Love a Muslim: Seattle version

[billcoe]

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

 

Headline: Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"

 

OK.....sounds innocent enough, what could possibly piss anyone off with this fun idea to explore how folks feel about religious tolerance?

 

I wonder what other nuggets of wisdom that the next Molly Norris "post modern stress disorder" cartoon will contain?

 

Edit to remove stupid cartoon

 

 

[billcoe]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/04/creators-of-everybody-draw-muhammad-day-abandon-effort-after-it-becomes-controversial.html

 

She chickens out and cancels the event. Turns out, she has learned that Muslims would be unhappy and "who knew that would happen"?

 

"why did she send the cartoon to the media in the first place? "Because I'm an idiot," Norris replied."

 

Wellllll DUHHH! HELLO! MCFLY, ANYONE HOME UP THERE

[JayB]

As long as everyone exercises their first-amendment rights in a sharia-compliant manner, everything will be just fine.

 

"An extremist issues the death sentence, a moderate explains why you deserve it."

 

 

[JosephH]

Everyone has a god given right to whack a hornets nest and then stand there and watch - you just better be sure you have thick enough skin for the response before you swing that stick.

[prole]

Please register my outrage at this hostile act of aggression!!... Wait, what?

[tvashtarkatena]

If Zombie Jesus and Bobblehead Mohammed went mano a mano, who would win?

[tvashtarkatena]

Yet more proof that some people are more trouble dead than alive.

[tvashtarkatena]

The cartoonist should have posted her contest on CC, where you can't swing a really large house cat without hitting a death threat.

[archenemy]

I hate cats.

[prole]

The cats don't care.

[tvashtarkatena]

I can haz pork?

[rob]

i like porking.

[JayB]

Everyone has a god given right to whack a hornets nest and then stand there and watch - you just better be sure you have thick enough skin for the response before you swing that stick.

 

You seem to be suggesting that it's the person that's deciding when there'll be trouble in this scenario. That is, what constitutes "swinging the stick." As this and virtually every other scenario like it demonstrates, it's clearly the "hornets" that decide what constitutes a provocation that invites violent retribution, and what doesn't.

 

How consistently are you willing to apply this framework to religious fanatics? Is every doctor that performs abortions heedlessly inflaming the sensibilities of Christian fundamentalists in such a way that we should all just yawn and drop the "hornet-stick" metaphor when one or two of them get murdered?

 

 

[JosephH]

And every hold is solid, every placement is perfect...

[JayB]

And every hold is solid, every placement is perfect...

 

Every evasion wrapped in a cryptic allusion to sport-climbing in the place of a clear statement of principle is, actually, a perfectly clear answer.

 

Good to know where you stand on this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Choada_Boy]

I think every Muslim should wear a yellow Crescent Moon so I know who not to offend.

[prole]

These fanatics must be shown the error of their ways BY ANY MEANS PALATABLE!!!

[prole]

Literally. Who wants a Mochachino?

[prole]

You mean IRAQ was not an effective deterrent?

[tvashtarkatena]

If I had to go through life not offending anyone...

 

...yeah...not good.

[JosephH]

Oh, is there a principle in there?

[tvashtarkatena]

I believe the principle is

 

"Hey, humorless, religious fundamentalists: Kiss my ass!"

 

a principle I wholeheartedly agree with.

[JayB]

I believe the principle is

 

"Hey, humorless, religious fundamentalists: Kiss my ass!"

 

a principle I wholeheartedly agree with.

 

[tvashtarkatena]

Fucking idol worshippers deserve ebbyting dey get.

[JayB]

Oh, is there a principle in there?

 

Internal dialogue?

 

Broader question about the:

 

-decadent fin de siecle nihilist routine that kicks in at every ridiculous pretext for outrage. "Stop making trouble with your cartoons."

 

-Craven self-censorship masquerading as courtesy that characterizes a good chunk of the Western response to the same?