Dhimmitude and Draw Mohammed Day
13th Century Persian depiction of Mohammed, artist unknown, via Mohammed Image Archive
I noted the other day that Internet jihadists were leaving death threat comments on the Facebook page of the “Draw Mohammed Day” organizer. Now, the Internet jihadi sympathizers are crowing this morning on Twitter about Facebook taking the DMD page down. As I write, the page appears to be back up. Who knows for how long. [Update 10:21pm: See Allahpundit for the latest shenanigans.]
If you’ve been reading this blog regularly for years, you know that dhimmitude at social networking and Web2.0 sites is nothing new. Nor is dhimmitude in the MSM or in higher education or in Washington. It’s the Achilles’ heel of Western civilization.
In honor of Draw Mohammed Day today, I’m reprinting below the post I published on January 1, 2006 during the original Mohammed Cartoon conflagration and the post I wrote at the end of 2006 on the deceit behind the manufactured Mo outrage. We’ve been here before. It’s about much more than free speech. The Muslim cartoon jihadists know it. As Zombie writes in a trenchant essay today: “Which side in this conflict gets to determine what counts as “disrespectful” (a contemporary euphemism for “blasphemous”)? In the jihadists’ view, any depiction of Mohammed — even a positive or honorific depiction — is deemed blasphemous. It’s our religion, they say, so we get to say what’s offensive. Yet if we grant them this inch, they’ll take another inch (it’s also disrespectful to write Mohammed’s name without a worshipful “PBUH” after it), and another inch (it’s disrespectful to criticize Islam in any way), and before long it’s the whole mile, and we once again will be living in an intellectual Middle Ages in which religious tyrants dictate our every thought and action.”
And as Oriana Fallaci warned before her death: “The hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. The clash between us and them is not a military one. It is a cultural one, a religious one, and the worst is still to come.”
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Flashback…
SUPPORT DENMARK: WHY THE FORBIDDEN CARTOONS MATTER
MichelleMalkin.com
January 30, 2006
Last October, I blogged about a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its cartoonists being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive by Islamist p.c. bulllies. See here and here.
For the past four months, The Brussels Journal has relentlessly covered the ensuing uproar from the Muslim world and the battle over the newspaper’s freedom to publish provocative speech.
Things came to a head over the past week. In Gaza City, Palestinian gunmen took over an EU office to protest the cartoons:
Masked gunmen today took over an office used by the European Union to protest the publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam. About five gunmen stormed the building, closing the office down, while 10 other armed men stood watch outside. One of the militants said they were protesting the drawings, one of which depicted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb.
Danish flags are being burned. Danish workers have reportedly been beaten. The country now faces an international boycott from Muslim nations.
While the intrepid newspaper has not apologized for printing the cartoons, it has issued a statement acknowledging that the cartoons “offended many Muslims, which we would like to apologize for.” Paul Belien at The Brussels Journal singles out the courage of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has refused to capitulate to the bullies:
He is one of the very few European politicians with guts. If anyone deserves a prize for his valiant defence of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, it is certainly Mr Rasmussen. He did not give in to pressure from Muslim fanatics, nor from the appeasers at the UN, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. In the past weeks Denmark has shown that all is not yet lost in Europe. If something is rotten now it is not in Denmark.
Here, for posterity and in solidarity with the paper’s free speech rights, are the 12 forbidden cartoons:
In response to the notion that the West (or Islam) has ever followed the prohibition against depicting Mohammed, Zombie has created the “Mohammed Image Archive,” which contains dozens of Mohammed images from throughout history. A must-read.
Zombie e-mails:
I think it’s important that the West stands up on this issue: if we cave into Muslim demands for self-censorship, our freedom of speech will be taken away forever.
Exactly right. And for those who think this isn’t affecting us, open your eyes:
Local Radio Skit Sparks Muslim Controversy (KFI radio host Bill Handel is fighting back.)
Criticizing Islam on the airwaves
CAIR’s war on conservative talk radio
Brian Maloney: Islamists 1, Talk Radio, 0
LGF: CAIR goes ballistic over B.C., Dr. Laura
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There is now a Buy Danish campaign in response to Saudi Muslims boycotting Denmark’s products.
Butter cookies, here we come!
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What did Bill Clinton have to say about the cartoon controversy? You won’t be surprised.
More at LGF.
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Feedback:
Reader David S…
By threatening to kill those who insult them, the terrorists are
demonstrating the vicious reality behind the caricature of Mohammad
wearing a bomb-shaped turban better than any cartoonist ever could.
Reader Mike W…
Buy Legos. Lots and lots of Legos. Especially the Mindstorm programmable robotics kits. Danish company and non-fattening.
Reader Fritz R…
The utter hypocrisy is that Muslim countries regularly lampoon Christians and Jews in their comics while demanding the west refrain from any criticism of Islam.
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Feb. 8, 2006 update:
All posts to date:
Video: Breaking the taboo
The Muhammed Cartoons blogburst under attack
We are in this together
Origins of a fake Muhammed cartoon
Iran is burning
The Danish cartoonists respond
Cartoon jihad: the map
Mara-l equivalence
So, will our Supreme Court be next?
Pakistani doctors: No more European medicine
Chechnya joins the Cartoon Jihad
“With our blood we will redeem the prophet”
He shouted “Allah Akbar”
Stupid Islamist stunts
Video: Cartoon Jihad debate on Fox News
The lies of the Danish imams
Fanning the flames
Standing up in Australia
What does the American left have to say?
Another day, another embassy torched
It is not a “row”
Video: And then they came for the embassies
First, they came: the movie
Don’t forget: Buy Danish
In their own words
The Muhammad Cartoons blogburst
The State Dept takes sides in the cartoon wars
Followers of the Religion of Peace
bin Laden as Christ
The “International Day of Anger”
The cowardly American media (video added)
Support Denmark…and Piglet!
In search of a brave American newspaper (updated)
First, they came for the cartoonists
Fight the bullies of Islam
Support Denmark: Why the forbidden cartoons matter
The cartoons Islamists don’t want you to see
The forbidden cartoons
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Flashback…
2006: The year of perpetual outrage
MichelleMalkin.com
December 20, 2006
It began with the Danish cartoons. It ended with the flying imams. 2006 was a banner year for the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Twelve turbulent months of fist-waving, embassy-burning, fatwa-issuing mayhem, intimidation, and murder resounded with the ululations of the aggrieved. All this in the name of defending Islam from “insult.” Let’s review.
In late January, masked Palestinian gunmen took over a European Union office in Gaza City to protest the publication of a dozen cartoons about Islam, Mohammed, and self-censorship in the Danish newspaper, the Jyllands-Posten. They stormed the building, burned Danish flags, and spearheaded an international boycott of Denmark products across the Muslim world.
The rage was manufactured pretext. The cartoons had been published four months earlier with little fanfare. It wasn’t until a delegation of instigating Danish imams toured Egypt with the cartoons—plus a few inflammatory fake ones including an old image of a French hog-calling contest participant deceptively portrayed as “anti-Muslim”—that the fire started burning. Think the mainstream media will remember that? Not likely. They fell for the ruse and were slow to acknowledge it after American bloggers and Danish television exposed the scheme.
What was really behind Cartoon Rage? Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time.
Alas, Western journalists, analysts, and apologists were too clouded by their cowardice and conciliation to see through the smoke. More than 800 were injured in the ensuing riots and 130 people paid with their lives. The innocents included Italian Catholic priest Andrea Santoro, who was shot to death in Turkey on Feb. 5 by a teenage boy enraged by the illustrations. The Muslim gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he murdered Father Santoro while the priest knelt praying in his church. Several brave moderate Muslim editors who stood up to the madness were jailed, fined, and convicted of crimes related to insulting Islam. The Danish cartoonists remain in hiding.
The world soon tired of Cartoon Rage, but the “peaceful” Muslim ragers were just warming up. They found excuses large and small to riot and threaten Western infidels.
In India, they protested the magazine publication of a picture of playing card showing an image of Mecca and also burned Valentine’s Day cards. An insult to Islam, they screamed. In Spain, they protested a Madrid store for selling a postcard with a mosque on it with the words “We slept here.” An insult to Islam, they protested.
In Pakistan, they burned down a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, a Pizza Hut, and toppled Ronald McDonald. In Jakarta, they smashed the offices of Playboy magazine. You know why.
In June, the trial against lioness journalist Oriana Fallaci for insulting Islam commenced in Bergamo, Italy. She had been charged by professional Muslim rager Adel Smith of the Muslim Union of Italy of “vilipendio”—vilifying Islam—in her post-9/11 books slamming jihad. A judge had refused to throw out the case. She faced a pile of death threats and accusations of “Islamophobia” for speaking truth to Islamo-power.
Fallaci’s death from cancer during the fifth anniversary week of the September 11 terrorist attacks preempted the trial in Italy, but her passing did nothing to preempt the eternal rage of the perpetually outraged. The day she died, the grievance-mongers were shaking their fists and calling for the head of Pope Benedict XVI for his speech that made reference to a 14th century conversation touching on holy war and jihad.
For engaging in open, honest intellectual and spiritual debate, he was condemned, lit afire in effigy, and targeted anew. The ragers bombed Christian churches in Gaza City and Nablus.
They murdered Italian Sister Leonella Sgorbati, an elderly Catholic nun shot in the back by a Somalian jihadist stoked by Pope Rage. “Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim,” a Somalia cleric had declared. The Vatican made nice with Muslim leaders.
New outrages are always in bloom. In late September, it was a Berlin production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo” that featured the decapitated head of Mohammed. A week later, it was a banyan tree attacked by Indonesian Muslims who wanted to disprove its mystical powers. A few days after that, it was former British foreign secretary Jack Straw, who had the audacity to make the very obvious observation that full Muslim veils impede communications between women and Westerners. Offensive! Disturbing! An insult to Islam!
Not to be outdone, a delegation of extortionist imams boarded a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis in November and tried to manufacture an international human-rights incident.
They clamored for a boycott and threatened to sue.
The good news: The fire did not catch here this time. The bad news: As Oriana Fallaci warned before her death: “The hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. The clash between us and them is not a military one. It is a cultural one, a religious one, and the worst is still to come.”
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That’s not what I said, happy. Read the last sentence of my post.
What I will say is this: just because I choose not to purposefully show disrespect for something shouldn’t reasonably lead to an automatic conclusion that I respect it.
It’s not about moral equivalence. It’s about not playing games that purposefully offend moderate Muslims.
You and I don’t have to agree, perhaps, but there is no need to be rude.
I’m sorry if you thought I was being rude. That was not my intention. Just expressing MY opinion. I don’t think anyone who believes in a prophet who advocates killing innocent people deserves respect. And the koran specifically says that in many places.
And, Vickisoup, just to be clear, I have no respect for the mooslum “religion” in general. Their “prophet” is a pedophile who consumated a “marriage” with a 6 year old child. And his writings are full of violence and admonishments to lie to and kill anyone who is not mooslum. How can you call that a religion, leave alone respect it? Sorry, I just can’t.
Did mine.
AWESOME!
Maybe we should produce a children show with Mo as a dimwitted rabbit (kinda like Palestinian TV) who’s arrested and imprisoned for molesting baby rabbits…
Aw, c’mon, HS, cut the pedophile a break.
She was 6 when he “married” her.
But, at least he waited until she was 9 before he “consummated” the marriage.
That’s got to count for something, right?
/sarc dripping…up to knee-high…!
When I put new clip-in pedals on my mountain bike, they rubbed the chain guide, so I had to file them. Does that make me a…
I think that I am having cramps. I think I will tear a page out of my Q’uran to help with the aftermath.
And Joseph Smith took over 20 wives, some of them as young as 14 years of age and several while they were still married to someone else.
He’s the prophet to the Mormons.
Do you respect Mormons?
Think I’ll put a little statue of mohommad in a jar of ur!ne and get a grant from NEA for my artistic impression. Pi$$ Prophet.
Both used supposed “visions from God” to excuse inexcusable behavior.
I am amazed anyone revers them.
Islam means submission.
Islam and Western Civilization are incompatible.
The time is fast approaching to decide if we will submit or fight.
vickisoup,
I don’t really respect Mormonism, but I do respect Mormons. They aren’t threatening to cut off the heads of those who don’t accept their faith. I have no respect for mooselimbs.
Sigh.
Facebook has taken down the EDMD page.
Surrender … this is what it looks like.
No kidding. Next thing you know some nut will have a “vision from God” to march his own son up a mountain and offer him up as a human sacrifice.
I wonder if you really mean that.
There is the dearest Muslim family operating the corner convenience store by my office. A man, his wife and his two young adult children. They’re Afghani. I not only respect them for their honest hard work and kindness and gratitude to their patrons, I love them.
“No kidding. Next thing you know some nut will have a “vision from God” to march his own son up a mountain and offer him up as a human sacrifice.”
Na, not so extreme – how about a Comedy Show on Comedy Central featuring Jesus Christ – ya, thats the ticket.
Bless you artistic Sir
May your flocks and herds proper
May all four wives be submissive
Allie Opp Opp, oop oop.
terrorists in the name of religion
Wow, chap–is that also in the Koran?
Yes, and young boys are part of the attraction.
Murder, pedophilia, homosexual rape, lying, torture. What a religion!
So, you have one religion where you have to send your son to die for God – and another where God sent His Son to die for you – and another where there is no God. I’ll go with door #2.
1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
It’s not true because I want it to be, chap. I believe it because it’s true.
Psalm 14: “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’”
These incidents seen through the very narrow view of humans without spiritual revelation cannot be understood. You judge things based on your own personal experience or lack thereof. I think it’s safe to say to understand these things without them being spiritually revealed by the Lord to you is impossible. People who do not believed and have not had a spiritual revelation call God a “ghost in the sky.” Well, to them, based on their own personal experiences of lack of, I guess that’s what He is. Unless He has revealed Himself to us, we cannot know, we cannot understand. One more thing, to argue with a non-believer and try to convince them that they have a scewed vision is a waste of time. Until He is revealed to them by His mercy, all is wasted.
1. Mohammed is to be revered.
2. Mohammed cannot be depicted pictographcally.
3. Mohammed is capable of being blasphemed.
Are they sure Mohammed is not a deity to them?
#3 seals the deal. Only deities can be blasphemed.
So kind of you to extend the benefit of the doubt. Curious it doesn’t extend past your own religion.
I also wonder what the spiritual revelation was behind the slaughter of the Midianites…you remember them right? God said to Moses “Kill ‘em all…except for the virgin girls. Those you can keep.”
“…Tell me what You think about Your friends at the top
Who’d You think besides Yourself was the pick of the crop?
Buddha, was he ‘where its’ at’, is he where You are?
Could Mohammed move a mountain, or was that just PR?…”
–Judas Iscariot/Jesus Christ Superstar
The Midianites are mentioned in the Koran, also. Allah didn’t like them either. They must have been bad news.
Even the infant boys? Or did they have to be punished for the sins of the father? Didn’t Deuteronomy 24:16 have something to say about that?
Could be. Exodus 20:13, too, although neither refers specifically to Midianites.
It’s good to wonder Chap and I’m sure spiritual revelation is behind many things we don’t understand. I don’t trust your ability or mine to decifer or intrepret ancient things but I do trust the ancient Christian church to help me understand. That said, I don’t judge God or His motivations. Whatever His will. He doesn’t have anything to “prove” to me. It certainly isn’t all about my idea of fairness or justice. I hardly know my own heart, let alone the hearts of others.
And if Mohammed said God told him to have sex with a 9 year old?
I don’t know anything about that Chap, but I do not question my Lord Jesus Christ.
I’ll bet that type of attitude came in handy for Moses when he ordered his Army to slaughter infant boys, women and the elderly.
Don’t know about that. This life on this earth is just a small portion of our existance and eternity. It isn’t all there is…
And if they are devout Muslims, they are obliged by their religion to offer you the opportunity to submit to Islam or be killed.
And if you are a devout Christian, Virginia Patriot, you are required to abstain from eating shellfish and wearing clothes made of two materials.
You’re wrong.
Jesus fulfilled the law of Moses which removed the dietary and other restrictions in the Old Testament.
Jews are still bound by them because they reject the Messiah but Christians are not.
Does anyone claim that God told Mohammed to have sex with a 9 year old?
I thought that was Virginia Patriot’s implication above.
In any case, the age at which it was acceptable to have sex with a girl in the OT seems to be (from the numerous sources I have read) when the girl hits puberty. Which, of course, we know can and does occur as early as 8 years old. So I don’t think the Bible has a whole lot of upper moral hand here.
Puberty at 8? Whew, I guess they grow up fast out there in the desert, huh?
Get thee hence, Satan.
The islamofacists regularly murder nuns, priests, and do so for the sole purpose of killing a non-muslim. This depraved death cult masquerading as part of a religion must be destroyed completely. The most vocal and vicious leaders of this cult must share the fate of those they condemn. Yes they will be replaced by others, but it helps that they identify themselves so they can be culled effectively.
Chapoutier, LOL as if he knows anything about female physiology, tries to change the subject but if he would like to see the difference in religions, all he has to do is shout an identical insult about Christ in Rome and Mohammed in Mecca, but it will be necessary to go to Rome first. FYI in colonial times, menstruation began (menarche) typically about age 18. The change in age of menarche appears to be related to the early onset of greater weight/size of young girls with menarche starting within a few months of reaching about 105 lbs.