'Draw Muhammad' Cartoonist Goes Into Hiding After Assassination Threat

Exactly, drawing cartoons is not against the law, or their own beliefs.

I understand people being offended, the answer to them is just to ignore it or not bother looking at it.

DD

 

I am saying what I think B-Bob meant, as you asked. And it looks like B-Bob thought this story was about the Danish cartoonist.

In general, if you are asking my opinion and not B-Bob's, people have responsibility for the predictable consequences of their choices.

 

You are telling me that I'm Muslim and would be 'happy' to listen to me try to refute it?

FYI, the only evidence we have is that the authorities scared her by mentioning the Islamists.. not the Islamists directly. But I guess it's possibly you are also right.

About your last question, no I don't think it's significant to her. I think this is a small part of her life and she doesn't care about it very much. It is completely insignificant to her. Why would she care about going into a protection program? Besides, her life is unimportant in the grans struggle against those who slander the Prophet of Islam.

 

lol i dont understand. he said he wasn't muslim so maybe he's not muslim?

haha

 

That's great, but the key difference between us is that I don't care what you are. I treat you like everyone else - based on actions.

 

No kidding.

There were a few folks from up north in the mid-60's who had the bright idea to go to Mississippi and tell them they needed to change a few things. Those northerners wound up dead.

I guess they should have kept their traps shut. You know; being instigators and all. Guess they got what they deserved for sticking up for the rights of others. How dare they.

 

Um, yeah: this thread = serious business.

my main point stands, and it was completely ignored, in favor of glomming onto which cartoonist did what.

I was replying, you may note, to a poster (and not you). Saying "we Christians don't get mad when people draw Jesus" when we ourselves make velvet paintings and cheesy holograms of Jesus is not a valid argument against muslims being offended by drawings of Muhammad. I hope that would make sense, so I thought it was worth underlining.

I stand corrected on the Seattle cartoonist, and I do feel sorry for that person genuinely, caught between extremists on both sides: the Islamic extremists and those that want to poke Islam in the eye at every opportunity extremists.

Please accept my apologies for ever offering a different viewpoint from yours in one of your Islam-is-the-worstest threads. I think I can just stay out of them from here on. Cheers.

 

So, which victims of the violation of what rights violation are people like ATW trying to protect? People in the West whose rights to say things offensive to Muslims are being seriously violated like the civil and human rights of black people were violated in the South during Jim Crow?

Seriously?

Are peple like ATW trying to promote change in the Muslim world and protect some minorities or women in the Arab/Muslim world by promoting draw Mohmammed Day? Are they trying to make life of people (or of certain people) better over there? Sorry, I don't see it. I don't see how people like ATW even cares about making life better for anyone. Some peple, like Shirin Ebadi, are genuinely trying to make a change.

ATW and his kind, on the other hand, appear to simply enjoy doing things that promote violent reactions from some Muslims so that they can say "See how violent and backward those people are?!"

Yeah, there are a good number of those violent and backward Muslims out there. You made your point. Go celebrate or something. And by the way, we knew that already. Now what?

 

^^ Holy **** now I get it!

I was feeling so scared about losing my freedom of speech before all this happened. Now I feel so much safer and freer thanks to you brave people! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Now we are finally free of those Islamists! What bunch of ****ing heroes, eh?

 

well it doesn't say anything in the bible about not drawing the prophets face, and although it doesn't explicitly forbid the drawing of the prophets face there are hadiths that ban it.

it is supposed to protect the religion from idolatry, they believe only God should be worshiped, not Muhammad or Jesus