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This should be fun! How about taking a bit of time out of your busy schedule to indulge in some creative artistry? Combine elements of anti-extremism and in ya face humor in your museum quality piece, and put yourself to the choice of liberty or death!
Certain Muslims have decided to act out a particularly virulent form of hatred of those who do not believe as they do. They have sought to impose their beliefs on others with intimidation, death threats and murder. Their victims have included common people, journalists, authors, artists and... cartoonists.
Their intolerance is intolerable to a free society.
But a free society is only free so long as it fully exercises those freedoms and is not intimidated by the threats and actions of those who would suppress their exercise.
Personally, I am highly offended at any effort by religious extremists to impose their particular flavor on anyone who might not care to believe what they believe. I also defend their right to believe whatever they want to believe and to practice their religion to the fullest extent... until they infringe on the rights of others to also practice their faiths, or lack thereof, and to live a life unconstrained by the religious beliefs of others.
As a society with a Constitutional recognition of religious tolerance and as one of many nations that seek to live free of religious intolerance, we are at war with those who believe otherwise and then deign to extend a simple demand - convert or die at their hands.
You do not have to enlist in any army yet, you do not have to fight in any war yet, to make a personal stand for freedoms that others have most certainly died for.
The idea proposed by the following authors is simple passive resistance - do exactly what has been proscribed by the extremists and do so in solidarity as a bulwark against their extremism. I can accept that premise, but I also say keep it clean. There is no call to portray Mohammed, respected by millions, in any obscene or NSFW manner. A simple image, well executed or not, suffices.
Of course, it will take much more to repel the assaults these fanatics envision, but a simple demonstration, universally applied, will speak more loudly of solidarity than the endless waffling and hand wringing that we have seen too many engage in thus far.
Certain Muslims have decided to act out a particularly virulent form of hatred of those who do not believe as they do. They have sought to impose their beliefs on others with intimidation, death threats and murder. Their victims have included common people, journalists, authors, artists and... cartoonists.
Their intolerance is intolerable to a free society.
But a free society is only free so long as it fully exercises those freedoms and is not intimidated by the threats and actions of those who would suppress their exercise.
Personally, I am highly offended at any effort by religious extremists to impose their particular flavor on anyone who might not care to believe what they believe. I also defend their right to believe whatever they want to believe and to practice their religion to the fullest extent... until they infringe on the rights of others to also practice their faiths, or lack thereof, and to live a life unconstrained by the religious beliefs of others.
As a society with a Constitutional recognition of religious tolerance and as one of many nations that seek to live free of religious intolerance, we are at war with those who believe otherwise and then deign to extend a simple demand - convert or die at their hands.
You do not have to enlist in any army yet, you do not have to fight in any war yet, to make a personal stand for freedoms that others have most certainly died for.
The idea proposed by the following authors is simple passive resistance - do exactly what has been proscribed by the extremists and do so in solidarity as a bulwark against their extremism. I can accept that premise, but I also say keep it clean. There is no call to portray Mohammed, respected by millions, in any obscene or NSFW manner. A simple image, well executed or not, suffices.
Of course, it will take much more to repel the assaults these fanatics envision, but a simple demonstration, universally applied, will speak more loudly of solidarity than the endless waffling and hand wringing that we have seen too many engage in thus far.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
by Andrew Mellon
Dan Savage has declared May 20th “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” in defense of Matt Stone and Trey Parker. All freedom-loving Americans should get behind this. While initially I thought it was an ironic joke that South Park was censoring everything related to Mohammed in their last episode, obviously we have seen over the last few days that against the creators’ will, Comedy Central cowered in the face of a thinly veiled Muslim threat.
In fact, submission, the definition of Islam, is the apt word to describe Comedy Central’s cowardice.
The bottom line is that the First Amendment guarantees free speech including criticism of all peoples. We are an equal opportunity offense country. To censor ourselves to avoid upsetting a certain group (in a cartoon no less) is un-American.
It is especially egregious because it represents dhimmitude. We are sacrificing our law and our heritage to Sharia. The law of our land is the Constitution and beyond that the natural law granted to us by our divine creator.
Giving in to Islam at the cultural level is the first step towards going the way of Europe. Just as with leftism, the loss of our values begins not with the politicians but with the public. We must stop this madness now and stand in solidarity against those who wish to destroy our way of life and replace it with theirs. You can try to bully Matt Stone and Trey Parker but you cannot bully a million red-blooded, liberty-loving Matt Stones and Trey Parkers.
Let me end by evoking the words of a great many South Park characters: “If you don’t like America, then you can git out.”
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