Remove ’Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’ from Facebook

Why should your religion curtail my right to draw a picture of a bearded man and call him Mohammad? If you would like to discuss mutual respect, first please learn to accept that not everyone subscribes to your beliefs, thus not everyone is going to bend over backwards to accommodate you.

Draw Mohammad day has not incited any violence, it is a peaceful protest against your religions attempt to oppress people. It is the muslim community that resorts to violence in response, such as the recent muslim attack on Lars Vilks. Obviously not all muslims are violent people, but instead of going ape shit over a stupid picture, why not instead bring attention to the muslim communities around the world that are oppressed and marginalized by the west/crazy leaders. Bring attention to how poorly educated some muslim countries are and how lack of education allows a country to become a breeding ground for intolerance and violence.

Originally Posted by murtaza

People from all religions and races should refrain from exercising free speech in defamatory hate statements, hate crimes and incitement to violence. Mutual respect for each others beliefs and sanctity of all religions should be kept intact on all social forums to ensure we bridge gaps between all men, instead of aggravating relations more. Genuine efforts towards removing such communities, be they against any religion, is our duty as responsible individuals. Ideas for better, responsible regulation of content over facebook and other social networks would be greatly appreciated.

Murtaza,

Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion but as long as you are going to equate satire or criticism with hate crimes you will get no respect from me. If you really want to bridge gaps and reduce aggravation then stop trying to tell other people how to live their lives. Nobody is advocating defacing your home or mosque. Nobody is demeaning your race or ethnicity. Nobody really gives a shit about your religion, either, as long as you keep it to yourself. They are merely exercising their freedom of expression in a completely harmless manner. If you don't like it, don't look.

Peace.

Originally Posted by murtaza

The Forum ’Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’ on facebook is against moral values and mutual respect for all cultures.

No it's not. I'm allowed to draw a picture of anything I want and call it anything I want. I don't care if it offends you. At all.

Originally Posted by murtaza

This forum contains graffiti including sexual images, defamatory slogans and images containing extreme gore depicting the Prophet of Islam.

So? Nobody is forcing you to look at it. You choose to view it and then you choose to be offended by it. If your god is so powerful why not just wait for him to judge us? Because your god, your religion, and your prophet is a joke.

Originally Posted by murtaza

Despite over 20000 reports against this group as hate speech/racism, facebook has not removed this group during the past month.

Good. It's good to see companies standing up for what is right rather than buckling to the pressure of a few stone age nut-jobs that get angry over anything that might show how ridiculous their beliefs are.

Originally Posted by murtaza

it is also a breach of 3 different laws within the United States that restrict freedom of Speech w.r.t. rights of individuals regarding ethnicity, race and religion. Facebook qualifies for a lawsuit if it does not remove this group before the 20th of may 2010, by US law.

I really doubt that. In the US the right to freedom of speech trumps ALL else. The internet is completely free domain however, and anyone can say anything they want here.

Originally Posted by murtaza

People from all religions and races should refrain from exercising free speech in defamatory hate statements, hate crimes and incitement to violence.

Like when Muslims call for the bombing of the western world? The killing of infidels? Shut the fuck up you hypocrite.

Originally Posted by murtaza

Mutual respect for each others beliefs and sanctity of all religions should be kept intact on all social forums to ensure we bridge gaps between all men, instead of aggravating relations more.

I respect no religion at all but the only one that I openly despise is Islam. Anything to aggravate the Islamic world and inch them one step closer to their own inevitable demise is preferable to me.

Originally Posted by Rationella

There was another thread at this forum regarding the banning of face-covering veils in Belgium. In that forum the right to freedom of expression didn't get nearly the support that it seems to be getting here in this thread. Hypocritical attitudes are evident on both sides.

The burqua and stick figures are very different, islamics threaten and do violence to people who
draw figures of their 'precious'. It is based on an interpretation and as you have said they have a great history of art.
There are contemporary paintings of Mo, so the interpretation must be wrong
They are nuts and it is a question my freedom of rights, there is a creeping influence to protect those islamic rights.
Blasphemey laws are laws based on fairy tales and have no reason for being. A way to fight them is through
freedom of expression. So since it is only the extreme islamics believe it is bad to draw Old Mo,
how is it offensive to the moderates? The way it is being done, really, stick figures, sorry they are so, so, stick figureish
and inoffensive. It is laughable that it even offends anyone, it really stretches the term "offended".
I am offended thoses savages blew up buddhist statues that predated their primitive set of religious values by a millenium.

The burqua issue is barely about freedom of expression, that people want to wear a sack over their head willingly, I
find very diffcult to believe. Again the burqua is an interpertation of islamic laws (puke).
Culturally speaking women are forced to wear them in those friggin' antique societies.
Why, because the islamic men are such savages that when a woman dares show too much, these pussy islamics
rape those women, and then blame the woman. Wearing the sack isn't freedom of expression, it is done through
fear. It is a weapon used by these savages to ensure their girls are anonymous slaves, quiet and invisible.
MOdern societies does not need burquas, they are as much a symbol of repression as burning crosses, barbed wire,
whips and handcuffs.

[QUOTE=Rationella;12747]Ever watch any programs about the use of whips and handcuffs in sexual play? Some people find it liberating. Burning a cross is a symbol of repression to some, a symbol of freedom for someone else. Barbed wire is mighty helpful on farmland when you want to protect cattle. Not every Muslim woman is forced to wear a veil. They do wear them willingly for some religious concept I don't accept as valid, but I have no right to tell another woman what she must belief or how she must behave (as long as she's not abusing another person/child).
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Whoo hoo Rationella, okay so these were not stellar examples, never heard of a good burning cross, and I just picture the barbed wire they display at the holocaust displays in Germany, or the Amnesty International symbol.
BTW, my handcuffs are fake leopard fur lined, and I like a good stiff horse crop.

I still believe it is a symbol of islamic repression, mutilation, repressive coverings, a horrible death for the girl who shows an ankle and gets raped. Why, because it is an archaic savage culture and religion that has no place in the modern world. The burqua is one of its worst symbols of their repression. We have no right to dictate, but society
does, and society does not generally like masked individuals. even the good masked guys in the comics are called anti-heros.

it should be her choice

Why should it?

Nobody is telling her what she can wear. The issue is what she can not wear and where.

I want to walk around with my dick hanging out sometimes, but ya know what?-SOCIETY TAKES ISSUE.

If security weren't an issue I'd understand, but it is and has always been. It has been demonstrated time and time again that people are more inclined to criiminal activity when they're free to do so anonymously.