# "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:** 18
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/341 "2010-04-28T19:32:43Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > People also don’t take threats well either…even more so. Because it’s not just the cartoon. It’s the movie. It’s the book. It’s someone fatwa’d to death for converting away from Islam. It’s a gay person executed for being born. It’s children burned in a building because of their mere presence without a head covering. Islam is easily offended into murder on so many levels that people in the US are done with it. Yes, this may cause more violence but as OBL found out, we take it seriously. The group that created the Christmas bomber has been targeted and bombed. Any group that increases it’s communications over the May 20 event will provide more intelligence material for the NSA. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/342 "2010-04-28T23:26:15Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I have never seen the words “appeasement” and “knuckling under” spelled with so many letters. Fine. I wasn’t wasn’t going to pull this, but why not, since I’m getting insulted anyways: Do you think we were appeasing Iraq by not blowing the shit out of them? Or,m better yet, Afghanistan? Almost everyone here seems to think we should have tried diplomacy first before taking a military action. That’s what I’m talking about. You guys have not exhausted all options that wouldn’t be offensive before trying the ones that are. I think this is irresponsible. You claim high and mighty ideals, but your actions show you are just doing it to piss people off. That is always morally wrong, but I people here seem to disagree with me on that. So I decided to be more practical, and explain real world consequences of being an asshole. Unless you are willing to be the ultimate asshole and kill people, being an asshole doesn’t work. It’s like a guy with a baseball bat going against a trained assassin. Islamofascists are assholes of the highest order. We can’t compete, and we shouldn’t try. I don’t mean actually appeasing their beliefs. I mean showing them that their beliefs are stupid. You can’t outright tell anyone that, but you can demonstrate it slowly over time. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/343 "2010-04-29T01:48:44Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > 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? Confirm. The prologue of [this episode](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/322/Shouting-Across-the-Divide) of _This American Life_ briefly talks about CAIR’s attempt to have it altered. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/344 "2010-04-29T04:01:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Fine. I wasn’t wasn’t going to pull this, but why not, since I’m getting insulted anyways: > > Do you think we were appeasing Iraq by not blowing the shit out of them? Or,m better yet, Afghanistan? Almost everyone here seems to think we should have tried diplomacy first before taking a military action. What conversation do you think we were going to have in Afghanistan involving the Taliban? “Please stop raising boys from age 5 as killing machines”? Give us OBL in exchange for\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/345 "2010-04-29T04:14:18Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Guess which country invented the first airplane, broke the sound barrier, split the atom, and landed on the Moon. [New](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford) [Zealand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse)? > [@](#): > > What conversation do you think we were going to have in Afghanistan involving the Taliban? “Please stop raising boys from age 5 as killing machines”? Give us OBL in exchange for\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_? “[… an end to the bombing.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/17/afghanistan.terrorism11)” ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/346 "2010-04-29T04:24:28Z")
I noticed on tonight’s episode of South Park that “fuck” and “cock” were censored. 11pm on a cable channel. They did show a shark fuck a little boy, and could say “jizz” and “asshole.” The terrorists have already won. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/347 "2010-04-29T04:27:53Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [New](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford) [Zealand](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse)? We already had that conversation in another thread. And no, even Pearce admitted that wasn’t the case in 2 letters to the newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/348 "2010-04-29T04:32:35Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > “[… an end to the bombing.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/17/afghanistan.terrorism11)” Wrong country but you’re getting closer. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/349 "2010-04-29T04:38:46Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > We already had that conversation in another thread. And no, even Pearce admitted that wasn’t the case in 2 letters to the newspaper. You forgot Rutherford. > [@Magiver](#): > > Wrong country but you’re getting closer. What? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/350 "2010-04-29T06:41:06Z")
On one of the other threads relating to this it was suggested that the group starting all the trouble might not be legitimate. If that’s the case the fallout against them will be substantial. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/351 "2010-04-29T18:30:22Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > I noticed on tonight’s episode of South Park that “fuck” and “cock” were censored. 11pm on a cable channel. > > They did show a shark fuck a little boy, and could say “jizz” and “asshole.” > > The terrorists have already won. Most of the time, the bleeps are put into South Park deliberately by the producers. It was only in episode 201 that Comedy Central put in the extra bleeps after the finished episode was turned in to them. They once did an episode (It Hits the Fan) in which the word “shit” was uttered uncensored about 175 times. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/352 "2010-05-21T05:29:21Z")
It appears May 20th came and went. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/353 "2010-05-21T06:37:41Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > It appears May 20th came and went. And all that happened was [Facebook got banned](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_hi_te/as_pakistan_facebook) in Pakistan. :smack: The Terrorists of Islam have Won ---
**Author:** ![Zerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/82dd89/32.png) [@Zerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zerc)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/354 "2010-05-21T11:54:42Z")
One of South Africa’s newspapers published an extremely mild cartoon of Muhammed and the Council of Muslim Theologians tried to stop them. Article at [http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-21-uproar-over-mg-prophet-muhammad-cartoon](http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-21-uproar-over-mg-prophet-muhammad-cartoon) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/355 "2010-05-21T12:34:02Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > It appears May 20th came and went. Well, the (wisely anonymous) author of the usually blasphemous webcomic **Jesus and Mo** [has really outdone himself for the occasion](http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/05/20/), even managing to shock me which takes some doing in the blasphemy stakes. I don’t know whether to applaud or run away. Consider yourself warned. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/356 "2010-05-21T13:22:27Z")
Clever. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/357 "2010-05-25T17:34:29Z")
So, the whole thing is a social experiment attempting to illustrate the concept “Do Not Feed The Trolls”? ---
**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:** [May 25, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/358 "2010-05-25T18:34:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Clever. It’d have been better if there was a pair of tits and Mo said, “Praise be to Zeus! Look at the knockers on that chick. Who is she?” ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/359 "2010-05-25T19:58:55Z")
“Your wife.” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-draw-mohammed-on-may-20-to-support-south-park/537307/360 "2010-05-25T20:00:58Z")
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