Draw Mohammed day

[Job]

If no-one can draw him how do we know what he looks like?

 

[Dukat]

If no-one can draw him how do we know what he looks like?

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[pez]

we don't know what jesus or the easter bunny looks like but thats never stopped anyone

 

[Chronictank]

wow, and i thought the tone couldn't get any lower..

 

[Shagrat]

haha Chronic, you've been here since 2004, you should know the place by now

 

[fettoken]

 

[Shagrat]

he's look like he's been on my nan's homebrew

 

[eksdee]

 

[old.Tohtori]

The whole draw mohammed thing is silly though.

Ok ok, i get it, freedom fo speech, notion noted.

But...as there's always a but...it's kinda like this;

You're free to go into a biker bar and call everyone there a "leather wearing wanker", but...

It's just...why stir the pot?

 

[fettoken]

Why not?

 

[aika]

The whole draw mohammed thing is silly though.

Ok ok, i get it, freedom fo speech, notion noted.

But...as there's always a but...it's kinda like this;

You're free to go into a biker bar and call everyone there a "leather wearing wanker", but...

It's just...why stir the pot?

If you say the Earth is round in 1400's you're gonna get on a stake, why stir the pot?

nice mentality there, surrender more please.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah, ofcourse, if we don't do it we're surrendering. Bullcrap.

This isn't the same as some comic artist drawing mohammed on a newspaper, i can respect that right, but this is just going out to cause more trouble.

Oh and fett; why not is not an answer to why.

What's the gain?
What's the purpose?
Why is this anything except looking for trouble?

 

[aika]

just making a point, that is all.
Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.

 

[old.Tohtori]

just making a point, that is all.
Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.

Sometimes compromises are needed, sometimes you got to stand ground and sometimes you need to accept that some things are the way they are.

100% belief in one of the tree very rarely ends well 100% of time.

 

[Thorwyn]

There´s a difference between freedom of speech and procovation. Sometimes, I can´t help but think that certain people are using the freedom of speech as some kind of universal weapon against anything, just to excercise their rights and provoke the obvious reaction. And that´s just as cheap, naive and uneducated as telling people that they can´t draw a picture of Muhammad.

Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.

Did you ever think about the fact that freedom of speech, democracy and our entire way of living is nothing else but a huge compromise?

 

[Raven]

Who gives a fuck if it upsets a bunch of cave dwellers, they need to get some perspective tbfh.

Oh noes, you drew some rude pictures of the sky fairy! Now you must die in a fire for pointing out that we are just a bunch of fucking loons.

 

[Job]

why can't they compromise?
We cannot possibly put up with people blackmailing us into running our lives on their terms.

 

[Raven]

Because they are primitive. They are as socially mature as we (the west) were 600 years ago.

 

[Ch3tan]

What Thorwyn said, the people that have done the images based simply on the fact they know it will cause upset and controversy are trolls and nothing more. There is a difference between humour and bullying.

 

[CorNokZ]

Denmark won this one years ago

 

[fettoken]

Denmark won this one years ago

You mean Sweden..

 

[ECA]

Here are my efforts

Spoiler

 

[aika]

Who gives a fuck if it upsets a bunch of cave dwellers, they need to get some perspective tbfh.

Oh noes, you drew some rude pictures of the sky fairy! Now you must die in a fire for pointing out that we are just a bunch of fucking loons.

Couldnt agree more, fuck them and their over-reacting at pictures.

 

[soze]

I will not pretend to know the religion inside out. But if it states drawing picture of the guy is against their belief then why upset them and their religion for a cheap laugh. You gain nothing by doing it but you do genuinely upset them.

I agree that starting fires and wanting to kill people over it is pathetic but so is doing it in the first place. And people that claim freedom of speech forget that most civilised countries have clauses that exclude inciting racial hatred.

 

[ECA]

I will not pretend to know the religion inside out. But if it states drawing picture of the guy is against their belief then why upset them and their religion for a cheap laugh. You gain nothing by doing it but you do genuinely upset them.

I agree that starting fires and wanting to kill people over it is pathetic but so is doing it in the first place. And people that claim freedom of speech forget that most civilised countries have clauses that exclude inciting racial hatred.

Nothing will stop me mocking people who believe in a mystical sky god.

 

[soze]

Nothing will stop me mocking people who believe in a mystical sky god.

Mocking people just because they are different is a slippery slope where is your line?

I do not believe in god but i would never presume that other people are wrong because they do.

 

[ECA]

Mocking people just because they are different is a slippery slope where is your line?

I'm not mocking someone because they are different.
There is a huge difference and getting into god/nogod/maybegod arguments on the interwebs is stupid.

Freedom of speech, freedom of religion - all fine by me.

 

[Chronictank]

Mocking people just because they are different is a slippery slope where is your line?
.

Its pretty easy, he is hiding behind his computer screen so is free to mock all and sundry with little to no consequence.
Much like many members here it provides a forum for them to be as immature and petty as they like as it's not so easy to be like that irl

Generally it is best to just ignore them until they get bored and find something else 'controversial' or simply something that the daily mail has told them is bad

 

[Cerb]

Like most things there just needs to be a happy medium somewhere in between. Do I believe that it will be found? Unlikely.