Draw Muhammad Day 2: A Compilation

Wow! So many amazing drawings. Thanks for featuring me again this year, Hemant. I’m glad to be part of this.

Very nice. I think I like Ellysa’s best.

Where’s yours Hemant?

In the movie Blasphemy, Mohammad, Buddha and Krishna are sitting together on a couch, watching a movie. They order pizza.

Mohammad: “Sausage! Who ordered sausage?? Buddha was it you?”

Buddha: “Shut up and eat it. It’s not gonna kill ya!”

Mohammad: “You KNOW I don’t eat pork! You must respect that! It gives me heartburn…”

Krishna: “Relax your crack.”

That unicorn is not pink! Nor invisible! I am offended!

I had an idea for a drawing this year but I couldn’t get around to fleshing it out. Maybe I’ll just repost the one I drew last year.

Personally, I prefer the nickname “Hammy” over “Mo”. ASCII Art ftw.

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Let’s see mo’ of Mo’ !

Thanks for doing this Hemant. If we all survive the rapture tomorrow and the radical backlash on Sunday then we’ll be ok.

Ryan’s spirograph one is pure genius! All of them are appropriately offensive, good job people.

So many of these are quite amazing. I particularly like the one with the family pic on the refridgerator.

When people hear about Everybody Draw Muhammad Day, they want to know: Why do it? Why be jerks about it? Why are you all intolerant of Islam? Why be dicks when you can be friendly?

None of these questions came to mind. Rather, I couldn’t (and can’t) help but wonder, aren’t you worried about your safety?

I’ve enjoyed these both years, Hemant. I hope you’ll stay safe!

i’m not a very good drawing person so i’ll just make my Mo a smiley 😉

it’s just so absurd, isn’t it? i mean, devout muslims who knew the man himself used to draw him. are they are burning in hell right now? obviously not. they’re dead and don’t think, feel or act about anything one way or the other.

my knowledge of this topic is weak. why did the ban become popular, and who first began to enforce it, violently? i will be a devil’s advocate and also say that in a way, i sort of like the idea of a ban. if i were a believer, i’d like to be free to imagine that Mo looked ‘just like me’ or like people who i admire or something. the xtians do this; i’ve seen more images that differ of christ than i can count. everything from blonde, blue eyed Nordic jeebus to wooly haired bronze skinned afro-jeebus. i’ve even seen images of the mary and child figures in korean traditional style.

if you need to believe in a god, you should have the freedom to have a representation or icon of it. i honestly can’t understand why people would want to restrict that freedom, even if they are claiming to do it to ‘protect’ the faith. from, what exactly? bad artists like me? i doubt the god and its messengers are that intimidated by my smiley. and if they are, why worship them?

Attention Islamic terrorists who are planning on tracking down and killing all the artists who submitted drawings of Muhammad:

I just wanted to point out that with my entry, I did not actually personally do the drawing of Muhammad. I merely cut and pasted a few images I found on the internet into a compilation of mythical figures that some believe ascended up to heaven. The Islamic holy books don’t mention “cutting and pasting” as a killable offence. Certainly Allah would have had foreknowledge about “cutting and pasting” and included it in the Koran if it bothered him.

@Jeff P

Islamic Holy books don’t mention killing people for depicting Muhammad either.

Your point? That you haven’t read the Koran…?

Thanks H for posting my drawing. These are all awesome. Great statement we all made here.

Great work everyone, I’ve seen some images which seemed to focus on insulting or dehumanising muslims which didn’t sit very comfortably with me but these generally seem to come from a good place.
I don’t know if we’re voting for favourites but I liked Ash – Emohommad and Jose – Muhammed drawing himself best.

I didn’t have time to send mine in to you, Hemant, because I didn’t get it put together in time….but I did manage to put together an unofficial EP on behalf of my band, with Mohammed depicted on the cover (along with Jesus, to be fair). We called it the “Draw Mohammed Day/Rapture Weekend 2011 EP.” It’s free for download here:

http://alabamatheist.blogspot.com/2011/05/t3s-draw-mohammed-dayrapture-weekend.html

There is one reason and one reason only I don’t draw Muhammed. I can’t draw.

@ Muslim
Re:

Basically, Islamic terrorism is in response to Western neocolonialism.

…and Iraq and Afghanistan are in response to Islamic terrorism…and more Islamic terrorism is in response to Iraq and Afghanistan…

It’s a vicious cycle, no? Who’s going to stop killing first? My money’s on the atheists! So sad we have no power.

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But anyway, lots of great drawings here. Fighting absurdity with absurdity. Here’s hoping that this will not goad a similar vicious cycle.

@Jeff P

Why did you put Arab Spring in quotes?

Just because I have the right to say that Hemant is a dumb a$$ piece of sh** doesn’t mean that I should do it.

Sorry but being a dick to people just because you can isn’t right in my book.

@Ron:

“Just because I have the right to say that Hemant is a dumb a$$ piece of sh** doesn’t mean that I should do it….Sorry but being a dick to people just because you can isn’t right in my book.”

But what if Hemant claimed that you don’t have the right to insult him and that doing so is punishable by death? And what if he gathered a following of people who agreed with him, some of whom carried out that threat by murdering people who had insulted him? In the face of the violent Hemantians who continuously shouted that death awaits any who insult their leader, perhaps it would be worthwhile to organize a resistance to show that a free people will not be cowed. And what if it wasn’t limited to insults…what if *any* verbal description of Hemant was deemed offensive? Would you then not think that this would be worthy of some kind of response?

In light of this more accurate context, maybe you might realize that what is happening here has nothing to do with being a dick to people just for the sake of being dicks, but is a resistance to censure backed by threats of violence.

@Jim Baerg

The decline of the Muslim world in the sense of hegemonic dominance and power.

The decline of the Middle Eastern intellectualism began after the Mongol conquests.

Thought I would share some classical Arabic music based upon music sung in the mosques of Spain during the medieval ages since we’re on this subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikyXBS7vBc

I like the pictures, especially the ones pointing out the mistreatment of women and the ones that are just meant to point out the absurdity of being offended by a drawing of Mohammad.

I wrote an entry responding to criticism of EDMD and pointing out differences between EDMD as criticism of Islamic violence and actual discrimination against Muslims. I borrowed two of the pictures from this post for my entry, with credit to the drawers and to this site, of course. I hope that’s okay.

http://eternalbookshelf.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/on-everybody-draw-mohammad-day-year-2/

@Muslim:

What on Earth are you talking about? You are having some kind of fantasy debate in your head. I haven’t made any kind of argument about Israel being good or evil or right or wrong. My point was to counter your claim that terrorism is about Western neocolonialism by asserting it’s essentially about Israel (mixed with religious insanity)….I didn’t make any kind of point about Israel itself. And so far I haven’t heard you deny my assertion.

@Ash

*sigh*, you’re an aggressive and angry Atheist, you probably think I’m a terrorist as well.

I’m not having this conversation with you. You’ve already shown your true colors, gj.

@loopsyel:

Yeah, ‘Muslim’ jumped the shark with “you probably think I’m a terrorist”. But he still didn’t deny my assertions 🙂

@loopsyel

I’m a primitive raghead sandnigger and everything I do is inferior to you great Westerners.

The East has obviously never invented anything, the worlds first civilizations were in Europe (pahahahaha).

@Ash

I could care less now, fuck the West, go back to your “nuke the Mudslimes” rally.

I’m an apathetic Muslim.

Certainly there are multiple causes for the problems in the middle East. Neocolonialism, religion, entrenched monarchies, Israel, etc.

I’m personally of the opinion that low self-esteem of being down and out for too long is also a factor.
When you are on the top of your game, everybody else looks good and you can be tolerant of differing viewpoints. . When you are down and out, everybody else looks like they are out to get you and you circle the wagons and fight anything that is different. Here is to the Middle East moving to be on the top of their game. Once they get to the top of their game, they will probably not care if people draw Muhammad. They might even have joke draw Muhammad days themselves.

Was too busy yesterday :\ Will post something next year ^^
Good job guys. The more the merrier.

Religion poisons everything!

Actually, tribalism poisons everything and atheists are more than capable of engaging in that particular human foible.

timberwraith, I think this thing is as dickish as a woman getting topless in a beach where men dissaprove such action. Men with a history of killing women who went topless in the past, and burning down their home because of it.

If there are men who are in favor of individual liberty, all they have to do is say it. I welcome them with open arms. When nobody gives a fuck about drawing Mohammed, then nobody will draw Mohammed. The EDMD will disappear because it will be obsolete.

I guess we measure different values through different scales 🙂

@timberwraith:

“You are inadvertently whipping up increasingly ugly sentiments toward a minority faith.”

Really? How do you know that? Have you taken a scientific poll to see if EDMD has increased negative sentiments towards Muslims? I guess you haven’t and that you’re simply making assumptions. As far as you know, EDMD is having the intended effect: demystifying the drawing of Mohammad so that any given act of it is less offensive (or at least less agitating) leading to a reduction in tension. I think the fact that there are more drawings this year but much less noise being made about EDMD indirectly supports my contention.

And you do realize that the Internet is an international platform, right? Muslims might be a minority religion in the US, but this project isn’t aimed at American Muslims. In fact, it isn’t aimed at Muslims qua Muslims at all…it’s aimed at anyone who thinks that people should self-censure based on the religious preference of one group, especially when that preference is backed by threat of violence.

Are you denying that Israel plays a central role in modern terrorism? If you do, then you are no longer credible, since that seems like a plain fact.

Ash, what role do you mean? I suspect you mean that by Isael’s very existence it is a target of hate and that hate motivates terrorism by others.

Or do you mean that Israel is in fact an agent of terrorism in the way the PLO, al Queda, or Hamas are?

I thought so, and agree. It’s just as written I was afraid it was option #2.

i find it noteworthy that the only people on this thread to insult a living person are the believers. who also need to curse and insult to transmit their points, even tho no one did so to them first. how typical. thanks for giving us another example of why our theory about you is correct, and that you’re really just thin-skinned, insecure in your belief, and all about self-serving moralizing and judgement of others.

timberwraith,

I’m a member of various minority groups, too (female, LGBT, atheist from a Muslim family, family members from India, etc.) so I do side with Muslims when they’re being discriminated against (being stopped from building a mosque, targeted for profiling or for certain laws taking away rights, people making unfair generalizations about all Muslims, etc.) Likewise, if someone is being discriminated against by Muslims, I’ll side with that person as well. I can understand what it’s like to be discriminated against by the majority, but also to be discriminated against by a minority group that is itself a target of discrimination. Being LGBT and female, for example, I’d be discriminated against by many Christians (who are majority group) and many Muslims (who are a minority group).

I understand anger at those who are in the majority and perpetuating discrimination; I feel that way, too. (Though the reason I disagree with the above Muslim commenter is because he’s accusing people of holding views they didn’t actually express; if it’s unfair for people to generalize about Muslims, it’s unfair for Muslims to assume, by default, that anyone who disagrees with Islam must be racist/hate Muslims, must think Israel is perfect and never does anything wrong, etc.)

I get angry at anyone who favors discrimination, whether they are in the majority or not. Being against those who favor discrimination and happen to be in the minority doesn’t mean I favor discrimination against that minority group. Do you really think that I favor discrimination against my parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins because of actions taken by other Muslims? Of course I don’t! I get angry at anyone who suggests that all Muslims have to live with discriminatory laws because of what other Muslims did. Why should family and I be punished because other people who happen to have the same skin color or be from the same country or same religion did something wrong?

And I think the comparison you make with the pictures of atheists is unfair. Atheists don’t consider those dictators prophets and aren’t threatening people who draw them. (Plus, Mohammad was the founder of Islam while those dictators weren’t the founders of atheism.) If there were atheist groups who were threatening to kill anyone who drew a picture of, say, some famous atheists who many atheists are fans of, then yes, I think people would be justified in drawing pictures to make a point, especially if (as is that case with this entry) it came with a message that the point of the event was freedom of speech. It’s the reason/explanation behind the event which makes the difference for me.

I agree that there are some pictures I like and some I don’t like. I think the point of the event, though, is that even if I don’t like a particular picture, that does not mean I can ban or threaten the person who drew it.

Wrong all wars began with religion and its crusades and jihads! Ateists were just one the wrong place at the wrong time, and worst of worst ateist trought the history where thrated like an animals, and now they aspect us to love them, this religious fanatics. And tribalism, is standard isue of muslims countrys, not of ateism, we ateist do not group ourself, writing down holy books, how to live and how and who to kill, we just shere same opinion! We ateist do not threatn peoples around when they burn our national flag, and  its holy for americans as koran for muslims! And its also against the law, wich burning of koran and drowing mohamad isnt!!!

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