Everyone Draw Mohammed Day is today.

'Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day' was started on May 20th, 2010 by Molly Norris, as a response to threats against the creators of a South Park episode depicting Mohammed, which was then censored by Comedy Central. The idea was to get enough people to draw Mohammed where action against these people would be untenable.

Unfortunately, Molly Norris is now in hiding due to credible threats to her safety by Muslim extremists.

It is because of the insane reactions to cartoons by some Muslim extremists that we must continue to draw them and not be intimidated into self-censorship because of religious oppression. It's one thing for Muslims to censor themselves, but yet another to not only try to censor the world but to follow it up with threats of bodily harm or death.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was almost killed by a Muslim extremist for just such a cartoon, but he had a safe-room and was able to escape in time. Others who expressed their views about Mohammed or Islam weren't so lucky, such as filmmaker Theo Van Gogh who was shot multiple times and had a Jihadi manifesto stabbed through his chest in the streets of Holland for his movie, 'Submission'. Submission is the true meaning of the word, 'Islam', not peace, and that submission is apparently intended for everyone, like it or not. Submission disguised as 'peace' is the subject of my own cartoon complete with a rendition of Mohammed himself.




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