The paintbrush/pen/pencil/crayon is mightier than the sword. Or hey, even needlepoint if you're up for it. The possibilities are endless. "Seattle cartoonist launches 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'," by Jamie Griswold for the Associated Press, April 23 (thanks to all who sent this in):
After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
Norris told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political correctness. "That's a cartoonist's job, to be non-PC."
Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made.
"As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent about feeling afraid," Norris said.
Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.
But drawings of one "religious figure" in particular will provoke death threats and accusations of hatred and racism.
On her website Norris explains this is not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to express themselves.
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Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is CANCELLED!
Molly
Hey,
Are you expecting that muslims should also insult/abuse your prophets and your relogion???????
Muslim should also start negative proagenda agianst your relogion????????
No, any muslim can,t insult any Prophet of god.
All the media of word is doing doing negative propagenda against Islam.
But islam is still fastest growing relogion of the world, Becouse islam is true religon .
Islam is a religon of peace and love, It does,nt allow to kill any innocent people.
You know how even a broken clock sometimes tells the righjt time. well I reckon Molly is a doprk: I wrote to her offering my support and she didnt reply, next shes telling Mark Syteyn noone offered their support, now the whole world offers its support and she says "cancelled"! DOH!
But, like the broken clock, she struck right on time when she first invented this event5. If she does nothing whatsoever of use in the rest of her life (on form, it seems likely) then at least this one action of hers has justified her existence for all time.
Accept it Molly.
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