{"id":7114,"date":"2015-06-03T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/diplomad-on-drawing-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:37:05","slug":"diplomad-on-drawing-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/diplomad-on-drawing-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomad on Drawing Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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My view on holding "Draw Mohammed" contests?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure. Why not?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can have a Broadway play that mocks Mormons<\/a>, an "artistic" exhibition called "Piss Christ<\/a>," and any number of other art, including paintings, literature, and movies criticizing or mocking Judeo-Christian symbols and values (Monty Python<\/a>, anybody?) why should Muslims be exempt from criticism or mockery? Is Islam not a religion like the others as its followers claim<\/a>? If we can't have depictions of Mohammed, do we need to destroy ancient Mughal art which, of course, has depictions of Mohammed? ISIS would respond, yes, but this is America; ISIS doesn't rule here, not yet anyways. <\/span><\/p>\n

I thought the organizers of the Phoenix contest hit exactly the right themes. As I have written before<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n

For liberals, the second amendment is a big embarrassment. They cannot accept that private ownership of firearms is in there with the rights to assembly, speech, religion, etc., as a crucial limit on the power of the government over the individual.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first and second amendments to the Constitution are the crown jewels of the Bill of Rights. The organizers of the Phoenix contest were spot on linking the two, and highlighting the role of the second amendment in protecting all our freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

I look forward to more "Draw Mohammed" events.<\/span><\/p>\n

A big well done to the folks in Phoenix.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Sharia\"<\/a>My view in a few words.  Other things being equal, one should not mock, deride, or engage in any sort of unprovoked verbal or pictorial assault on people or the beliefs they cherish.  So if Muslims were as benign as Christians or Buddhists, I would object on moral grounds to the depiction and mockery of the man Muslims call the Prophet despite the legality of so doing.  But things are not equal<\/em>.  Radical Islam is the main threat to civilized values in the world today.  Deny that, and you are delusional as Sam Harris says<\/a>.  The radicals are testing us and provoking us.  We must respond with mockery and derision at a bare minimum.  The 'Use it or lose it' principle applies not only to one's body, but to one's rights as well.  For the defense of liberty, the enemies of rights must be in our sights, figuratively at least, and this includes radical Islam's leftist enablers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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