May 20: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

[Captn' Red]

 http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0424/seattle-cartoonist-promotes-everybody-draw-mohammed-day/

In the wake of episode 201 of South Park, which got heavily censored by Comedy Central there's been a lot of complaint, not from Muslims.
But from their own fans.

So, it's okay to show Buddha snorting coke and Jesus watching porn.
But they cant even say Mohammeds fucking name?


That the fear of the extremist Muslims have become this insane that even South Park bows down to em.
It pisses me the fuck off, since this tramples all over my religion: Freedom of Speech.


Now, anyone who wanna join me in the fight for freedom of speech against this scaremongering religion, on May 20, let's post some art.

[Flyvåpnet]

Red, I now officially hate the Comedy Central television channel.  Of course, it shouldn't come as a surprise that some media-of-communication corporation in the U.S. has less spine than a jellyfish.  I find it frustrating and maddening, but it shouldn't be surprising.  Adding to my frustration is the fact South Park's own producers are kowtowing to Comedy Central like there's no tomorrow.  Where the rubber meets the road, they're spineless too!



Were I a graphic artist, I'd have sketched any number of Mohammad images by now.  But I'm not, so I haven't; and I won't, because I can't.  If I could draw, though, I'd do my best to create a depiction of Mohammad which would insult all Muslims!  Why?  Because they can't seem to get off their fat, lazy butts and exorcise Islam of those hate-filled clerics who think non-Muslims are "infidels" worthy of murdering.



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the problem is there are only a few extremists, that bring the rest down, no matter how many try to get away.

[Captn' Red]

That don't change the fact that Islam is a religion that promotes extremism and hate, more than most other.


That the fear of Islam have spread so bad that even Comedy Central bows down to it, the hight of hypocrisy makes me feel ashamed to be a human being.

No matter what you feel about South Park, it's bigger than that. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of out modern society, and whenever someone chips away at that freedom, then I too am ready to take up arms and kill for my religion.

[Flyvåpnet]

Freedom of speech is, to politicians, a talking point - period.  They don't like it any more than do the corporate executives who pay them huge bribes to keep the citizenry in line, or the religionists who work to that same end by putting fear into the hearts of the populace.  It's all about social control, via money and power.  Freedom of speech remains, for the most part, an illusion.  It's like the Holy Grail:  nobody really knows what it looks like and nobody's found it - probably because it doesn't exist.  Like freedom of speech, it's an abstraction.

But like you, Red, I'm nevertheless a firm believer in freedom of speech.  In that respect, it's rather like a religion for me too.  It's out there, somewhere; and it must be defended, fought for, striven for.  Art galleries, libraries and museums are repositories of free speech.  Television could have been such a repository too, had Edward R. Murrow gotten his way; but capitalism intervened and purposely botched the job.

Along came the Internet, which was a haven for free speech until several years ago.  That's when big-money types moved in, with their "Terms of service" and other censorship methods.  Owners of really-big Web sites (deviantART, Facebook, etc.) hate freedom of speech, because it inconveniences them on their all-expenses-paid march to Nirvana.  Well, I'd better stop now.  Be thankful!



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[Captn' Red]

*cough* A little late, but, as promised.



And a video to go along with it.

Draw Muhammad Day (First Annual!)