"Draw Mohammed Day" is May 20

MikeSun5 said:
...and Jesus is riding a dinosaur....
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A sculpture of Mohammed made from bacon would be wonderful, except it might be a waste of perfectly good bacon.

I wonder if Joe Cartoon (joecartoon.atom.com) will do a bit on The Prophet: he pretty much slams any and everthing with equal irreverance.

"I was drawn against my will by Joe Cartoon" or some such by a gerbil Mohammed could be hilarious.

DR
 
Count me in... I'll be blogging about this in the days to come :)

Btw, thanks to Darth for my new avatar :D
 
Don't know if anyone watches "The Good Wife" (I don't, wife does) but I saw last night's ep by force of being in the room it was on doing something else and it included a legal thingie about this very type of situation (cartoon Mohammed, bomb, liability) but did one of those cutesy tricks to make it a Oklahoma City event instead of what real life normally would have been (as close to spoiler as I will get). I really hate when shows play these games (oh, that would be why I don't watch it, or many other shows of the general type - and with Christine Baranski in it, I oughtta love it!!).
 
Sabrina said:
I never knew it was wrong to depict Mohammed in pictures until I heard about the Dutch editorial cartoonist, and I still don't get the reasoning behind it either.
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As Wikipedia's writers put it: "The key concern is that the use of images can encourage idolatry, where the image becomes more important than what it represents."

Other possible reasons are described in their article on "Aniconism in Islam":
Wikipedia said:
It is equally important to stress that, wherever it surfaced, Islamic aniconism is partially due to the special historical relationship between images and Muslim identity. In the early days of Islam, for example, it was critical to distinguish the customs of the nascent Ummah from those of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and pagans. Therefore, emphasizing calligraphy[28] and abstract decoration over figurative painting and sculpture set the Qur'an apart from the Bible, the mosque from the church and — after a certain period of using Byzantine and Sassanid coins — the Muslim dinar from the Christian solidus.[29]
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So never mind that this rule is for Muslims. And never mind that a non-Muslim isn't going to start worshiping this image (which would be the wrong way to practice Islam, but they aren't trying to practice it anyway, hence the "non-Muslim" part). Never mind that this rule is not explicitly in the Quran, but rather in a few hadiths. And never mind that Islam is now quite distinct from its cousins.

And never mind that we don't even know what Muhammad really looked like.

There are several levels of ridiculous that Revolutionary Muslim had to climb through, and that was before they bottomed out at death threats.

If the article is correct, the issue only started to really be taken seriously in the Muslim world a few hundred years ago. Does anyone know if the Wahhabists are the ones who made this molehill into a mountain (so to speak)?

Wikipedia has also been down this road before and they didn't balk. There are quite a few pictures of Muhammad on their Wikicommons site. I especially like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maome.jpg
and this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohammed_MichelBaudier.jpg

The fundamentalists will have an even harder time getting run-of-the-mill Muslims outraged if we use neutral depictions of Muhammad from Islamic cultures themselves. :D
 
GreyArea said:
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The fundamentalists will have an even harder time getting run-of-the-mill Muslims outraged if we use neutral depictions of Muhammad from Islamic cultures themselves. :D
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Google also has a gazillion images.

Wow, someone needs to point this out to the mainstream news media and CC. Thanks for reminding us of something obvious that is being overlooked.
 
Here's another link to Islamic depictions of Mohammed in full (meaning with his face showing).

Boy, is it ever time to put this farce to rest. It's like I said in the beginning (in my WSJ blog reply), this is not about religion or respect for Islam, this is purely about a trumped up cause to motivate wingnuts for political gain.

WSJ Blog entry: Everybody Burn the Flag - If we don't act like inconsiderate jerks, the terrorists will have won!

My comment


I just added this comment to the blog:
As this discussion matures on multiple forums and blog sites, the hundreds of depictions of Mohammed throughout history both recent and ancient, by Muslims and others, some with a face, some with face hidden, have come to my and the Net community's attention.

This whole, "death to those who depict Mohammed", controversy is nothing more than garbage trumped up by a handful of extremists to motivate a few thousand wing nuts for political gain. This is not about refraining from offending Muslims who hold some concept of 'no images' dear.

If you think this controversy is about offending a religious group, then you have some hypocrisy to explain since there are thousands of religious groups who are likely offended by something, be it a story or cartoon in the WSJ, or something any one of us has likely done, said, drew, created at some time in our lives.

You simply cannot 'not ever offend a single religious group or individual'. This is about the extremists and free speech. It is about caving to threats or standing up for rights. It is not about being a considerate individual.

If you don't believe me, check out the US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. Guess what is depicted on one of the relief murals on the side of the building?
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Here's a picture of Muhammad and Glenn Beck.

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Yes. I have permission.
 
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