Anyone participate in Draw Mohammad Day?

[2003TIDE]

I'm surprise this hasn't made it on here yet.

Link

I think it is kinda ridiculous that for centuries there have been artistic depictions of Mohammad and for some reason in the past 5 years it has become unacceptable.

Anyway Pakistan has blocked Facebook and Youtube at this point......

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

I was going to but the good ole religion of peace threatened to kill me if I did.

 

[It's On A Slab]

 

[DzynKingRTR]

it seems as though there was a "mysterious glitch".


FOXNews.com - 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' Page Briefly Vanishes Due to Facebook Glitch

 

[It's On A Slab]

 

[It's On A Slab]

 

[rizolltizide]

 

[cbi1972]

 

[Tidewater]

touché.
He was the greatest...

 

[dWarriors88]

 

[ValuJet]

^^ This ^^

 

[KrAzY3]

Yes, and Facebook was nice enough to send me this notice:

"Hello,

You uploaded a photo that violates our Terms of Use, and this photo has been removed. Facebook does not allow photos that attack an individual or group, or that contain nudity, drug use, violence, or other violations of the Terms of Use. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children who use the site.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at Help Center | Facebook.

The Facebook Team"

It was a stick figure...

I suppose I should be proud though, my site was banned in Pakistan long before Facebook was (too bad I didn't realize Daryl Cagle and Michelle Malkin linked to it until long after the fact).

Here's my personal favorite (wish I had enough talent/patience to make something like this):

 

[dayhiker]

That's hilarious. I assume that's what the REAL 72 virgins actually look like?

 

[It's On A Slab]

 

[It's On A Slab]

Yes, and Facebook was nice enough to send me this notice:

"Hello,

You uploaded a photo that violates our Terms of Use, and this photo has been removed. Facebook does not allow photos that attack an individual or group, or that contain nudity, drug use, violence, or other violations of the Terms of Use. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children who use the site.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at Help Center | Facebook.

The Facebook Team"

It was a stick figure...

I suppose I should be proud though, my site was banned in Pakistan long before Facebook was (too bad I didn't realize Daryl Cagle and Michelle Malkin linked to it until long after the fact).

Here's my personal favorite (wish I had enough talent/patience to make something like this):

Looks like FB took down the original group. Another one's up today.

I'm hard on all religions, especially Christianity...being that it's the dominant one in these parts. But these horse's rears need their noses thumbed. And the funny thing.....the more they complain about it, the more brazen we will become.

I can't see FB winning this war. People will keep opening up new Mohammed sites. One thing the crybabies need to understand, once you get the cyberspace community angry....particularly the hacker community.....all sorts of mayhem will ensue.

If I get one of these emails like you received, I'll probably close down my account there today. I won't be parcel to such censorship. All religions are mocked on Facebook. Why should Islam be any different?

 

[rizolltizide]

Looks like FB took down the original group. Another one's up today.

I'm hard on all religions, especially Christianity...being that it's the dominant one in these parts. But these horse's rears need their noses thumbed. And the funny thing.....the more they complain about it, the more brazen we will become.

I can't see FB winning this war. People will keep opening up new Mohammed sites. One thing the crybabies need to understand, once you get the cyberspace community angry....particularly the hacker community.....all sorts of mayhem will ensue.

If I get one of these emails like you received, I'll probably close down my account there today. I won't be parcel to such censorship. All religions are mocked on Facebook. Why should Islam be any different?

You should really be more like me, Slab. I endeavor to end worldwide persecution.

 

[KrAzY3]

I can't see FB winning this war. People will keep opening up new Mohammed sites. One thing the crybabies need to understand, once you get the cyberspace community angry....particularly the hacker community.....all sorts of mayhem will ensue.

The sad thing is I'm not completely sure that's the case. I have to go back to the "cartoon jihad" a few years ago because that's really the root of all of this.

I was very apathetic in my involvement. I never had any real graphic skills and my web site skills are straight out of 1999, yet through a simple stick figure and basically a single link I was dragged into the heart of the cyber aspect of the cartoon jihad a few years back. I was burned out on the internet at the time and didn't fully realize this had happened until quite a while later. As it turns out, the final wave of trying to crush the websites taking a stand (after the blog hosts cracked down and the Turkish hackers took their shot) was official involvement by the government of Pakistan to ban these sites.

I had to go on google just to find the other sites mine was banned with.
It goes without saying that these links will contain controversial material!:
drawmohammed.com - Still there, but was hacked a long time ago and remains in that state.
drawmohammad.com - Gone
http://www.nordish.net/blog/ - Gone
http://drawmohammedweek.blogspot.com/ - Still there, even updated recently
http://www.mohammeddrawings.com/ - Gone
Free Speech? - Banned In Pakistan before it was cool! - Still there, still crappy
dragonkeypress.com - Seems to have been removed
Jesus and Mo - Still there, still active.
Mohammed Image Archive - Still there
http://www.dumbreligion.com/ - Gone
http://www.mohammedbomb.com/ - Gone
http://www.drawchrist.com/ - Gone

You might feel icky going there, but here's Michelle Malkin's post about this issue with links to the sites and the documentation of Pakistan banning us:
Michelle Malkin

Now, that's a horrible ratio. I see only 4 of the 12 sites as being alive. Mind you, this is a rather pathetic collection of sites to begin with. To go further in depth, these sites were attacked by a group of Turkish hackers (hurray for making a site in notepad!) and it was this group that apparently turned over the list to the Pakistani government.

Clearly, some of the same forces are at work here and what do we see? We see pages vanishing and people getting hit with TOS violations. Between the sites (Facebook), the hackers and the governments, sites like these are alarmingly easy to erase from the internet.

It's sad but this is a fight that we are losing because the other site cares more about the issue. I was part of that, I wasn't very highly motivated, I just wanted to toss my support behind the poor artists now living in panic rooms and having people invade their homes. The other side has been highly motivated and we're losing... but what we are losing is a lot bigger than just the right to draw pictures...

I actually stopped making this post when I was almost done and made a much more comprehensive post on my blog. You may view it here:
Draw Mohammed! Free Speech - A War the West is Losing | The Asylum