May 2010

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If you’re not familiar with May 20th, Everybody Draw Mohammed day, check the  information below for some background.

Jon Stewart’s Breakdown of the Situation

Bill Maher Video

Excerpt: “When South Park got threatened last week by Islamists incensed at their depiction of Mohammed, it served– or should serve– as a reminder that our culture isn’t just different than one that makes death threats to cartoonists: it’s better.”

Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks

“The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.

There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

Our capitulations in the face of these threats have had what is often called “a chilling effect” on our exercise of free speech. “

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