Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"

[briann]

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=313170

any takers here?

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."

Listen to Molly Norris on Dave Ross
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.

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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[briann]

By the way, here is my entry:

[syyuge]

By the way, here is my entry:

This topic should be better moved to the bizarre animals that lived section.
 

[Rubystars]

I did this in about 30 seconds. I don't have a stylus so the lines aren't very good on it. 

[muman613]

Watch out for the Fatwa!

[Dr. Dan]

The proper way to protest this is make all other religious figures respectable and mohamed has dung. Not make fun of all of them.

[briann]

I did this in about 30 seconds. I don't have a stylus so the lines aren't very good on it. 

Impressive cartoon.  i like the snake's body.

[Rubystars]

Thanks Briann. Yours was much better drawn though

[syyuge]

I did this in about 30 seconds. I don't have a stylus so the lines aren't very good on it. 

Impressive cartoon.  i like the snake's body.

Oh, snake the rattle! Otherwise I was thinking it to be the weird tail of some animal.

Strange only two good painters here.
    

[New Yorker]

EVERYBODY Draw Mohammed Day! What a fantastic idea!

It's like the scene in that movie where everyone says to the Romans "I AM SPARTACUS!"

The muzzies can't put a fatwah on EVERYBODY! They'll soon give up with the threats out of exasperation! 

[Dr. Dan]

I would draw a transvestite stick figure for Mohammed..

[Rubystars]

I am thinking of drawing him with a pig's butt for a face.