May 20: First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day

In response to the Islamic mau-mauing of Comedy Central over the Mohammed-the-Bear incident in South Park, a new viral initiative has been launched on the web:


(Click the image to see the full-sized poster, which includes the other candidates for the “real” image of Mohammed.)

For us, the viral chain of transmission began with Dan Savage, then passed through Michael Moynihan at Reason Magazine and Allahpundit at Hot Air.

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I’ll have to put on my thinking cap and try to come up with another Mo-Image to submit. In the meantime, I contributed a few of them a while back, including:


Which was a small component of a much larger project:
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It’s also important in this context to remember Lars Vilks, the Modoggie Man, who is possibly the most prolific and inventive creator of images that offend the followers of the prophet. Besides his drawings of “The Prophet as a Roundabout Dog”, Mr. Vilks has contributed “The Prophet as a Shoe”:


Not to mention:


Readers with artistic talent (and those who can’t even draw a straight line with AutoCAD) should dust off the old #2 pencil and get ready for May 20.


Hat tip: Frontinus.