# "Everybody draw Mohammed" on May 20 to support South Park **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307 "2010-04-25T16:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/301 "2010-04-27T19:00:09Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s not the nudity that upsets me, but the curved rod up his ass. What’s upsetting me is that he seems to be enjoying it! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/302 "2010-04-27T20:35:00Z")
Not sure the answer to extremism is more extremism. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/303 "2010-04-27T21:03:45Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Not sure the answer to extremism is more extremism. But otherwise the extremists will win. Wait, that something doesn’t sound right. ETA Oh ya, we have to fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here. ETA 2 And they’ll thank us for it, welcoming us as liberators. All this time they’ve been waiting for someone as enlightened as us to come along and point out how silly their little make-believe world is. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/304 "2010-04-27T21:08:48Z")
A minority group bombing unsuspecting people going about their daily business, and flying planes into buildings in the name of Allah, is extremism and extremely offensive to western values. In the great scheme of things, another minority group drawing offensive cartoons is small potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/305 "2010-04-27T21:15:31Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > A minority group bombing unsuspecting people going about their daily business, and flying planes into buildings in the name of Allah, is extremism and extremely offensive to western values. Even when you do not seem to think that that is what happened? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/306 "2010-04-27T21:51:19Z")
By “minority group” perhaps he meant Republicans? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/307 "2010-04-27T21:56:29Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Even when you do not seem to think that that is what happened? 😃 He’s just been playing Dipshit’s Advocate on the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/308 "2010-04-27T22:03:52Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > No, just pointing out that people are really angry about one form of censorship, but perfectly fine with another form. In both cases we’re preventing from depicting an imagine someone else finds offensive through threat of force (jail time). Pictures of naked children are not a function of censorship, the ACT of using children for pornography is illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/309 "2010-04-27T22:08:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Uh, there was absolutely no way he could have stopped that from happening. He wasn’t there. He’s saying he will only fight when it actually means risking something, which is the exact opposite of what this protest is doing. It’s purpose is to make more people hate us, and rely on the fact that they can’t do anything about it. My point is that, eventually, they will be able to do something about it. > > The only way to actually create peace is to make it where, by the time they get to that point, they don’t want to. And the goal of this is to do the opposite. Eventually Iran will have nukes. And some Islamofascist will get a hold of it, and be perfectly fine with using it to destroy the people that they perceive as being assholes to them. > > BTW, I find it hilarious that Mister “We need to be as polite as we were in the 50s” is okay with doing something that is so impolite as to stir violent impulses. I have never seen the words “appeasement” and “knuckling under” spelled with so many letters. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/310 "2010-04-27T22:38:04Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > ETA 2 And they’ll thank us for it, welcoming us as liberators. All this time they’ve been waiting for someone as enlightened as us to come along and point out how silly their little make-believe world is. “welcome” certainly isn’t the right word but I suspect the women who are forbidden from going to school (because the soldiers of Mohammad deny them) might see things differently. “Unseen and stupid” seems like a sorry way to go through life. The Middle East countries are the most backward of any on earth and it’s entirely because a bunch of religious nut-jobs make it so. It was once the seat of intellectual power and now it’s stuck on stupid because of handful of Mo’s followers have twisted the religion into something monstrously evil. Saudi Arabia and countries like it are the reincarnation of the Christian dark ages complete with an Islamo Inquisition and the suppression of knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/311 "2010-04-27T22:48:59Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Not sure the answer to extremism is more extremism. Not sure that depicting major historical figures artistically is extremism. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/312 "2010-04-27T23:29:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Eventually Iran will have nukes. And some Islamofascist will get a hold of it, and be perfectly fine with using it to destroy the people that they perceive as being assholes to them. Indeed, it may occur to some Iranian Islamofascist with his finger on the button that we in the west should show proper respect to Mohammed by saying “Peace be unto him” (PBUH) whenever we mention his name. So we might as well get used to kissing Muslim ass right now, I guess?😛 ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/313 "2010-04-27T23:34:57Z")
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t there a depiction of Mohammed carved into the inside wall of the US Senate or House of Representatives? I recall visiting the building a number of years ago and I seem to remember it. There are the names and pictures of famous law-givers (Hamurabi is one that sticks in my mind) and I am almost certain that Mohammed is one of that group. Can someone confirm or deny? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/314 "2010-04-27T23:43:56Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > And then when he tells you that your women have to hide their faces, you just have them hide their faces. > > And then when he tells you they can’t leave their houses without a male relative, you just have them stay home unless they’re accompanied by a male relative. > > And then when he tells you that women can’t be in the same swimming pools as men, you just build his and her swimming pools. > > And then when he tells you that rape victims should receive 90 lashes for getting raped, you just write the necessary legislation to make it law. > > And then when he tells you that you have to bow to the east and pray five times a day, you just bow and pray. Get serious. I don’t see this problem in Muslim countries for non muslims > [@](#): > > And besides, how much power does a gang leader or bully really have if the whole neighborhood unites against him? None, that’s how much. Get real. Anyone who has grown up in a neighbourhood with bullies knows just what complaining about retribution for insulting the bully will get you. A lecture not to insult people. > [@](#): > > And that’s what the May 20 drawings are about - the neighborhood uniting against the bully. And the islamists are shaking in their boots :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/315 "2010-04-28T00:21:07Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > “welcome” certainly isn’t the right word but I suspect the women who are forbidden from going to school (because the soldiers of Mohammad deny them) might see things differently. “Unseen and stupid” seems like a sorry way to go through life. They’re allowed going in. They just aren’t allowed to leave when it’s on fire. > [@Magiver](#): > > The Middle East countries are the most backward of any on earth and it’s entirely because a bunch of religious nut-jobs make it so. It was once the seat of intellectual power and now it’s stuck on stupid because of handful of Mo’s followers have twisted the religion into something monstrously evil. Saudi Arabia and countries like it are the reincarnation of the Christian dark ages complete with an Islamo Inquisition and the suppression of knowledge. Well, when you figure out how to get them out of the stone age, perhaps you could spend a little time convincing Americans to embrace UHC 😛 So what it sounds like to me is that this has nothing to do with civil rights, and everything you do with you helping those backward Muslims join us in the 21st century. Good luck with that. I really can’t wait to see how this pans out, is it wrong that I enjoy chaos? The most ignorant of the West going toe to toe with the most ignorant of the Middle East. An epic battle of the witless. Two groups with a complete and utter lack of understanding for the other, attempting to change people’s minds, in the least successful way possible. I love it, and I especially look forward to South Park parodying it. ETA Colbert report-ed last night that there was an earth quake on the same day as the boobquake. ETA 2 Guess which country uses the metric system and which doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/316 "2010-04-28T00:36:55Z")
You may have noticed that I do not launch into Christians as much as I used to. In fact, tomorrow, I am taking part as a volunteer in an event sponsored by a Roman Catholic School (a non-religious educational event to help young people). Before you drop dead from surprise, let me put it this way. There was a bit of black humour (not African-American, “black” as in dark humour) going around in the 80s that there is nothing like AIDS to make gonorreah seem like an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time. As a gay person, I feel there is nothing like Islam to make even Christianity seem better. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/317 "2010-04-28T01:16:19Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > They’re allowed going in. They just aren’t allowed to leave when it’s on fire. I was referring to countries where the Taliban runs amok but setting little girls on fire qualifies. > [@emacknight](#): > > Well, when you figure out how to get them out of the stone age, perhaps you could spend a little time convincing Americans to embrace UHC 😛 Already addressed that with legislation. > [@emacknight](#): > > So what it sounds like to me is that this has nothing to do with civil rights, and everything you do with you helping those backward Muslims join us in the 21st century. > > Good luck with that. We’d settle for late 20th century. It’s starting to change now even in Saudi Arabia and Iran despite the political leadership. As we speak the[head of the Saudi religious police](http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=31722&t=Saudi+Arabia%3A+++Head+of+the+religious+police+in+Mecca%2C+men+and+women+can+pray+together) has suggested (gasp) that men and women pray together and co-exist in public. > [@emacknight](#): > > I really can’t wait to see how this pans out, is it wrong that I enjoy chaos? The most ignorant of the West going toe to toe with the most ignorant of the Middle East. An epic battle of the witless. Two groups with a complete and utter lack of understanding for the other, attempting to change people’s minds, in the least successful way possible. I love it, and I especially look forward to South Park parodying it. > > ETA Colbert report-ed last night that there was an earth quake on the same day as the boobquake. Must have been some serious cleavage in Indonesia before the December 26 tsunami of 2004. Or maybe something else triggers it. And yes, it’s wrong to enjoy chaos. > [@emacknight](#): > > ETA 2 Guess which country uses the metric system and which doesn’t. Guess which country invented the first airplane, broke the sound barrier, split the atom, and landed on the Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/318 "2010-04-28T01:32:56Z")
Is this something different because I live in Canada and not the US, or something? I took it for granted that [ReolutionMuslim.com](http://ReolutionMuslim.com) had pulled their veiled threat against South Park creators Parker and Stone, because I read it in the media. So how come that threat is still on their web page [here](http://revolutionmuslim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4384:south-park-to-air-episode-with-cartoon-of-the-prophet-muhammad-saaws&catid=52:abu-talhah-al-amrikee&Itemid=95) It is all there with the picture of the murdered Theo van Gogh and the link giving the address of Parker and Stone. Go see it for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/319 "2010-04-28T02:00:32Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Is this something different because I live in Canada and not the US, or something? I took it for granted that [ReolutionMuslim.com](http://ReolutionMuslim.com) had pulled their veiled threat against South Park creators Parker and Stone, because I read it in the media. So how come that threat is still on their web page [here](http://revolutionmuslim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4384:south-park-to-air-episode-with-cartoon-of-the-prophet-muhammad-saaws&catid=52:abu-talhah-al-amrikee&Itemid=95) > > It is all there with the picture of the murdered Theo van Gogh and the link giving the address of Parker and Stone. > > Go see it for yourself. I’m wondering if they checked to see if Theo Van Gogh’s body was on a two-way street? ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/320 "2010-04-28T03:02:21Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Guess which country invented the first airplane, broke the sound barrier, split the atom, and landed on the Moon. Guess which country invented the first parachute, soap, the process of distillation, the windmill, the military application of gunpowder, the stir-up used on horses (allowed for fighting while on horseback). And a bunch of other shit. I’m tired, it’s late, point is Muslim’s came up with a bunch of shit too. Canadian’s discovered insulin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307.md?page=17)