Why aren't we talking about "Draw Muhammad Day?" May 20th

You asked for a reason to start drawing Muhammad despite having no previous desire to do so. Preserving those guys' right to work unencumbered, and encouraging them to do so, and drawing back the fanatic focus from a relative handful of artists provides a reason.

Occom Bill wrote:

You asked for a reason to start drawing Muhammad despite having no previous desire to do so. Preserving those guys' right to work unencumbered, and encouraging them to do so, and drawing back the fanatic focus from a relative handful of artists provides a reason.

It wasn't the fanatics who encumbered Matt and Trey's work. By the artists' own accounts, they would have shown Muhammed anyway. It was Comedy Central's cowardly management who put their work back in the drawer. With this in mind, will you be satisfied if I punish Comedy Central management by not watching the Daily Show for a week? I assure you it's a sacrifice for me.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

"evil" is a social construct, there is no such critter as "evil" in nature.

Simpletons

by John Cole

The Fonzi of Freedom:

http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/18/get-ready-for-everyone-draw-mo


“Why We’re Having an Everybody Draw Mohammed Contest on Thursday May 20”

Because you’re idiots.

Anyone who thinks this will strike a global blow for freedom or will in any way change the way crazy Islamic radicals feel about cartoons of Mohammed seriously should just step back from the bottle. Although an “Everybody draw a glibertrian day” could be entertaining, and if this keeps the 101st Chairborne busy instead of advocating for the invasion/carpet-bombing of Iran, I fully support the endeavor.

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Forgot to mention they had to shut down the comments because of “gratuitously insulting imagery”. HOOCOODANODE!

Clowns.

you’re ignoring some pretty damned evil human conditions.

Many times, you can measure the quality of your argument by seeing who lumps in with you...

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Many times, you can measure the quality of your argument by seeing who lumps in with you...

Okay Okie. I guess that kind of idiocy is easier than actually trying to justify your bare naked ipse-dixitism.

I maintain that the only effect of this silly exercise is to make people feel better about themselves, and to further alienate moderate Muslims.
Cycloptichorn

And if Matt and/or Trey end up getting murdered, or having their houses burned; will you blame Comedy Central's cowardly management for that too?

[Irishk] ... boycotting something with which you aren't in agreement seems infinitely more reasonable than death threats.

In a May 18, 2010 article, "Why We're Having an Everybody Draw Mohammed Contest on Thursday May 20", Reason editor Nick Gillespie explained: "No one has a right to an audience or even to a sympathetic hearing, much less an engaged audience. But no one should be beaten or killed or imprisoned simply for speaking their mind or praying to one god as opposed to the other or none at all or getting on with the small business of living their life in peaceful fashion. If we cannot or will not defend that principle with a full throat, then we deserve to choke on whatever jihadists of all stripes can force down our throats."[41] Gillespie asserted, "Our Draw Mohammed contest is not a frivolous exercise of hip, ironic, hoolarious sacrilege toward a minority religion in the United States (though even that deserves all the protection that the most serioso political commentary commands). It's a defense of what is at the core of a society that is painfully incompetent at delivering on its promise of freedom, tolerance, and equal rights."[41]

The idea for the May 20 protest received support from Kathleen Parker, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post: "Americans love their free speech and have had enough of those who think they can dictate the limits of that fundamental right. [...] Draw to any heart's discontent. It's a free country. For now."[29] The idea also received support from prominent bloggers and bloggers on prominent websites, such as Michael C. Moynihan at Reason magazine's "Hit & Run" blog, who encouraged his readers to send him their drawings.[81] Moynihan stated he planned to select some of his favorite depictions of Muhammad from the protest movement, and then add them to the Reason.com website.[23][81] Moynihan commented, "In the South Park episode that started all this, Buddha does lines of coke and there was an episode where Cartman started a Christian rock band that sang very homo-erotic songs. Yet there is one religious figure we can't make fun of. The point of the episode that started the controversy is that celebrities wanted Muhammad's power not to be ridiculed. How come non-Muslims aren't allowed to make jokes?"[23] Moynihan noted, "Any time you cave into terrorism, it emboldens extremists," and posited that the decision of Comedy Central to enact self-censorship of the South Park episode would have the impact of worsening the situation.[23]