't tell me she doesn't have the means to get a hold of these things. The first step to understanding something is to take the effort to do just that. Not to wait to be told. I would seriously recommend that she meet up with some average Joes who happens to be a Muslims. What's the point of depicting the Prophet? What are you gonna get out of it in the end? I don't see a point.

    “Offer us knowledge!”

    What you wanna be spoon fed? Get of your cartoonist posterior and go find some. Geez. I don't go around asking people from other religions to Offer me knowledge! I find out for myself and ask them later. Really, it's ignorance and arrogance like this that makes me happy I live outside of the West.

  • qoqo

    (o)(o) <—– Muhammad

    Crude, but probably effective.

  • Jim Lunsford

    Keep reading these comments and then ask if it can be a safe assumption that Americans are ignorant. Most of these morons couldn't cross the street without assistance.

  • bantalbusuk

    Culture has nothing to do with religion. If anything, culture gets in the way of religion. There's no difference in the way for example, Islam is practiced in China with Islam practiced in, I dunno, New Zealand. Or Bhuddism for that matter. It should be the same but because we're the way we are, we allow ourselves to believe religion is not universal. I understand that you don't support any one religion but you should look at it from a pious person's perspective. But you're right, our differences shouldn't matter.

    I'm a religious person, and I'm in no way radical, I don't harbour any ill will to those of other religions, but when people like this Ms Norris start telling non-radical Muslims to educate her and other Americans, I get upset because why is it that I am actively learning about other people's religion, teaching myself at the same time, and Ms Norris gets away with trying to get people to educate her instead of putting in effort of her own. She sounds like a very far reaching person who should think about what she says before she says it

  • bantalbusuk

    Culture has nothing to do with religion. If anything, culture gets in the way of religion. There's no difference in the way for example, Islam is practiced in China with Islam practiced in, I dunno, New Zealand. Or Bhuddism for that matter. It should be the same but because we're the way we are, we allow ourselves to believe religion is not universal. I understand that you don't support any one religion but you should look at it from a pious person's perspective. But you're right, our differences shouldn't matter.

    I'm a religious person, and I'm in no way radical, I don't harbour any ill will to those of other religions, but when people like this Ms Norris start telling non-radical Muslims to educate her and other Americans, I get upset because why is it that I am actively learning about other people's religion, teaching myself at the same time, and Ms Norris gets away with trying to get people to educate her instead of putting in effort of her own. She sounds like a very far reaching person who should think about what she says before she says it

  • Abdul

    I want to see Mohammad in full drag with ruby red lipstick

  • Abdul

    I want to see Mohammad in full drag with ruby red lipstick

  • bantalbusuk

    “When Americans don’t know what you really think or feel, we might stay mired in stereotypes… Offer us knowledge!”

    She makes it sound as if she/Americans wants to be spoon fed to find out what non-radical Muslims are like. I urge her to go get a Muslim friend and figure things out for herself instead of waiting to be taught. What I want to know is what is it she actually wants? For someone to come up to her face and explain to her how things are done? There are other mediums to gain education/knowledge. Lectures, videos, books, having an actual Muslim friend to explain things. First step to having knowledge like this is taking the effort in gaining just that. She should pick up a book on Islam to get basic knowledge on what its like, then have someone educate her. She is way in over her head if she thinks that having some non-radical put on a show like a circus bear and expect to understand what is going on. That is, of course, if she really means it that she wants to be educated. Pick up a book Ms Norris.

  • http://www.thesnotgreensea.com Brian A. Caldwell

    There should be no threatening of anyone, but embedded in certain Scriptures are inherent threats, both the Bible and Koran have these toward non-believers. That is why the scriptures themselves must be questioned and examined. All “fundamentalists” claim theirs is the True Way, from little cult compounds in Michigan to large Military Complexes in Colorado Springs, to Al-Qaeda training camps in the Swat Valley. If I say “I wash my hands of the whole thing, and want nothing to do with any of it,” that will be interpreted as the sayings of Pontius Pilate. Religious scriptures and other texts “box you in” to leave you no option. The Bible promises Hell. The Koran suggests death to the infidel as well. If you don't read the scriptures they claim as perfect, you won't know how inherently threatening not certain individuals, but the basic texts themselves really are. But I'm not an “Atheist,” ultimately. Just not willing to accept veiled threats in the form of a book that people refer to and don't take personal responsibility for what they are referring to inside those books. By the way, my birthday is May 20 so I felt a little Jungian about that and it didn't seem quite right to me.

  • http://www.mollynorris.com molly

    Dear Raw Story,
    I didn't set up the facebook page, someone else did.
    I only made a cartoon that went viral and I am not part of any group.
    Will you please fix your article?
    The info is on my site at http://www.mollynorris.com
    Thanks.

  • Kate

    First off, I'm very much against censorship, except in a limited amount of necessary cases. That being said, I disagree with the cartoonist, even though she clearly has good intentions.

    Part of the Muslim faith is not to show images of Muhammed. Out of respect to the majority of Muslim people who ARE NOT homicidal jihadists, non-Muslims should not mock their faith by portraying Muhammed. I'm not saying corporations or the gtovernment or whatever should or should not intervene and censor things-I don't know either way.

    Furthermore, I think this “images of Muhammed” thing is a creative cop out. The only reason that anyone is thinking about this at all is because it's forbidden by the MUSLIM faith.

    So, wait….you're telling me you want to do something that pisses off Muslims? ooooo, you rebel, you! How RARE!

    I think it takes a lot MORE guts to be respectful to Muslims. It doesn't feel as “good,” sure, but that's just in the short term. In the long term, it'll force you to be develop ACTUAL creative talent, and not just the ability to shock.

  • Youwillsee

    You're foolish.

  • AmanJohn

    This is actually really offensive to Muslims because they believe that to depict a prophet is to make people focus on their appearance rather than what they did as people. It's sad that “Westerner's” can't understand this and in their ignorance end up suggesting that people hurt 1.7 billion people on this earth. Drawing Muhammad to Muslims would be like telling all non blacks that “hey! May 22nd is say the word 'N***er' a lot day”. I understand that the person who post this doesn't understand this, but I'm extending to you the knowledge to reconsider your actions.

  • Josh

    This is awesome. The extremists who would kill or even threaten someone over this kind of thing need to see that their actions only lead to more of what they so violently hate.

    Every time someone kills someone over a cartoon I'd like to see thousands of copycat cartoons. I'm sad that other Muslims would have to suffer what they consider offensive blasphemy as a result, but it makes me happy to think that it would be as a result of the actions of those who claim to be so religiously adherent that they take it to a violent level. For a man who would kill someone over blasphemy, to see that his actions have led directly to exponentially more blasphemy is the ultimate kick in the crotch. And that's what he deserves, hundreds of thousands of ultimate kicks in the crotch. And for all his religious buddies to say “why did you do that asshole? You caused all this insult to The Prophet”. You.

  • Islam through its teenage

    I read somewhere that every religion has gone through these stages of terrorizing people, Judaism, Christianity… now its Islam, religion go through their teenage…rebel / confused and some just demented.

    South Park creators are Jews so they decided to not mock their prophet Moses, if you want to mock other's beliefs, then first do so with your own at the same level. I have never seen they mocking Judaism, then why, mock Christianity, Islam or Buddhism? No Prophets has ever told anyone to kill or terrorize… its just some f@#k up who just think they are just superior to others, they think its our way or highway to hell.

    We just need to respect others and their beliefs.

  • http://classic.buzzflash.com/?time=12 Kevin Schmidt

    ThomasMc says, “turn about is fair play”.

    You are an extremely dangerous racist. How can you see what you are typing with that white sheet over your head???

    What kind of “turn about” do you suggest for the U.S. immoral, illegal, imperialist, genocidal wars OF terror to steal and control oil and to steal U.S. tax dollars?

    Muslims may be advocating violence against people who insult their religion, but we are committing real violence against them for blood money profits.

    I think this story is a set up designed to demonize Muslims so we can justify killing millions more of them.

    How is the U.S. committing genocide against Muslims not the same as Nazis committing genocide against the Jews?

  • Jim Lunsford

    This idiot is just a typical commenter on this site. Stupid and proof our country has gone the way of every other great civilization. Straight to stupid town.

    Josh (unregistered) wrote:

    This is awesome. The extremists who would kill or even threaten someone over this kind of thing need to see that their actions only lead to more of what they so violently hate.

    Every time someone kills someone over a cartoon I'd like to see thousands of copycat cartoons. I'm sad that other Muslims would have to suffer what they consider offensive blasphemy as a result, but it makes me happy to think that it would be as a result of the actions of those who claim to be so religiously adherent that they take it to a violent level. For a man who would kill someone over blasphemy, to see that his actions have led directly to exponentially more blasphemy is the ultimate kick in the crotch. And that's what he deserves, hundreds of thousands of ultimate kicks in the crotch. And for all his religious buddies to say “why did you do that asshole? You caused all this insult to The Prophet”. You.

    Now note how this fucktard is so pious and self-righteous that he has overlooked every bit of logic and reason in his infantile logic. One, there was no threat, there was an observation. Two, we are the hateful ignorant psychopathic nation that is illegaly invading/occupying/commiting genocidd on others. We are committing terrorism against the world. Fuck all of you ignorant fuckingmorons. The real enemy is yourselves. That and the stupid government you support. Luckily, our government has fucked up our economy so much, made so many enemies around the world, squandered every resource on stupid ventures, and is now preparing to start another war, and a trade war with China it will not win. I say lucky, as in lucky for the world. For a nation as full of idiots as this poster deserves the shithole we are going to be living in. Fuck all of you cocksucking racist idiots.

  • David R Velasquez

    I’m annoyed… so far they didn’t post my reply.
    I’ll try not to repeat that post…(in case it turns up later)
    You’re right, we invaded them. And, we (not me necessarily) support Israel unconditionally most of the time. We also practically trained and financially supported their extremists in the 1970′s. We gave birth to the iranian Islamic Revolution by supporting the ruthless political despot Shah Reza Pahvlavi and we trained the Taliban just to humiliate the russians. The current situation is one of our making.
    The biblical scripture engraved gun scopes are a sick freakin’ joke… that’s obviously meant as an insult to the intended targets as well as inculcating the shooter with a crusades mindset.
    Be that as it may, millions economic refugees (mostly invited workers) wander westward and now here we are. We tend to collectively embrace diversity… cristofascists notwithstanding… but there is certain sticking points where there will always be a clash of cultures. If they come to us then do they not have to accept some fundamental principles that even we ourselves struggle to adhere to, such as freedom of expression/speech/press etc, and respecting the rights of women?

  • Milez

    South park – Season 10, Episode 9.

    No one in South Park is safe from the people who are the real brains behind the 9/11 conspiracy. When Kyle and Stan hit the road in search of the truth, they come face-to-face with the masterminds who pulled off the most elaborate, intricate and flawlessly executed operation in American history..

  • molly

    Hi!
    There is no place to send any drawings.
    This is a FICTIONAL cartoon of a poster that went viral.
    I did not start a facebook page, someone else did.
    I posted my cartoon on facebook was all.
    My whole point of the cartoon was about free speech, not about disrespect.
    Thank you,
    Molly

  • m3t

    They stated it as a probability, true… and published addresses, etc. of those they prophesised to be victims.

    It’s like me expressing outrage, saying someone will probably kill you… AND posting your home address on-line…

    Thinly veiled threats are still threats, no matter what excuses people wish to make.

  • David R Velasquez

    Get your facts straight.
    If you’re going to reach that far into history then you have to take a more comprehensive view of it. The moslems didn’t invade… they were already there. The romans were the invaders and occupiers since before Christ…obviously. The inhabitants were always the same tribes that followed zoroastrianism, mithraism, judaism, yezidi…. zoroastrianism and yezidi continue to exist but suffer persecution by followers of the other two main religions.
    The romans were just occupiers for a period of time. Yes, theirs was a christian empire but it didn’t meant that everyone under their dominion were also christian.

  • http://twitter.com/Tiak Robert Picone

    South Park did that, perfectly I might add, 4 seasons ago, where have you been?

  • m3t

    Both religions:

    - encourage belief in the irrational and unsubstantiated (encouraging delusion).
    - encourage their followers to shove their religion down other people’s throats.
    - stand in the way of science and human progress.
    - are known for causing wars and violence over the centuries.

    They are merely cults of utter delusion, leading people to suffer from irrational thought and psychological illness.

    Xtians, Muslims and their redundant, archaic, backward belief systems deserve as much respect as anyone that thinks Shrek is a factual story based on real events.

    You fantacists, especially the fanatical/extremist ones and the blood your religions have spilled in the name of perpetuating belief in nonsense makes me want to puke, you represent the exact opposite of progress and evolution, you are holding back the human race and should be damn well ashamed of yourselves.

  • Freeviking79

    Every belief should be questioned until it becomes rational to human mind. The moment we stop criticising beliefes/religion/theories we are pressing the pause button on human progress. Just imagine where we would be today if the great minds of gone centuries did not dare to criticise the scientific dogmas of their time. Islam is no different, its teachings should be critically anlyzed and re-evaluated for the sake of humanity as it is seriously challenging the values of modern society. Those who say that what we see today is not the real Islam should stand up and show the world what is this real Islam they are talking about (if there exists any other version of Islam other than what we see today). This whole stupid argument of mis-interpretation is not acceptable anymore. If a book is causing such confusion in the minds of people and its misinterpretation is affecting millions of people around the world, it should be discarded without a second thought. I hope for a better tomorrow where I can call a spade a spade without the fear of getting killed.

  • Freeviking79

    Every belief should be questioned until it becomes rational to human mind. The moment we stop criticising beliefes/religion/theories we are pressing the pause button on human progress. Just imagine where we would be today if the great minds of gone centuries did not dare to criticise the scientific dogmas of their time. Islam is no different, its teachings should be critically anlyzed and re-evaluated for the sake of humanity as it is seriously challenging the values of modern society. Those who say that what we see today is not the real Islam should stand up and show the world what is this real Islam they are talking about (if there exists any other version of Islam other than what we see today). This whole stupid argument of mis-interpretation is not acceptable anymore. If a book is causing such confusion in the minds of people and its misinterpretation is affecting millions of people around the world, it should be discarded without a second thought. I hope for a better tomorrow where I can call a spade a spade without the fear of getting killed.

  • anon

    I think it's stupid to threaten anyone over a cartoon but this whole thing sounds pretty insulting to the moderate muslims all over the world. There are over a billion of them and they come in all varities just like any other human beings. You just can't generalise a billion people.

    The only thing this will do is add more fuel to the fire and further divide the people when in fact what you as an artist should've done is look for a way to unite the people. There must be better ways to protest than this.

  • kim

    Hatred breeds hatred. This is just that. Hatred and insult to fight hatred. Way to go 'artist'!

  • NewMuslim

    I invite you to read the Sayings of Mohammed and the Qur'an and see if you understand Islam more than you do now.

  • Lousie

    Check out the facebook page and the album. Exactly what I thought this would come to. Just plain insulting and probably what the author intended. If this is free speech, why can't we make fun of the jews like that? black people? Why the double standards? Free speech is just an illusion.

  • Lousie

    Check out the facebook page and the album. Exactly what I thought this would come to. Just plain insulting and probably what the author intended. If this is free speech, why can't we make fun of the jews like that? black people? Why the double standards? Free speech is just an illusion.

  • NewMuslim

    This must be a difficult time for you. It is for me, too, to see the anger and distrust my fellow Americans feel toward my religion. (Of course, you'd think I'd be used to it having been a Democrat in a Red State all my life.)

    I hope you meant no disrespect and will draw cartoons that will not incite so many fireworks.

    Peace.

  • NN

    You talk about freedom yet you yourselves are not free…in any aspect for that matter…ur jailed in an invisible prison that your government, banks & secret societies put you in…you're brainwashed to think a certain thing without even doing the basic research to find out the truth…just like herding cattle following their shepherd or rather bark like dogs to get some attention…

    Instead of caring so much for freedom of speech…care for your personal education & awareness before attacking sacred things…everything has a limit…but unfortunately you haters don't know the definition of principles…even away from the sacredness of any religion…poor ignorants!

  • NN

    You talk about freedom yet you yourselves are not free…in any aspect for that matter…ur jailed in an invisible prison that your government, banks & secret societies put you in…you're brainwashed to think a certain thing without even doing the basic research to find out the truth…just like herding cattle following their shepherd or rather bark like dogs to get some attention…

    Instead of caring so much for freedom of speech…care for your personal education & awareness before attacking sacred things…everything has a limit…but unfortunately you haters don't know the definition of principles…even away from the sacredness of any religion…poor ignorants!

  • NewMuslim

    Thank you.

  • NewMuslim

    You're brilliant.

  • Lop Dopla

    I will quit being retarded but i can still be religious, right?

  • Freeviking79

    I will not read it because all I can see is that those people who read it, studied it for years are blowing up towers, train stations and subways. If its only a few number of people we could have ignored it as few fanatics but alas!, its large number of people all over the world doing the same thing in the name of same religion. If 10 people eat from a restaurant and most of them get sick I would definitely assume that the reason behind sickness is the food. Don't you think it is logical? Or if you think there is a peaceful Islam which is hijacked by fanatics, my friend, dont waste a minute, STANDUP and speak, organize rallies protests, condemn the barbaric acts. But unfortunately what we see from muslims is only protests organised against cartoons with hate slogans, burning embassies and issuing fatwas. To me the peaceful Muslims only exists in internet forums. So I urge you my friend to STANDUP and SHOUT if your religion is being hijacked and save all the muslim brothers and sisters before they fall in the trap of fanatics. Until the world see this clear signal from peaceful muslims, the word 'moderate muslim' will remain as an oxymoron. God bless U

  • Timothy Talmen

    Good luck with this, I honestly don’t see this as being successful. You’ll probably end up dead, young lady, but it’s your funeral. But hey, look at the bright-side, maybe Fox News or CNN might cover this story……..and your funeral. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

  • memike

    i’m agnostic, i don’t think it’s ever a good idea to mock someone’s religious figures. i’m skeptical of all religions, but if this stuff (any of the big 4 religions) is true, it is the most important thing in life. if not, it’s not. if i were a cartoonist, i’d instead, draw pictures of god, yahweh, and allah. they would be identical pictures. and they would piss off even more people, which apparently is the point.

  • Antony

    If one of your basic rights is being challenged – in this case, freedom of speech – the only response is to prove that you have the right. If someone says that you're not allowed to sit at the front of the bus, you sit at the front of a bus. If someone says you're not allowed to say what you think, you scream it from the top of a hill. And if someone says you're not allowed to draw the Prophet Mohammed, you get all your mates to doodle the hell out of him.

    The team from South Park weren't politely asked to respect a belief, they were threatened with death. I'm not saying to be a jerk every day. But if someone's challenging your rights, ya have to be. Yep, it may antagonise. But that's the point.

  • BC

    Its just lovely how 50-70 years ago when the Christian United States of America ran this country and discriminated against Blacks with slavery and concentration camps for Asians and allowed organizations such as the KKK to be a acceptable ideology in every day life; Now after this many years Americans have suddenly become freedom crusaders across the whole world spreading there own hypocritical politics and views of democracy. Just, because many of you posters on here have either lost faith, never believed in god, or don't passionately care for your religion make it sound like religion isn't a huge part of every day life in America and in the World. Because, Muslims are more outspoken then American Christians they are consider automatically Islamic extremists. Muslims are simply more devoted and passionate about their religion than modern Christians and don't allow their faith to be mistreated, but looking back at those years you will find that these same actions have been used by your own faith in order to protect themselves and are still used in certain parts of the “democratic” western world. Many of you have spend too much time on preaching your own belief of whats wrong and whats right and forgot to look at the situation of others and there beliefs, which in part makes you just as big of a extremist as them in shoving your own belief against theirs.

  • http://www.themoviedownloads.net/free-movie-downloads/free-movie-downloads-your-favorite-classics/ Moviedownloads

    The thing is, we don't respect any other culture or religion. Look at the last episode of south park, Jesus was looking at porn and Buddha was snorting cocaine, but they couldn't even say “Mohamed” these things shouldn't be off limits, no matter how tasteless.

  • http://www.themoviedownloads.net/free-movie-downloads/free-movie-downloads-your-favorite-classics/ Moviedownloads

    The thing is, we don't respect any other culture or religion. Look at the last episode of south park, Jesus was looking at porn and Buddha was snorting cocaine, but they couldn't even say “Mohamed” these things shouldn't be off limits, no matter how tasteless.

  • Anonymous

    “Racist”? How the hell can that be racist?
    I never said anything about race!

    Self-defense is not racism, you REACTIONARY MORON !!!

  • ChrisKnight

    I invite you to check out http://www.thereligionofpeace.com so perhaps you can get a first hand look at the numbers daily, weekly and monthly stats of killings by your “brothers”. So friggin many, they gotta keep a score card daily.

  • ChrisKnight

    The jews and blacks have been made fun of for a long time with no end in sight. Who is holding you back from joining the crowd?

  • Anonymous

    Jim,
    Don’t assume. I am in the Infantry. First off, we don’t use M16s, we use M4s. Also, I have never seen bible verses on scopes ever. You are probably saying BS right now. Well, the fact that it is against Army SOP to modify or paint your weapon without higher commands approval gives credence to what I say. Also, if you are going to talk about crusades, learn about your history and research about the Battle of Tours and other incursions into Eastern Europe and the siege of Vienna. We didn’t start the crusades. Also, as a soldier who has served overseas, I can tell you that it is not a crusade and that we are there to help villages who are oppressed by radicals who cut the heads off of anyone who uses their cellphones during the day, etc. Also, due to your vitriolic message I seriously doubt ability to predict the future trends with China. Have a nice day.

  • Anonymous

    Holla!
    Hey they all have the same god of war, that Yaweh dude as their epicenter. No really, he was the Jew’s god of war when they were polytheistic. Then back in the day, they were gettin’ their asses kicked all over the desert so they made him their main guy, (so they could at least tell stories at night about how their bad ass god was gonna get all the bastards one day) and the world has been better for it ever since, would you not agree?

  • Anonymous

    LA is the …. (I have no word for it) place on earth. And I love it. HA!

  • http://www.southparkstudios.com JackSon

    EVERYONE DRAW MUHAMMAD AND POST IT

  • http://www.southparkstudios.com JackSon

    EVERYONE DRAW MUHAMMAD AND POST IT

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  • Observer

    what happend to the crime of terroristic threatening — take down their site and change the people responsible. Plain and simple it's not the religion race, it's the human race. Additionally when people respond in a child like fashion it means they havent developed as men/wemon…

  • Observer

    what happend to the crime of terroristic threatening — take down their site and change the people responsible. Plain and simple it's not the religion race, it's the human race. Additionally when people respond in a child like fashion it means they havent developed as men/wemon…

  • Observer

    what happend to the crime of terroristic threatening — take down their site and change the people responsible. Plain and simple it's not the religion race, it's the human race. Additionally when people respond in a child like fashion it means they havent developed as men/wemon…

  • Dale

    Free speech? You talk about it as if there are no consequences to what comes out of your mouth. Fine, you can say whatever you want. But you will have to deal with the consequences. If you say the sky is brown, people will think your crazy. If say something inflammatory, people will get angry. That’s just how things are. And now people are angry… as a consequence of them talking shit about Mohammad.

    Muslim’s have a right to free speech too. And we have every right to respond.

    Comedy Central is a comedy network. They make jokes for a living. Matt and Trey talk about “intimidation and fear” as if Comedy Central is some anti-terrorist organization that’s trying to go up against Al-Qaida. They’re not. Comedy Central is a business, and it’s a wise business decision to censor those episodes and save their own ass.

  • fukum

    Sounds like a little kid made this up, like the draw the turkey contest at thanksgiving time in the local paper.

    Buncha whiney bastards

  • collegekid

    I'm an enlightened, educated, peaceful, law abiding Muslim citizen. I won't add 'moderate' because I have no idea what that's construed as, but I do hope that plethora of labels is quite sufficient for you.
    I don't hate non Muslims, am an advocate of freedom, be it of speech or assembly, so I venture to say I understand Norris' intentions. But because I'm also an advocate of rationality and responsibility and fail to see what purpose this day would achieve without producing results that would negate any progress in the way of free speech, I can't say I support this and will in fact go further on to say it's simply ignorant to believe hurting religious sentiments will further any well intentioned cause.

  • http://betello.blogspot.com Ziad El Adawy

    well .. this this is the new secular world order ppl !! they want to eliminate religion from all aspects of life !! whether it is Judaism.. Christianity.. or Islam … Cos all of these religions call for harmony, peace and all the good deeds .. and that's exactly what they dont want .. they want more wars .. so they can sell more weapons and arms .. they want you and me .. to be dragged to mundane arguments that will do nthin good to the world we live in.. if you want to make fun of specific group of ppl .. u can do .. but u dont have to show it to them coz it is insensitive and rude .. Imagine a world with no wars … and everyone is doing what they like, and holding respect to others.

  • Anonymous

    While i disagree with you, i know your reaction is in ignorance

    and i forgive you for it, child.

  • Jim Lunsford

    Maybe you should look at the casualty lists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to see how many murders our side are committing in the name of more money for the very rich.

  • Youwillsee

    Matthew 10:34 (King James Version)

    34: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

  • Youwillsee

    Luke 19:27 (King James Version)

    27: But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

  • fukum

    You don't buy (all that) bull, do you?

  • fukum

    You don't buy (all that) bull, do you?

  • Youwillsee

    “I can't say I support this and will in fact go further on to say it's simply ignorant to believe hurting religious sentiments will further any well intentioned cause.”

    Tell that to the Pilgrims and those who fled the Church of England.

    Would you prefer to live under the US Constitutional-Law or Sharia-Law… in what country do you live?

  • Freedom

    I learned all I need to know about Islam on 9/11.

  • Youwillsee

    “I won't add 'moderate' because I have no idea what that's construed as”

    Try this for an explanation… “Religious Moderates”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82YIluFmdbs

  • nikesoul

    cool.

  • Youwillsee

    No… It was just for reference purposes.

    Though it has some good teachings, one does not need the Buy-Bull or other spiritual storybooks to be good.

  • Youwillsee

    Lets all live in peace… Maybe someday when we face reality?

    What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims–and Why Does It Matter?

    http://hnn.us/articles/934.html

  • Mike

    Free speech and threats of murder and bodily harm are completely different!

  • Youwillsee

    Osama bina Laden is a Sunni Muslim. To him the end of the reign of the caliphs in the 1920s was catastrophic, as he made clear in a videotape made after 9-11. On the tape, broadcast by Al-Jazeera on October 7, 2001, he proclaimed: “What America is tasting now is only a copy of what we have tasted. … Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more [than] eighty years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated.”

    http://hnn.us/articles/934.html

  • Timtamslam

    Fabulous!! I am definitely joining in!!

  • jesus

    you religion is stupid if you get this worked up about a cartoon.

  • lisawillis

    I like this, it's time we stand up to the bullies that the radical muslims really are. If we don't who will?

  • Faff

    @Freedom That is one of the most strikingly ignorant things I've ever heard. You might as well say that you learned everything you need to know about Christianity from the KKK.

  • LaMer

    i get it. fundamentalism sucks. But seriously, what if someone were doing something equally offensive to the jewish, hindu or catholic religion?????

  • Youwillsee

    All God(s) can't be right… All Gods can be wrong? What sounds good to you?

    The Greeks used their myths to interpret and understand the world around them.
    Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Poseidon, Zeus,

    The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthrew them. The ruler of the Titans was Cronus who was de-throned by his son Zeus.

    I'm sure there is a few more Gods that could be added to this list… after-all it's 2010 :-/

  • Youwillsee

    All God(s) can't be right… All Gods can be wrong? What sounds good to you?

    The Greeks used their myths to interpret and understand the world around them.
    Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Hestia, Poseidon, Zeus,

    The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthrew them. The ruler of the Titans was Cronus who was de-throned by his son Zeus.

    I'm sure there is a few more Gods that could be added to this list… after-all it's 2010 :-/

  • Youwillsee

    Like respecting Jim Jones and …?

  • goodtimes19

    I actually created a very simple blog muhammadgangbang.com , and setup a cash contest to find the best and/or most offensive muhammad image.

    Also hoping to create a day on saturday may 29th where we all go to radical mosques in the states and maybe europe with picket signs containing the images of muhammad in various situations.

    Good times

  • http://octenol-mosquito-attractant.blogspot.com kurt

    YA ALLAH..how can he so brave to do this

  • afdsaf

    awesome. i love freedom of speech.

  • Peegee

    In the episodes in question you have Krishna doing cocaine and Jesus was openly surfing the internet for Porn. The entire episode could easily be construed to be offensive to an enormous amount of individuals and yet they cannot depict one dead man because of the potential for violence?

    As far as I'm concerned if a person were to threaten violence as a retaliation for possible behaviour, that person would be punished. Censoring yourself or punishing yourself prior to even acting on an expression is a very scary response, especially considering your country has one of the most openly free interpretation for freedom of speech.

    I hope this episode galvanizes a huge response – freedom of speech is sancrosant; any assault on it should be responded with as much vigor as to match or exceed the threat.

  • Finally!

    Its about time, what makes Muslims so special that we can make fun of any other religion but when it comes to them they threaten with violence.

  • BwkB

    Your comment is true about the rich bit, but you can't respect country's that has its own people killing each other for religion. Suicide bombers are cowardly monsters. The only people i feel sorry for are the ones that want out of that hell hole but have no where to go. If i was the Prime Minister i'd open my arms to all of em.

  • EricVl

    Islam is the the single worst religion when it comes to threats and “respect”. Islam demands ultimate respect from everyone and every government, yet it gives absolutely none back. What a pathetic excuse for a “religion”. Here's a fun fact – the “prophet” Mohammed, who in reality according to best historical record, was an illiterate merchant. He was then spirited up to “heaven” on a flaming chariot, dictated religious laws, and set back to read them to people. But he couldn't read. Another fun fact – about 70% of the Quran is identical to the bible, and most literary historians who study liturgical texts believe that Mohammed clearly plagiarized the bible in writing the Quran. A serving of truth for ya!

    Sources:
    No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
    God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

  • EricVl

    Islam is the the single worst religion when it comes to threats and “respect”. Islam demands ultimate respect from everyone and every government, yet it gives absolutely none back. What a pathetic excuse for a “religion”. Here's a fun fact – the “prophet” Mohammed, who in reality according to best historical record, was an illiterate merchant. He was then spirited up to “heaven” on a flaming chariot, dictated religious laws, and set back to read them to people. But he couldn't read. Another fun fact – about 70% of the Quran is identical to the bible, and most literary historians who study liturgical texts believe that Mohammed clearly plagiarized the bible in writing the Quran. A serving of truth for ya!

    Sources:
    No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
    God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

  • EricVl

    Islam is the the single worst religion when it comes to threats and “respect”. Islam demands ultimate respect from everyone and every government, yet it gives absolutely none back. What a pathetic excuse for a “religion”. Here's a fun fact – the “prophet” Mohammed, who in reality according to best historical record, was an illiterate merchant. He was then spirited up to “heaven” on a flaming chariot, dictated religious laws, and set back to read them to people. But he couldn't read. Another fun fact – about 70% of the Quran is identical to the bible, and most literary historians who study liturgical texts believe that Mohammed clearly plagiarized the bible in writing the Quran. A serving of truth for ya!

    Sources:
    No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
    God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

  • Fekar'ah

    Throughout the course of history, the conquests of man have been strictly Egotistical, from tribes warring against one another to slavery starting in Africa; from one “true” religious doctrine versus another; from territorial disputes to wars over resources.

    Ego is the catalyst for the suppression of peace. Is our species capable of peace? Not universally. Conflict and violence are the engines of evolution. However, a lack of understanding and blatant mockery will spawn serious revolts.

    This is a horrible idea that will be seen as insult to injury. I was raised Catholic but began to see the bastardization of Christianity by the Church. I didn't care much for religion, so I gave it up. As I got older, I began to revisit religion — all religion — for historical significance, and was surprised at what I found. The vast majority of our history has been shaped by religion and conflict, and the vast majority of this has been overlooked by standardized text books. History is written by the victor, and each nation mandates their own histories for their people. In short, Ego shapes everything.

    The Muslim religion, at its core, is a beautiful addendum to Judeo-Christianity. The verse is posed eloquently, the morals are sound. But like any great and subtle work, meaning can be questioned and radicals form different views than the masses. The Qu'ran and its followers were chastised by early/mid Christians not for it's views on God/Allah, but out of a power struggle in Rome and the world. It was seen as a threat to the preexisting powers in Europe.

    That conflict continues today, and rather than understanding conflict by those who seek power, now a mockery will incite a war that cannot be won.

    “Terrorism” to most is “patriotism” to others. The Western world has seen a share of horrific incidents, but there more going on in in the Middle East to have sparked this conflict to begin with. Mockery of this magnitude, as projected by what may come on May 20, will be a shock to those who think a playful jab like this is harmless.

    I'd prefer not to live in a world where situations like this, propagated by the ignorant, incite a war agains the lot of us. There are far too many nuclear weapons in the grey market for me to feel safe in this time.

    Would you go up to the craziest person you know and do the one thing that you knew would make him snap? It seems natural selection might be making a comeback.

  • EFG

    As opposed to the millions killed just during the Iraq and Afghan war alone?

  • K!WEQQ

    G00d idea, but disgusting and not funny drawings..

  • Faith09

    “”I am personally afraid of Muslims because the peaceful folks of that religion do not often come forward to differentiate themselves from any radical elements! I mean, if I do not hear from moderate Muslims then how am I supposed to KNOW that they, too, are not harboring ill intent toward non-Muslims?! Please if you are a non-radical Muslim tell people about yourselves. Write to newspapers. Have community round tables. When Americans don’t know what you really think or feel, we might stay mired in stereotypes. Offer us knowledge!”"

    Seriously?? did u live under a rock? Islam is the fastest growing religion and you mean to tell me you have not met the “non-extremists”. Their are knowledgable Americans out there, and there are people like Molly Norris. Ignorant Illeterate people who do nothing but support the violence and ignorance. Laughter might be a prayer for you, but to us it's valuable but not a prayer. You're in for something…and stop trying to play off like you mean no harm. Look around you. People like you surprise me…Ignorant americans..you bring it on to ur self. You should be afraid of extremists who are using the name “islam” and jihaddists to reach their goal. They are using the religion. You write cartoons, get yourself in a library and read some books. This cud happen in Christianity or any other religion. They're extremists…it don't matter what religion they are. like I said, read a book.

    Conservative? What are u waiting for—a muslim person to come talk to you about who they are and their purity? and that ther not out to get you? GRow up..ur talking about change, go grow your knowledge. Stop waiting to be FED>

  • Anonymous

    Its curious that in Islam, iconography of the prophet Muhammad is verboten. One can argue that all Muslims, regardless of skin color are considered equals. But the same can not be said for gender equality.

  • Anonymous

    Its curious that in Islam, iconography of the prophet Muhammad is verboten. One can argue that all Muslims, regardless of skin color are considered equals. But the same can not be said for gender equality.

  • letsassume

    i wonder if this guys can say anything about the HOLOCAUST
    anyway they have the right to say what they want , but they have to face the consequences …

  • http://www.facebook.com/MattTC Matthew Clark

    I feel this is a good idea.

  • Pearl

    “”I am personally afraid of Muslims because the peaceful folks of that religion do not often come forward to differentiate themselves from any radical elements! I mean, if I do not hear from moderate Muslims then how am I supposed to KNOW that they, too, are not harboring ill intent toward non-Muslims?!

    This is because the mainstream media is made up of jews and christian mainly who lets face it, doesn't exactly want to show mulsims in a good way. You do not hear of it because they don't want to cover it. They deem it not worthy but it doesn't mean moderate aren't there. It's very ignorant of you to assume that just because you don't see it in the fox news and all that rubbish, that there aren't moderate mulsims.

  • kareemtolba

    I just want to share something with all of you here and I wish you can reflect on it even just for a few minutes…
    What good to any single human being is drawing the Prophet of a faith that is followed by approximately 1.8 billion of the world population, knowing that this offends them? Really try to answer this question to yourselves, and be honest and real about it, don't go and reply to yourselves by phrases like “freedom of speech” or wise guy phrases like “why not?”
    And if you will use these phrases, how would you like it if someone regardless of their faith now, calls for:
    1. 21st of May the day we draw Adolf Hitler
    2. 22nd of May the day we draw the soles of the children who died in the Hiroshima Bombing
    3. 23rd of May the day we draw funny cartoons of the 9/11 attack
    Not that there is any resemblance between the Prophet Mohamed and those three other examples, but in principle; it’s how something that will not add to anyone but at the same time offend so many people… is just too pointless to do.
    And for those of you who read, you will know that Muslims (the people who follow the faith of Islam just like the Prophet Mohamed) would never even think for a second of a comeback like… okay then lets draw Jesus in very bad ways, or let’s make fun of Moses in some drawing or call Prophet Noah “Sea Man” (like south park is doing… guys really?… making fun of the entities that stand for the faith of millions of people around the world? don't you think you will ever meet GOD at some point? And like out of all the funny things you would have done in the world, is making fun of GOD and his Prophets is what was so cool?)
    If you pick up The Holly Quran anywhere in the world, you will find a whole chapter called Mary & a whole chapter called Noah. And in the Mary chapter you will find how much Virgin Mary & Jesus are respected and glorified.
    One also interesting thing guys… the west calls our region third world countries and uncivilized regions. I ask you this; get me one book… close to far that describes such an act from a group people doing what you are doing now as a civilized act.
    And let’s all remember that in every society in the world… Sports Fans, Races, Religions, Cults there are those who are extra passionate people who misunderstand what it means to be passionate about what you believe in and start fires and fights with each other. But that never meant that all who love Soccer are ugly disgusting people or all who are Jewish are a bunch of killers who kill innocent Palestinian kids every day.
    Finally I would quote two verses from The Holly Quran, read them as if you are reading any ordinary book, but remember we believe that these are the words of GOD and agin reflect.
    1. Surat Al-Mā'idah (The Table Spread), Verse 32
    Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. (http://quran.com/5/32)
    Explanation (Tafsir al-Jalalayn)
    Because of that, which Cain did, We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever slays a soul for other than a soul, slain, or for, other than, corruption, committed, in the land, in the way of unbelief, fornication or waylaying and the like, it shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether; and whoever saves the life of one, by refraining from slaying, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind — Ibn ‘Abbās said [that the above is meant] in the sense of violating and protecting its [a soul’s] sanctity [respectively]. Our messengers have already come to them, that is, to the Children of Israel, with clear proofs, miracles, but after that many of them still commit excesses in the land, overstepping the bounds through disbelief, killing and the like.
    2. Surat Al-Baqarah (The Cow), Verse 285
    The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so have] the believers. All of them have believed in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers, [saying], “We make no distinction between any of His messengers.” And they say, “We hear and we obey. [We seek] Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the [final] destination.” (http://quran.com/2/285)

    Explanation (Tafsir al-Jalalayn)
    The Messenger, Muhammad (s) believes in, affirms the truth of, what was revealed to him from his Lord, namely, the Qur’ān, and the believers (wa’l-mu’minūna is a supplement to al-rasūlu, ‘the Messenger’); each one (the tanwīn of kullun stands in place of the second noun in an annexation [sc. kullu wāhidin]) believes in God and His angels, and in His Books, all of them and each of them, and His messengers, and they say, ‘we make no distinction between any of His messengers’, believing in some and disbelieving in others, in the manner of the Jews and the Christians. And they say, ‘We hear, what we have been enjoined to hear and accept, and obey; we ask you: Your forgiveness, our Lord; to You is the homecoming’, that is, the return at the Resurrection. When the previous verse was revealed, the believers complained of evil whisperings and it grieved them that they should be taken to account according to [the principle expressed in] it, and so the following was revealed:

  • kareemtolba

    I just want to share something with all of you here and I wish you can reflect on it even just for a few minutes…
    What good to any single human being is drawing the Prophet of a faith that is followed by approximately 1.8 billion of the world population, knowing that this offends them? Really try to answer this question to yourselves, and be honest and real about it, don't go and reply to yourselves by phrases like “freedom of speech” or wise guy phrases like “why not?”
    And if you will use these phrases, how would you like it if someone regardless of their faith now, calls for:
    1. 21st of May the day we draw Adolf Hitler
    2. 22nd of May the day we draw the soles of the children who died in the Hiroshima Bombing
    3. 23rd of May the day we draw funny cartoons of the 9/11 attack
    Not that there is any resemblance between the Prophet Mohamed and those three other examples, but in principle; it’s how something that will not add to anyone but at the same time offend so many people… is just too pointless to do.
    And for those of you who read, you will know that Muslims (the people who follow the faith of Islam just like the Prophet Mohamed) would never even think for a second of a comeback like… okay then lets draw Jesus in very bad ways, or let’s make fun of Moses in some drawing or call Prophet Noah “Sea Man” (like south park is doing… guys really?… making fun of the entities that stand for the faith of millions of people around the world? don't you think you will ever meet GOD at some point? And like out of all the funny things you would have done in the world, is making fun of GOD and his Prophets is what was so cool?)
    If you pick up The Holly Quran anywhere in the world, you will find a whole chapter called Mary & a whole chapter called Noah. And in the Mary chapter you will find how much Virgin Mary & Jesus are respected and glorified.
    One also interesting thing guys… the west calls our region third world countries and uncivilized regions. I ask you this; get me one book… close to far that describes such an act from a group people doing what you are doing now as a civilized act.
    And let’s all remember that in every society in the world… Sports Fans, Races, Religions, Cults there are those who are extra passionate people who misunderstand what it means to be passionate about what you believe in and start fires and fights with each other. But that never meant that all who love Soccer are ugly disgusting people or all who are Jewish are a bunch of killers who kill innocent Palestinian kids every day.
    Finally I would quote two verses from The Holly Quran, read them as if you are reading any ordinary book, but remember we believe that these are the words of GOD and agin reflect.
    1. Surat Al-Mā'idah (The Table Spread), Verse 32
    Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. (http://quran.com/5/32)
    Explanation (Tafsir al-Jalalayn)
    Because of that, which Cain did, We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever slays a soul for other than a soul, slain, or for, other than, corruption, committed, in the land, in the way of unbelief, fornication or waylaying and the like, it shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether; and whoever saves the life of one, by refraining from slaying, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind — Ibn ‘Abbās said [that the above is meant] in the sense of violating and protecting its [a soul’s] sanctity [respectively]. Our messengers have already come to them, that is, to the Children of Israel, with clear proofs, miracles, but after that many of them still commit excesses in the land, overstepping the bounds through disbelief, killing and the like.
    2. Surat Al-Baqarah (The Cow), Verse 285
    The Messenger has believed in what was revealed to him from his Lord, and [so have] the believers. All of them have believed in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers, [saying], “We make no distinction between any of His messengers.” And they say, “We hear and we obey. [We seek] Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the [final] destination.” (http://quran.com/2/285)

    Explanation (Tafsir al-Jalalayn)
    The Messenger, Muhammad (s) believes in, affirms the truth of, what was revealed to him from his Lord, namely, the Qur’ān, and the believers (wa’l-mu’minūna is a supplement to al-rasūlu, ‘the Messenger’); each one (the tanwīn of kullun stands in place of the second noun in an annexation [sc. kullu wāhidin]) believes in God and His angels, and in His Books, all of them and each of them, and His messengers, and they say, ‘we make no distinction between any of His messengers’, believing in some and disbelieving in others, in the manner of the Jews and the Christians. And they say, ‘We hear, what we have been enjoined to hear and accept, and obey; we ask you: Your forgiveness, our Lord; to You is the homecoming’, that is, the return at the Resurrection. When the previous verse was revealed, the believers complained of evil whisperings and it grieved them that they should be taken to account according to [the principle expressed in] it, and so the following was revealed:

  • http://skepticalist.com/2010/04/27/draw-mohammed-day/ Seattle cartoonist: May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ « The Skepticalist

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  • Mo

    It's funny how we as “Americans” can depict Jesus Christ in movies, pictures, cartoons and even have statues of him. No doubt he performed great miracles and helped spread the word of God, but what did the Prophet do? In Islam, never did they depict the Prophet in any cartoon, movie, TV show or anything like that. Muslims and non-Muslims have always respected that aspect of the religion, so why is this turning out to be bigger than it is? What the Muslim extremist group did was nothing but cowardly. Sending death threats is not what Islam preaches and neither does it preach any violent acts. Yes, everyone does have the freedom of speech, freedom of press and the right to vote, but does that mean taking advantage of all the privileges that we are offered here? Those who have not read the Quran will agree with the first person that says Islam is a violent religion because of what the media spreads around. All I suggest is check the facts, learn and step above ignorance.

  • NewMuslim

    The Bible was only able to be read by clerics because the population couldn't read. Mohammed recited the Bible in a way that could be memorized by the population so that they could have the word of God for themselves. This took the power away from the clergy. Yes, he recited the Bible! That was the point! The clergy didn't have a copyright on the world of God! It was for the people and only Mohammed gave it to the people.

    Muslims greatly respect other religions. How could they not respect Christianity for loving Jesus who is loved by all Muslims? Islam goes back to Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah, etc, so the history in the Bible belongs to Islam, too. It's the same history.

  • NewMuslim

    The operative word is “we”. “They” (Muslims) never make fun of any religion.

  • A-mused

    Link article to hundreds of people dying as a result of the publication of Danish Cartoons.

  • A-mused

    Link article to hundreds of people dying as a result of the publication of Danish Cartoons.

  • A-mused
  • anon

    Muslim and arabic people in the US are basically the punching bags of this decade.

    They don't have a voice to speak up for themselves; anything positive they say has a snowball's chance in hell of being broadcast; all it takes is one ass wipe out there to have his vitriol replayed like the end all and be all of the community.

    It's seems hopeless and most have taken the approach of heads down and just try to block it all out. And that's not good enough either cuz then everyone says “they don't do anything to stop this.”

    And now the next thing dialed up for this community is being force fed straight up racism? For what? To prove a point to some ass hats in a ditch across the world who can't hear you? Oh wait, or is it that ONE, I mean ONE ***** in Brooklyn cursing out South Park?

    Give me a ***** break.

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  • Anonymous

    Did you even see the episodes in question? The characters were discussing how they could do what was needed to keep their town from being blown up, without having to have their town blown up. See, Celebrities were demanding Mohammed be delivered to them so they could steal his goo. The characters were concerned, because if they got Mohammed, then they would be attacked by ridiculous Muslims and be blown up anyways. They attempted to keep him from being seen, i.e. CATER TO THE BOMBERS BECAUSE OF THE FEAR, first by keeping him in a cube van and then by putting him in a full-body costume.

    The fact that this, Mohammed in the back of a truck or in an entirely body-covering disguise, was enough to elicit DEATH THREATS (they are nothing else, you don’t just casually mention that somebody will be horribly murdered!) from these extremists, shows just how effective the War on Terror has really been.

    Seriously. Mohammed was NEVER SHOWN ON THE SCREEN. But about five years ago, it was perfectly OK for him to be seen and heard and have an active part in the show! (see episode Super Best Friends). How this can be considered anything but active First Amendment Right denial on the part of the network, and terrorist activity on the part of the Muslim group in NY, is beyond me. Seems like everybody in a position to do anything about this is still either scared shitless from the Muslim bombers (because all Muslims are bombers nowadays, not like they’ve done anything to distance themselves from that label) or just considers SouthPark to be ‘some worthless cartoon’.

    And finally, it is NEVER a wise business decision to prove to millions of religious nuts that you are perfectly controlled by threats of terrorism! Isn’t that what the last TEN YEARS OF WAR have been about, hmm?

  • Anonymous

    Just so you know…

    That was ONE company.

    They were almost encoded references to specific passages in the Bible – a series of letters and numbers that could easily be mistaken for a serial number or equipment markings.

    And it was done without military permission, sanction, or request. Meaning you’re generalizing a country of 300 MILLION PEOPLE as gun-nut, bible-thumpin’ hill folk.

  • Anonymous

    Jesus was an extraterrestrial.

    Prove me wrong, and I’ll go get baptized again.

  • Tylerwithtree

    Religion should NEVER be a no-go zone. That it was for centuries is the reason it stagnated and failed to evolve – now becoming a hinderance to society. Much of man's morality has surpassed traditional religion in respect to rights, freedoms, stewardship of the planet, etc.
    When viewed with any irrational behavior, I feel like it's my duty to confront it, and I will. I have a strip in two of Canada's big gay papers, and'll be posting my own religious icon cartoon on may 20th, @ http://www.brotherhoodworld.com, if you want to come see it…or blow it up.

  • Carrie

    Really Molly? I saw your cartoon and your “Draw Mohamed Day” followed by a bunch of silly pictures like coffee cups and cereal is worth a smirk considering no one knows what “God” looks like and there are a nuts who think themselves “God”.
    But to joke that everyone draw Mohamed? Do you really think it is appropriate to suggest to a bunch of Muslim hating Americans to blaspheme Mohamed? Can we spit on the bible while we are at it? And maybe toss around a few swastikas?
    I am not a religious person but this is bullshit. Free speech my ass.
    And why is it the job of the peaceful Muslim to educate you? Put down your fucking colored pencil and educate yourself! You stay mired in your stereotype but don’t accuse me of doing so.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AndrewYeoman0907 Andrew Yeoman

    this is a major provocation against muslims. lets see if they stand up to doing anything about it.

  • captainrespect

    we should have a national n*gger day. all the people who arent black go into a black neighborhood and shout 'n*gger' as loud as you can, for as long as you can. its not about pissing ppl off, its about protesting fundamentalist terrorists who kill non blacks for saying that word. they surely cant kill us all! I AM BEING SARCASTIC.. RESPECT PEOPLE'S RELIGION PLEASE, HOW OLD ARE YOU?!

  • http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com OlderMusicGeek

    well, ask jennifer mccreight what happens when you make a flippant remark about fundamentalist islam.

  • http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com OlderMusicGeek

    well, ask jennifer mccreight what happens when you make a flippant remark about fundamentalist islam.

  • http://everyonedrawmohammed.blogspot.com/ A.W.

    Hey guys, if you are interested, i created my own Everyone Draw Mohammed site. Just click on my name to follow, for cut and paste this link.

    http://everyonedrawmohammed.blogspot.com/

    Please send your drawings there if you are inclined to do so.

  • http://www.unexplainedmysteries.com God of all gods

    The word mohammed is no different of a written image. It depicts the same. Funny, majority, bears the image in the form of a name. All mohammad/mohammed name bearers should worry about themselves for idolizing.

  • ameenJ

    I don't get it guys, why do you have to insult the belief of someone in order for you to laugh. Neither this nor making fun of Jesus is suitable and moral. Those people came to enlighten our life and give it a meaning, so what purpose does it serve to mock them??

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  • LadyHawke

    Others do make images. That’s a reason to change the channel, to not patronize the sponsers, to organize a boycott in your community. South Park offends many. It’s ok to be offended. It’s not ok to issue a death threat.

  • LadyHawke

    Others do make images. That’s a reason to change the channel, to not patronize the sponsers, to organize a boycott in your community. South Park offends many. It’s ok to be offended. It’s not ok to issue a death threat.

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  • Ben Rice

    It is probably not my place to judge anybody's actions: we all live in a different corner of the planet and some of us have a world view based upon what we see and the lens in which we see it is tainted by our surroundings. I am a liberal and open-minded Englishman living in a morally defunct and culturally bereft country in The Gulf, working and trying to educate a class of 6-7-year old children of the world outside. The majority of people in the Muslim faith are pretty much the same as you and me, as are their children, and they are primarily a peaceful people. But they would be offended at any portrayal of Mohammed, regardless of whether they are hardliners or not. If the joke were on themselves as humans, you would be surprised how funny they would find it, though – and this is coming from the UK where attacking figures of religion seems to be reserved solely for the Christian Church – you wouldn't see anybody in Qatar, Iran, or Saudia Arabia even considering an attack on Jesus, as they would feel it was blasphemous.

    You may also find that the right-wing 'double' Muslims – as Richard Pryor used to call them, all have one thing in common: poverty and a lack of education. This is where fundamentalism stems from, not an inherent jealousy of the West and its ideals.

    Baiting the aggressive, not only makes you look belligerent but actually causes the divide to widen, letting only those peaceful normal citizens on both sides – those without power and money – fall into the hole you're helping to create.

    But I am also of the opinion that art and freedom are what gives us identity in the world: it's just how we choose to use it that defines us.

  • kennyD

    several personages, most questionable but all look the same, all step into the spotlight and say….
    i am he who has been called moochaaachhhmaed! no I am Moochaaachhhmaed!.. no.. I am the true moochaaachhhmaed ! you are all liers and molesters, I and the only moochaaachhhmaed ! My ChiChipow says that I am this moochaaachhhmaed !.. Neho Neho.. Eyh is ehh am this moochaaachhhmaed feller, and so are muh 6 couzins n sisters (snicker).. DIE you Infedelitys! You cannot be as I AM moochaaachhhmaed!!.. (Ali shuffles in doing a ropeadope) SMACK POW BAM BAM SLAM UPPERCUT.. I AM HIM I AM THE GREATEST ! DING DING! (then don king runs up and offers a boxing contract) common southperk why didnt you think of this first?!

  • Allah is a pig and Mohammed blows him

    Lost Verses Of the Holy Quran Surah: 115 (The Pig)
    Surah: 115 (The Pig)
    Total Verses: 5
    115: 1: Bismillah:The hurried flight of the cowardly Muslims led them to a fertile oasis, where they were at last safe from their many enemies in Mecca.
    : : Pausing, each thanked Allah the moon-god for their good fortune.
    : : Assembling at a long table, they enjoyed rare delicacies brought by malodorous Hijab wearing Harlots.
    During the feast Mohammed sternly forbade his disciples to partake of pig flesh, while fondling the youthful breasts of a Nubian girl named Sheba.
    : : Obeying the Prophet, the pilgrims partook of the succulent flesh of jackals and vultures, washing their food down with strong wine.
    : : I never dreamed Id have to eat the loins of a jackal, let alone the bitter entrails of a cursed vulture, observed a hungry pilgrim named Ahmed to a fellow Muslim named Uthman-Ibn-Affan, choking on the unpalatable morsels.
    115 : 2: Neither did I, but the Holy Prophet has ordered it, grumbled another starving follower named Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib almost vomiting as he consumed greasy vulture flesh.
    : : A rancid pork chop would taste a hell of a lot better than this crap does, retorted Ahmed.
    : : Its an acquired taste brother, youll get used to it, spoke up another named UmarIbn-Al khattab, smiling with a mouthful of rotten teeth. I dont think so, replied Ahmed, forcing down a burned jackal testicle.
    An uncaring Mohammed, famished, greedily wolfed down roast jackal in enjoyment, quaffing from an earthenware wine carafe on occasion, while choosing which of the girls that would soon endure his favors.
    The meal finished in the late afternoon, a drunken, lustful Mohammed initiated a sex orgy with the girls, the debauched Holy Prophet, Allah speaking through him, declaring all earlier betrothals or marriages of the women he knew null and void.
    115:3: The Muslims celebrated their good fortune, again thanking Allah for the bounty they had been blessed to receive.
    Later, as Mohammed sat half-naked under a palm tree, masturbating to the thought of molesting little girls, Ahmed chanced by and remarked, “Oh great prophet, why does Allah say that we cannot dine on delicious pig flesh?”
    “Why?” asked Mohammed blithely, closing his filthy, tattered, moth-eaten robe, “Because Allah’s younger brother is a pig, and Allah doesn’t want us killing and eating his holy kinfolk.”
    “Allah is a pig?” asked an incredulous Ahmed, staring at Mohammed.
    “Of course,” replied the deranged Prophet Mohammed, hallucinating thanks to ingesting strong hashish minutes earlier.
    115:4: “That’s ridiculous, why the hell do we worship pigs?” asked Ahmed sharply, thinking his flight from Mecca may have been the result of heeding the words of a false prophet, possessed by an impulsive desert demon who delighted in seeing them consume the flesh of vermin.
    : : “Because they’re better than us Muslims,” answered a smiling Mohammed, now fantasizing about raping little boys, “Look at me, I’m little more than a lecherous child molester, thief and murderer!”
    “True, but pigs can not talk!” exclaimed a sardonic Ahmed, digging a heel into the sand.
    : : “Allah can, he speaks to me in my dreams,” retorted the wildly hallucinating Mohammed, barely able to focus on Ahmed, seeing him in double vision.
    : : “You’re a madman Mohammed,” declared a disgusted Ahmed, “I’m heading back to join the infidels in Mecca!”
    : : “Who cares?” retorted Mohammed, slurring his words and breaking into riotous laughter.
    115:5: Prophet Mohammed, opening his robe and again reaching for his flaccid cock, was too occupied with masturbating his building erection to reply further, while Ahmed, shaking his head in disbelief, disappeared behind a sand dune.
    “What a stupid, perverted, licentious bastard,” spat Ahmed, walking off, adding, “Mohammed is crazier than a shithouse rat!”

  • Muhammad Umair

    But there should be respect of muslims thought as this is emotional issue.
    As u like to get respect in your feelings

  • http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/index.aspx?lang=en Majd El-Jayousi

    Knowledge about the Prophet Muhammad and his behavior and advice to mankind can be found here: http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/index.aspx?lang=en

  • Jason

    Flag

  • nadz10

    “I am personally afraid of Muslims because the peaceful folks of that religion do not often come forward to differentiate themselves”
    I actually laughed at this statement, so now people of religions that you don't know of, should stand and differentiate them selves to you!! so Muslims must stand one by one and tell you that they harbour no ill will…guilty until proven innocent?! is that the freedom you are so strongly clinging to. If you want learn about a culture or people go search and acquire knowledge your self people are not going to come you! news flash!!
    This anti anti movement is as bad as the anti movement its self, your just making what already bad into something bigger.
    Just draw whatever you want, if comedy central censored they probably did it for profit, as they would lose customers, it has nothing to do with any sense value or fear for that matter…but thats their decision. At the end of the day drawing cartoons of Muhammad is still legal, and murder and acts of violence are not.

  • KennyD

    sooo.. where did my post go.. it was here.. gone.. not flagged, just gone.. hmmm.. damn gremlins.

  • KennyD

    So.. with 200 million ppl who call themselves Mohammed or however you want to spell it.. they give a face to the name. why are they still alive? sooo fickel those terrorists..

  • KennyD

    several personages, most questionable but all dressed the same, all step into the spotlight and say….
    i am he who has been called moochaaachhhmaed!
    no I am Moochaaachhhmaed!..
    no.. I am the true moochaaachhhmaed !
    you are all liers and molesters, I and the only moochaaachhhmaed !
    My ChiChipow says that I am this moochaaachhhmaed !..
    Neho Neho.. Eyh is ehh am this moochaaachhhmaed feller, and so are muh 6 couzins n sisters (snicker)..
    DIE you Infedelitys! You cannot be as I AM moochaaachhhmaed!!..
    (Ali leapes in the ring) SMACK POW BAM BAM SLAM UPPERCUT..
    I AM HIM I AM THE GREATEST ! DING DING!
    and anyone who has met Muhammad Ali recently, still a powerfully built man but has a bucket of mixed veggies upstairs.. such a downer.. but is one helluva drawer! at least he has a focus.

  • Greg

    You are a hero. I hope and wish that more people around the world would stand up to the the radicals who preach hate and death.

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  • blake_huelsman

    cool

  • Guest

    “radicals who preach hate and death” how about the “Radicals who promotes hate and sasses more than 1.5 billion muslims through their shows “? does that promotes peace and understanding? is that your way of showing people around the world how americans think of free speech?

  • guest

    People please, know Islam before posting or suggesting dumb events based on you ignorant knowledge

    http://www.islamhouse.com/

  • http://thesitrep.com Greg
  • maquineta

    Yo no soy marinero,

    Yo no soy marinero,

    Soy un delfin,

    Soy un delfin,soy un delfin.

  • some1whothoughtitwasfunny

    Wow, Firstly, I find all organized religions ridiculous, especially the one(s) that are so fearful and so afraid of anyone challenging the moral of their violent actions due to iconic representation, that they resort to cowardly threats over the internet. And for Christs' (Mohammad if you're Nasty) sake, lets all agree that the post(s) on the website for Trey and Matt clearly, were empty cowardly threats hidden behind Ammend #1.Why are these people who have the choice to live anywhere choosing to live here in the US, go the f_ck home, where all 2 of your TV stations are gov't run and controlled. You'll never see South Park there, you can live in your bubble with all of your friends who cant think for themselves either…

  • http://grategodalmighty.blogspot.com grategodalmighty

    Cartoon satirising Molly Norris-

    http://grategodalmighty.blogspot.com/2010/05/bl…

    Enjoy

  • ameenJ

    Sorry for what you've seen about Islam through the 9/11 actions, and i as a Muslim regret those actions. However, these actions were a result of the american and western policy of backing Israel and not respecting 1.5 billion people. Well some decided to take the wrong road to express their refuse to this policy.

  • ameenJ

    shame on you!!!!!!!!!!

    Wouldn't you feel insulted if i drew a similar thing about jesus which i would never do???
    It is such actions that helps what you call terrorists to grow, so don't help them become stronger.

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  • stOneskull

    this is ridiculous.. and fuels anger. mocking a people's religion on such a huge scale is not good behavior. i question that the motive for this exercise is because of and for the concept of freedom of speech. there are other ways to express yourself. it's simple.. muslims really believe in god and mohammed is a prophet of god to them. why not respect that? why would you want to upset people for? that's devilish behavior.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/E-Cig-Guy/100000376956199 E-Cig Guy

    you are so right, but sadly aren’t most debates these days, even the ones in our own Congress largely driven by religious fanaticism of some sort or another? I seem to remember in recent elections the topics of gay marriage coming up quite often and yet for the life of me I can not fathom 1- what that has to do with government and 2- what business government has in marriage which is a religious ceremony anyway.

    We also temper ourselves and others in all aspects of our lives now based on fanaticism. From our fears to post some views on the net for fear of retribution from our employers or the government to our fears of what our friends might say, we temper ourselves in our opinions all the time.

    I would argue however, perhaps as Jesus might, that escalating the situation, insulting the views of others and ridiculing their religious icons simply for the sake of proving we have the right to do so is counter productive. It causes more conflict, more hatred, more distrust.

    While I certainly agree freedom of speech is important to our society, I truly do not find the speech of organizations who profit from belittling others as comedy central and the producers of South Park are to be quite as worthy of protection and outrage as I would the views of politics or religion in which very often in history blood has been shed over.

    While the whole argument disgusts me, i do not find the fanaticism of the muslim organization protesting and threatening over the depictions of their leaders any different or any worse that any other groups who have also been known to make similar threats over crosses in urine and gay marriage,

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  • Charles Martel

    Actually David, you’re wrong yet again. The moslems didn’t invade the Holy land? Really? So, how close is Mecca to Jerusalem on your map then? Cause, Islam did not come from Jerusalem after all and any bedouins or Arabs who lived there were NOT muslim, they were pagan. They were pagan until they were converted by the sword of Islam. Yes, the Romans did occupy the land of Judea which, funny enough, remained a Roman Province up until Arab conquest when at that time it was part of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. A Christian dominion. When the Romans ruled Judea, they were quite tolerant of the main religion of the land and even re-named the province to reflect the name of the inhabitants of the place and their religion. Now I wonder what religion could that be? Hmmm?

    They expelled the Jews from the land before Christianity due to many attempts at revolt but some Jews did come back. You mention Zoroastrianism? Ummm, you might want to look a couple hundred miles to the east for that religion as it was Persian. Funny that, the Muslims crushed that country and religion too! Just as they tried to do to Hinduism in India as well.

    You could not be more wrong about the history of the ancient near and middle east if you tried son. The sad part is that this information is freely available from reputable sources all over the internet. All you have toi do is stop being intellectualy lazy and try.

  • David R Velasquez

    Actually YOU are the one being a pompous intellectually lazy or dishonest windbag.

    We were talking about the Middle East.
    A name that covers vast areas of Asia (parts of the silk road) North Africa and includes Persia.
    The history of Jerusalem and the ‘Holy Land’ is a special case in itself.
    Technically under roman rule and therefore a ‘christian occupied’ land. The soldiers of course being christian and pagan… but among the native inhabitants the christians were a minority…the rest being jews and arabs…and btw, the assyrians and the babylonians, i.e., persians did conquer Jerusalem atleast 500bce which raises the likelihood that they brought zoroastrianism or mazdaism with them. And you’re right…the arabs were pagans until the spread of islam. And that the moslems DID invade the “holy land” to expel christians (a minority or sect of judaism) and jews

    But in your zeal to find fault with my argument you failed to recognize that I wasn’t saying that the arabs there in Jerusalem were specifically zoroastrianns (of which I’m well aware are persian) Nor was I speaking specifically about Jersusalem…but about the Middle east in general which the claim was made that it was a ‘christian land’ …but we’re splitting heirs here.
    My point, …christian arabs have always been a minority. Other sects existed that either were swallowed up by Muhammedism or indeed later conquered. But that it was still something more native or organic in developement than the existence of a ‘christian empire’ in those lands. The idea of returning the Middle East to christianity is an insult to the vast majority there. The christians who exist there are a very small minority… always was and always will be.

    Using the name of a merovingian king doesn’t make you an authority… nor does it invalidate my argument.

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  • andras ungar

    Respect requires respect. I wish Ms. Norris the very best.
    (I wish I could draw)

  • ZUBI

    MAY the blessings of GOD on u:
    my name is zubi n i m a muslim(thanx to ALLAH).
    I M VERY SURPRISED TO KNW MOLLY THAT HW CN AN EDUCATED LADY LIKE U MAKE SUCH A THTING?I MEAN TO SAY,THAT V MUSLIMS DO NOT CRITICIZE ON CHRISTIANITY AND V DO RESPECT HOLY JESUS AS WELL.THEN Y R U PEOPLE PLAYING WITH THE EMOTIONS OF OURS?
    ISLAM AND EVERY RELEGION OF THE WORLD TEACHES TO RESPECT ALL THE RELIGIONS…AND V DO,BUT Y DO U PEOPLE WANT TO REACT MUSLIMS VIOLENTLY?
    AGAIN MY HUMBLE REQUET TO ALL OF THOSE WHO THINK THE THIS CARTOOISM IS RIGHT THAT PLZ DO NOT DO THIS.HAVE U PPL 4GET THE CURSE OF GOD WHICH COMES EVERY YEAR TO U PPL IN FORM OF KATRINA RITA AND ALL THE RESTLESSNESS IN UR LIVES?PLZ FOR GOD SAKE OPEN UR EYES.
    THNK U.ZUBI SHEIKH.PAKISTAN.

  • sabhayani

    shame on you guys…..i protest against making cartoon sketch of Prophet Mohammed S.A.W.W…..

  • zakirali

    this is ridiculous that u just draw it for humor…u…fool

  • H.M..Nawaz

    Please stop it, its kind of work is a big terrorist against Muslim religion and their thoughts

  • Atif

    Everbody Draw Muhammad Day

    It is a very bad idea and this should be condemed and remove /stop immediately

  • mohaomar
  • anumakhter_4472

    u all r playing with our feelings about our religon n prophet actually u r real terrorist

  • Naushad Tauheed

    “I am personally afraid of Muslims because the peaceful folks of that religion do not often come forward to differentiate themselves from any radical elements”

    Why should ANYONE defend your offense and provocation? It's a matter of principle that the belligerents like could neither understand nor twist to your advantage.

  • f mercury

    mohammed sucks my penis.

  • arbabshahid

    How dare you to do so. we muslims dislike it too much. we protest it strictly and we order you to stop it otherwise we'll leave facebook.

  • Anonymous

    oh u Jew mother fucker i will fuck all of u

  • Anonymous

    Why?

  • Muhammed Ahmed Raza

    I don't know what ppl want with it,
    but
    this is the way you ppl are playing with Muslims as we are in loved with our MUHAMMAD,
    we Muslims love PEACE,
    We Muslims do respect you and your religion,
    Please please take a look on your behavior,
    Jazak Allah

  • saadch

    u mother fucker son og a pig son of a pregnant bitch remove dis

  • aqsa

    its bullshit, dese ppl are just giving lame xcuses for everything dy r dng. No body is suppose to bump into other ppls religion.

  • POI
  • Jim Bowlander

    Free Speech, never give it up. Never, Never Never.

    If you want to draw a picture of the Prophet Mohammed looking weird or doing something funny then go ahead and do it. Post it everywhere so everyone will understand that America does not and never will back down. If you have a problem with the drawing then don't look at it. I am sick of the crazy people claiming they can tell me what or how I should think.

  • MUSLIM

    If you want to insult the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him ) to reduce our interest him , i must tell you this is futile because we love Him with our hearts and Muhammad is alive forever in our hearts
    But know, insulting Muhammad, insulting Jesus and Moses.

    O Christian infidels
    Sword between us and you will judge
    Salahuddin Ayubi's children are still alive.
    Heads of all your body will separate.
    we will defend our LEADER
    Allah o Akbar

  • sara

    u r all dogs n pigs to draw such a loathsome event
    gfo 2 hell u all american n europian dogs

  • nixo

    this is sure the comment of a muslim !

  • nixo

    this is sure the comment of a muslim !

  • killem

    Americans get mad when people mess with our freedoms.

    Muslims get mad when someone draws a picture of muhamed.

    We both kill for our causes.

    So if muslims want to kill us for drawing muhamed, we're going to kill them for messing with our freedoms.

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  • Athiest

    I insult every Muslim because they are delusional fools; the same goes for Christians, Jews, Hindus, and all other believers in stupid ancient myths.

  • Atheist

    Your dead prophet (pork be upon him) licks my ass.

    Mohammed was nothing but a delusional murderous pedophile.

    Get over it, putz.

  • Atheist

    Sure they do. That’s why Muslims kill other people in the name of Islam – because they are so nice and peaceful.

    Blow it out your ass, liar.

  • Atheist

    What bullshit.

    Mohammed was an illiterate murderer, liar, rapist, pedophile, and all around despicable person. Charles Manson deserves more respect that Mohammed does, and Manson deserves none.

  • Atheist

    I don’t respect deluded people.

  • Athiest

    Fuck your beliefs – they suck, like all other beliefs in NON-EXISTENT “GODS” do.

  • ATHEIST

    Fuck your god, your prophet, and all those other mythical assholes like Moses and Jesus.

  • Atheist

    To hell with you, sandnigger raghead.

  • Atheist

    Go ahead, leave – who gives a fuck?

  • Atheist

    Shove your feelings up your ass, you superstitious raghead.

  • Atheist

    No I wouldn't be insulted at all, as Jesus is a dead clown who died nearly 2000 years ago. Same goes for your dead pedophile Mohammed.

  • ameenJ

    Well when you live in a materialistic world, this is what you turn into. An idiot with no morals who seeks money and own benefit. It needs a chicken's brain to figure out that there is a god, but sadly yours is smaller than a chicken's ;)
    If i tell you that a table exists by itself and no one has made it, you would call me insane. Well how could this whole world which has a specific order exist by coincidence.
    Anyways, people like you would never think of this, because you prefer to live this life the easy way satisfying your needs and claim that this is the goal of life, right.

  • Mike Jones

    The internet allows us to see the results of acid being thrown on women's faces and women being buried to their chest and being stoned to death by Islamic believing men. It's time to call a spade a spade: Islamic faith allows for sadism, murder and torture as moral actions by it's believers.

    Where do faith-based extremists and terrorists come from? Are faith-based extremists born that way? No, they are indoctrinated by Islamic adults. People are born without faith, then convert–the beginning of faith. The faith eventually grows and some grow into fundamentalists and others become extremists and/or terrorists.

    Shame on the non-extremists Islamic followers who are blind to the fact that all faith-based extremists come from the pool of the non-extremist faithful and for not demanding that these horrific things stop. Shame on believers of other faiths who are afraid to criticize the Islamic religion as well as their own religion.

    The solution? It is time that all Islamic believers throw away their faith. It's also time that all people grow up and stop believing in the mythology of all religions. It is time that all people become outraged at the useless belief in religion.

    What happens when kids realize Santa Claus is not real? Do they suggest a moderate belief in Santa Claus? I'll believe in the reindeer and the sleigh but not the man? No, they go on to lead productive adult lives. They can live without their belief.

  • A Muslim

    I am A Muslim, Kill Me And Call It Colleteral Damage, Imprison me and call it security measure, exile my people en messe and call it New Middle East, rob my resources, invade my land, Alter my Leadership & call it, Democracy.

    A Jew can grow his beard in order to practice his faith

    But when Muslim does the same, he is an extremist and terrorist!

    A nun can be covered from head to toe in order to devote herself to God, right?

    But, then, if a daughter of Muslim-Ummah does the same, why is she oppressed?

    When a western woman stays at home to look after her house and kids she is respected by the entire society because of sacrificing her life to her house

    But when a Muslim woman does so by