Everybody Draw Mohammed Day 2020
May 20, 2020
The Mohammed drawing will continue until it’s safe to draw Mohammed.
For the awesome Bosch Fawstin, pretty much every day is Draw Mohammed Day.
Ex-Muslims of North America reprise some of the classics.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day 2018
May 20, 2018
The Mohammed drawing will continue until it’s safe to draw Mohammed.
Ex-Muslims of North America (Facebook, Twitter) have a number of offerings to mark the occasion:
Happy Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!
May 20, 2017
A number of intrepid souls have contributed to the cause since the last time I covered drawing Mohammed:
- The awesome Bosch Fawstin celebrated Everybody Draw Mohammed Day last year by helping others celebrate Everybody Draw Mohammed Day—for those who wanted to join the cause but didn’t feel up to the task artistically, he offered to draw a Mohammed for each on their behalf; readers took him up on it, and 65 new Mohammed drawings were commissioned and sent out!
Dog Bites Islamist
April 15, 2017
Your good-news story of the day:
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Officials say a dog at a Nigerian wedding party grappled with a suicide bomber until her explosives detonated, killing the animal as well.
Buba Ahmed of Belbelo village, near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, says guests are grateful that the dog sacrificed itself to save their lives.
He says the teenage bomber was on the outskirts of a gathering where most villagers were attending a wedding ceremony when the dog pounced on her Sunday morning.
Dead-hand Control
April 11, 2017
Mark Steyn offers even more melancholy reflections than usual, as the soldiers of a thousand-year-old dead man draw the circle ever tighter on free expression in the West.
From Donald Trump’s big speech yesterday:
A Trump Administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration: we should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people.
In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.
In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law.
England Uses Modern Technology to Recreate Ancient Monument Destroyed by Throwback Barbarians
April 19, 2016
This is beautiful. Daesh/ISIS thugs destroyed another priceless ancient monument; so London has erected a new one.
Trump: Boy, Those Immigrants Sure Do Mistreat Women
February 8, 2016
Trump’s history of misogyny is not limited to Kelly, Brenner, and Ivana. For decades, he has degraded and objectified women, from Rosie O’Donnell to his own daughter, Ivanka.
Trump even admitted this was his M.O.
“You have to treat ’em like shit,” Trump told friend Philip Johnson, according to New York.
Exclude Islamists, Not Muslims
December 9, 2015
Donald Trump was never the person to go to for serious, thoughtful policy proposals. Maybe after he’s done sucking up all the media attention, the rest of us can have a serious conversation.
NRO’s Mark Krikorian has some ideas.
“It’s Time for a Grown-Up Alternative to Trump’s Crude Muslim-Immigration Proposal”
Muslims Mock Daesh
November 27, 2015
Speaking of helping delegitimize the terrorists, did you know that our Muslim allies and non-allies alike, as well as Israelis, are making fun of Daesh (ISIS) through sketch comedy and songs? Check out these, from Kurds on TV in Iraq, Palestinians, and Israelis (warning, some rude content):
Call the Islamic State ‘Daesh’, Help Delegitimate the Terrorists
November 27, 2015
“The state of donkeys in Iraq and Syria”
Did you know that the term for ISIS or the Islamic State preferred by many of its Arabic-speaking victims is “Daesh” (pronounced “die-EESH”)? The reasons for this are complex, as explored at length by Alice Guthrie at Free Word, but the short version is that thanks to various connotations and cultural context in the Arabic-speaking world, calling the terrorist group “Daesh” delegitimates them by making them sound “little, silly, and powerless,” but also “implies they are monsters, and that they are made-up.”
Priorities
November 19, 2015
What Progressivism Looks Like: Terrorists’ Murders Are Your Fault for ‘Insulting’ Them
November 15, 2015
Truly bizarre.
In light of the Charlie Hebdo shootings last winter and the terrorist attacks this week in Paris and elsewhere, I posted on Facebook, without comment, a link to where people can buy a T-shirt with the drawing of Mohammed from the contest in Texas earlier this year. It drew several responses from a person who is intelligent and well educated, who works in one of the cultural centers of our country, and who is also a relative, my own flesh and blood. Nevertheless, because he is also of the left, he said that I shouldn’t be “insulting” Muslims by spreading others’ drawings of Mohammed, and seemed to blame the artists and people like me for the murderers’ actions. I pushed back—surely he didn’t really mean that?—but he reiterated that it’s our own fault—“those who generalize and insult religious groups serve to fan long-burning flames”.
Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Briton Chris Norman after the attack on the train.
“The three Americans and Norman have already been awarded medals of bravery from the local mayor. Stone was still in the hospital, so he is not pictured in the Twitter photo above.”
If countries like France won’t allow the concealed carry of firearms, maybe the concealed carry of Americans is the next best way to stop would-be mass shooters. The Guardian reports:
A heavily armed gunman has opened fire on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris before being overpowered by three US citizens, two of whom were soldiers.
‘Jihadist Flypaper’
May 5, 2015
Continuing the discussion of the weekend’s victory for free speech in Texas, Jim Geraghty gets in some good lines.
Is it just me, or have we just invented a form of Islamist/jihadist/ISIS flypaper?
They wore body armor. They carried assault rifles. And one had declared loyalty to ISIS.
This is very good news. Ten years after the Danish newspaper the Jyllands-Posten took a stand for freedom by publishing a dozen drawings of Mohammed, America has produced some high-profile public Mohammed drawings of our own: The American Freedom Defense Initiative organized a big Mohammed Art Exhibit & Contest in Garland, Texas on Sunday, May 3rd (you heard it here first). See some of the drawings here (warning: some rude content). Via Creeping Sharia, Breitbart has some more of the drawings. (Apparently they received hundreds of entries in all.)
Drawing Mohammed: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
March 2, 2015
(My own contribution to the genre is below, the last item under “The Bad”.)
You’ll have heard about the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January, when Muslim gunmen killed the editor in chief and apparently more than a third of the cartoonists at the magazine, among others. You may not have heard that there have already been other attacks since then, such as the St. Valentine’s Day shooting at a free-speech event in Denmark (CBS, Mark Steyn, more Steyn), or the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya.
Islamists Beheading Civilians in—America?
September 30, 2014
You know that Islamic State terrorists beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff several weeks ago, but did you know that Muslims were beheading Americans in America?
From local ABC affiliate WABC in New York, February 11th, 2013:
GRUESOME DOUBLE MURDER, MEN DECAPITATED
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The victims are reportedly from Jersey City, but their remains were found buried in a town southwest of Philadelphia.
Meriam Ibrahim, Sentenced to Death in Muslim Sudan for ‘Apostasy’, Free and Alive with Her Family in America
August 5, 2014
Sometimes the news that makes headlines is good news; sometimes this story has a happy ending:
“Meriam Ibrahim, Sudan Woman Who Faced Death Over Faith, Receives Hero’s Welcome In U.S.”
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a “world freedom fighter” and later by cheering supporters waving American flags in New Hampshire.
Enjoyment and Contemplation 