The offices of a French satirical newspaper that “invited” the Prophet Muhammad as a guest editor, has been seriously damaged after it was petrol bombed.
The front-page of the Charlie Hebdo weekly showed a cartoon-like man with a turban, white robe and beard smiling broadly and saying, in an accompanying bubble “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing”.
These are some photos I’ve collected from last week’s Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.
Taken from the Norman Rockwell painting:
Of course, poking fun at anything needs a yo dawg.
Over on reddit, there was an interesting discussion as to whether folks were okay with making fun of 9/11, since people were making fun of Islam and Mohammed. So, here’s a picture from that discussion.
There are also now talks from Muslims about Everybody Draw the Holocaust Day and Everybody Deny the Holocaust Day. To each his own. Free speech is vital to society. Tacky, distasteful, or intelligent, we all need to protect free speech.
Apparently, he’s been hidden quite often this week and lots of people have been looking for him.
“No one has the right to not be offended.” -Phillip Pullman
Don’t forget to join the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day on May 12th.
At the Mohammed Image Archive, you can view all the “blasphemous” pictures of Mohammed you could possibly want.
While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it’s just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.
This page is an archive of numerous depictions of Mohammed, to serve as a reminder that such imagery has been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages — and to serve as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression.
