Draw Mohammed Day, May 20th

First!

It is juvenile, puerile and annoying people who have done nothing to bother me or interfere with my business.

But yes I will

Hell yeah! I think Xmas just came early! The most baffling thing is why didn't I think of this?!

I think an official Boards.ie Muhammad smiley is in order.

Edit: found one

Excellent idea, we should probably send them to Islam4UK. I would just love to see their reaction to thousands of drawings of Muhammed as a pig in shit.

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

I think an official Boards.ie Muhammad smiley is in order.

Edit: found one

Much prefer this one:

strobe wrote: »

MPAC.ie is the Irish equivalent, so that would probably be the place to send them if you are so inclined.

Be prepared for a devastating response if you do!

(An angry post on his blog, and maybe another fetching picture of Liam squeezed into his moo-moo in the Indo, having a rant about intolerance, and missing the irony.)

strobe wrote: »

I'm getting a couple of Mohammed t-shirts made up for myself in honour of the day. Will post pics.

I really like this one :pac:
Don't think they sell it anymore. I heard it bombed. *ba-doom tish* Thanks folks, I'm here all week!

Benny Lava celebrates his birthday on Draw Muhammad Day.

I wonder if the bakery will put Muhammad's face on the icing...

I will be drawing Muhammad anyway.

storm2811 wrote: »

Does anyone else think this is just taking the piss out of their religion?
Not all muslims get so offended by this and all but surely they have the right to believe what they want and yes,we have the right to draw pictures of Mohammed aswell,but this is just making fun of someone's beliefs is it not?

Agreed. I'm a Muslim and I was shocked by the Muslim reaction to the drawings of the Prophet (PBUH). Yes the images did anger me when I saw them. I thought ' Do they ever get bored of trying to make fun of our faith at any given opportunity? Do they ever get bored of discriminating against us?' but at the same time common sense told me that the Prophet taught us to go through these things and not to result to anger and violence, treat everyone with love and respect. Above all, I was shocked that Muslims don't seem to recall the harships the Prophet himself (PBUH) went through 1400 years ago. Surely a cartoon drawn buy some Danish guy ( who must have known the consequence to his actions; he provoked violence and I'm pretty sure he knew the emotionally volatile Muslim community would have responded badly) can't be the worse thing thrown at the Prophet (PBUH)?

The thing is we as muslims do not believe any one has the right to illustrate any holy figure; we do not consider ourselves worthy to depict such a divine being.

But so long as it's all in good humour and fun, you guys can have your ' draw Mohammad day ' just please try not to be disrespectful... I'm all for freedom of speech but freedom of insult is another matter all together. A piss take isn't nice... Neither is it*to make fun of any ones beliefs...*

But sure, Happy Holidays! Allah loves you all ( hopefully ...)

fufureida wrote: »

Agreed. I'm a Muslim and I was shocked by the Muslim reaction to the drawings of the Prophet (PBUH). Yes the images did anger me when I saw them. I thought ' Do they ever get bored of trying to make fun of our faith at any given opportunity? Do they ever get bored of discriminating against us?' but at the same time common sense told me that the Prophet taught us to go through these things and not to result to anger and violence, treat everyone with love and respect. Above all, I was shocked that Muslims don't seem to recall the harships the Prophet himself (PBUH) went through 1400 years ago. Surely a cartoon drawn buy some Danish guy ( who must have known the consequence to his actions; he provoked violence and I'm pretty sure he knew the emotionally volatile Muslim community would have responded badly) can't be the worse thing thrown at the Prophet (PBUH)?

The thing is we as muslims do not believe any one has the right to illustrate any holy figure; we do not consider ourselves worthy to depict such a divine being.

But so long as it's all in good humour and fun, you guys can have your ' draw Mohammad day ' just please try not to be disrespectful... I'm all for freedom of speech but freedom of insult is another matter all together. A piss take isn't nice... Neither is it*to make fun of any ones beliefs...*

But sure, Happy Holidays! Allah loves you all ( hopefully ...)

Religion is funny business, listen to this:

L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

Now, science fiction writers following the cue of some chap, I've forgotten his name now, Einstein, Beinstein, something like that, who said that MC squared over C wouldn't go, man, and that the speed of light could not be excessive. And actually I was looking up some speed tables the other day, and a trillion light years per day is not full throttle on a space wagon. So there's traffic between galaxies and there's traffic between islands of galaxies and other islands of galaxies. Interesting.

Now I don't really care if someone gets insulted when I say that its ridiculous, I'm sure someone would take offense but that's their problem wouldn't you say?

Flamed Diving wrote: »

That's your communities problem, it shouldn't be ours. There is a veritable treasure trove of Jesus funnies on the internet, yet you don't see Christians going around head-butting 66-year old men, burning down buildings, etc, over it.
Emotionally volatile is an apt term, because this behaviour reminds me of a drama queen.

but what I dont understand it why do somethig when you know it may provoke violence? You my call it freedom of speech and expression, but do you accomplish anythig good? No.. You don't. Just a couple of angry idiots making a mockery of the faith. It's pointless debauchery, especially at a time when the whole world looks at Muslims with alot of hostility iand then some guy comes slog and says ' ah sure, I'll draw a couple of pictures, they'll all go crazy and Muslims will look even worse then they already do. Wahey! '

I completely agree with you that our communities have this problem. But if the problem is their why provoke it? S'all I'm saying. For me, it's not a big issue but for alot it is...

Its funny this... The Quran desrcibes Him as ' pale and rosy cheeked' yet all these drawings are like black guys. Lol.

Shhh... Don't get me started on problems with the Christian communityiesin Ireland...