I still cant wrap my brain around folks killing other folks over cartoons. I do not want to insult my Islamic friends by drawing pictures of Muhammed, but my friends need to understand that if they do not reclaim their narrative of peace, their narrative of their own faith, they should not be insulted if I reject the censorship of what is becoming a more dominant narrative and draw the Prophet Muhammed every day, not to insult them, but because I refuse to live in fear, and refuse to give up my right to express my right to draw whatever I want, even if your faith finds my drawings to be irritating or offensive. And its not like depictions of Muhammad are something new, just that the violence is something new (last few decades). Google it. Its not hard. Maybe we all have to draw cartoons of Muhammed every day so that papers like Charlie Hebdo are not so easily singled out. This is the ugly truth when some people decide that assassination is the right way to deal with speech they disagree with, and other folks refuse to shut up just because you dont like what they have to say. Not to mention that images of Muhammed are everywhere already. Guess Google better watch their backs. https://google/search?q=mohammed&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IPatVPzSNsKlgwSVioTgAQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1158&bih=874#safe=off&rls=en&tbm=isch&q=prophet+mohammed
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:54:09 +0000