Today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. I’m an extreme opponent of Israel’s apartheid regime and occupation of Palestine, and make great sacrifices to boycott Israel as much as possible, and my products won’t even run in Israel. I’m totally opposed to the occupation of Iraq, and before the war I organised a protest march against it of 100,000 people in Adelaide, which is the biggest protest Adelaide has ever had. I am opposed to the sanctions against Iran, and the threats of war against Iran, and I strongly support Iran’s right to switch to nuclear power (burning fossil fuels will destroy the planet). And I think Hamas and Hezbollah play a vital role in defending their countries.
But I will not tolerate Islamists making death threats against cartoonists for innocently portraying Islam’s founder and prophet, Mohammed! The cartoon South Park showed Mohammed as a member of the Super Best Friends, a team of all the world’s religious leaders who fight crime with super powers, and South Park’s creators have received death threats because of it, which has led to it’s two-part 200th episode special being massively censored by cowardly TV networks. Non-Muslims do not have to follow Islamic law, and Muslims just have to accept that. And so, in response to the constant death threats from Islamists, everyone has decided to draw Mohammed and show it publicly on this day, the 20th of May, in solidarity with South Park, and on the principle that they can’t kill us all. One of the facebook groups dedicated to this event has 40,000 members taking part. That’s a lot of Mohammed cartoons!
Here is my first ever drawing of Mohammed (Parody Be Upon Him):
The Islamic prophet Mohammed after solving a sudoku puzzle.
See, that wasn’t so bad. No need to kill me. (Of course if you do kill me it won’t help, since there are 40,000 other people doing the exact same thing, and killing me will only provoke them to draw a whole lot more and recruit a whole lot more cartoonists to the cause).
Islamists nutcases got me banned from my facebook account though (for nothing), so I’m not going to leave it at that. That was just a warm up. So I drew a much more humourous cartoon which includes some actual satire and criticism, and which doesn’t suck up to Muslims quite so much. This is the sort of satire that everyone in the civilised world has had to learn to accept in order for society to function, and we will not be making exceptions for Muslims.
Here are some screenshots I took from the recently discovered controversial pilot episode of Pokemon, where they had originally cast the Islamic prophet Mohammed (Parody Be Upon Him) as a member of Team Rocket. This was later changed to James for the TV version. Note that if you haven’t watched Pokemon, this probably won’t mean anything to you. And in case you are wondering, James is a man, and no he’s not gay. And this is a real scene from Pokemon episode 2, with the dialog unchanged.
I strongly urge you all to draw Mohammed yourself today. It takes less than a minute to do a quick sketch. It doesn’t require any artistic talent. A stick figure would do. United we stand, divided we get picked off one by one. If you value cartoons, free speech, or democracy, you can’t just sit back and do nothing.
