Everybody Draw Mohammed Day! updated: Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane blasphemes Mohammed

I realize it’s not “Everybody Photoshop Mohammed Day” but this’ll have to do.  The bomb head is by and for Kurt Westergaard and the bear suit is in homage to South Park.

I understand that many Muslims feel it is blasphemous to have an image of Mohammed.  (Though that wasn’t always the prevailing view.)  Not only am I endowed by my creator with certain inalienable rights including freedom of speech, I AM NOT MUSLIM AND I AM NOT OBLIGED TO OBEY ISLAMIC LAW.  And I will not obey it, now or ever.

Allah is not God and Mohammed is a false prophet.

I’ll be adding new links and quotes to this post over the course of the day.

Mark Steyn:

I’m bored with death threats. And, as far as I’m concerned, if that’s your opening conversational gambit, then any obligation on my part to “cultural sensitivity” and “mutual respect” is over. The only way to stop this madness destroying our liberties is (as Ayaan Hirsi Ali puts it) to spread the risk. Everybody Draws Mohammed Day does just that.

Some great quotes at Hot Air on this topic, including:

And at the heart of the liberal project is ultimately a recognition that individuals, for no other reason than that they exist, have rights to continue to exist. Embedded in all that is the right to expression. No one has a right to an audience or even to a sympathetic hearing, much less an engaged audience. But no one should be beaten or killed or imprisoned simply for speaking their mind or praying to one god as opposed to the other or none at all or getting on with the small business of living their life in peaceful fashion. If we cannot or will not defend that principle with a full throat, then we deserve to choke on whatever jihadists of all stripes can force down our throats.

Nick from Gay Patriot at his offsite EDMD contribution on the issue of mightn’t EDMD radicalize formerly moderate Muslims:

I’m a huge pro-life dude. I’m big anti-abortion. But no level of mockery in this belief, no level of argument, no level of demeaning invective, hell, no level of actual abortions would ever turn me into Scott Roeder. There is no way of insulting anything I believe, even the most ardent of my beliefs that would lead me to murder simply for voicing them. Oh, but if there ever were a way of insulting me so greatly, and I were, for example, to murder an abortinist, it wouldn’t be the fault of pro-life demonstrators. It wouldn’t even be the fault of George Tiller himself. Point being: there is no level of words or harmless deeds that justifies murder. Everybody Draw Muhammed Day is about that point, and that point only from my perspective.

Is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day a good idea?  Take the poll.

LAST UPDATE OF THE DAY: Iowahawk has the EDMD post to end all EDMD posts, including the news that Seth MacFarlane plans to blaspheme Mohammed in an upcoming Family Guy episode:

Fourth, all this ostentatious caterwauling about “free speech” and “preserving Enlightenment values” seem to me to be nothing but a cheap excuse for a few low-brow jokesters to engage in juvenile humor. For example, ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane, whom I understand is planning an upcoming episode of the popular infidel TV cartoon in which Stewie and Griffin family dog Brian take turns anally raping Islam’s holy prophet (PBUH) while singing show tunes. “After slamming Jesus and Christians countless times, I would qualify as the biggest hypocritical p**** in Hollywood if I didn’t give that psychotic medieval child molester the vigorous cartoon anal raping which he so richly deserves,” MacFarlane has reportedly said.

Prose can be a work of art, too. Very well played, Iowahawk.

Also celebrating free speech: Snapped Shot, Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, Confederate Yankee, The Jawa Report, Urban Infidel, Zomblog, TigerHawk, Because No One Asked, Wizbang, Everybody Draw Mohammed Blog, IMAO, Jihadwatch, more at Jihadwatch, Amy Alkon, Gateway Pundit, Right Wing News, Jackbooted Stormtrooper, Colorado Publius, Moonbattery, Michelle Malkin, GM.