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Ok well, this is good news for me personally...

3 weeks ago i joined this group on facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Everybody-Draw-Mohammed-Day/121369914543425

Needless to say I submitted my own needlessly crass and offensive entry... Well, its the prinicpal of the matter isnt it? Your legally free to call my favourite relative or friend or me anything you want, but we must never draw Mohammed because YOU said so? I think not...

Anyway, lo and behold!

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/pakistan-bans-facebook-over-muhammad-cartoons/19483123?icid=main

"So far, more than 200 images -- most of them certain to offend Muslims -- have been uploaded to the page, The Pakistani group Islamic Lawyers Forum made a request to Lahore's High Court, asking it to order the government to block the "blasphemous" site. The court agreed; soon after the verdict was read, The Associated Press reported that members of the lawyers group were seen chanting, "Down with Facebook!" outside the courtroom"

I am most proud to say that one of the 200 images is one of my own creation!

The thing is, dont these guys get it? Surely they can see that by bannign stuff they just make it more newsworthy? The membership of said group was 15,000 when i joined a few weeks back. 30,000 last week, and since i read this story its up to 85,000.

Really, dont they get it? Its sort of like using a machete on people to prove how tolerant you are isnt it?

Oh dear Matty thats it for you I'm afraid a Fatwa has been called upon your Infidel ass and a bus load of screaming Pakistani Jihadists are en-route to teach you the meaning of tollerance via the use of several blunt objects and BO that would make a dung beetle blush.

Almost makes me wish I had a face book account!

Well...what did you expect from a intolerant "religion"

Isn't getting Facebook removed from Pakistan going to hurt the everyday moderates far more than the extremists who would shun it anyway?

What's the point in Pakistan having facebook anyway, when the average profile picture looks like this?:





I reckon they banned it because it has the word 'face' in the title.

squilverine wrote:Oh dear Matty thats it for you I'm afraid a Fatwa has been called upon your Infidel ass and a bus load of screaming Pakistani Jihadists are en-route to teach you the meaning of tollerance via the use of several blunt objects and BO that would make a dung beetle blush.

Almost makes me wish I had a face book account!

Bring it on, i shall drag many of them screaming into oblivion with me! ;D

I definitely shouldn't have been reading this thread when I was drinking, I pretty much spewed my drink laughing when I saw Albatross' comment.

A good start to the day.

If I didn't have a plethora of Muslim friends I definitely would join this group.

Facebook Twitter Twitter Facebook! Myspace! yaaaaayyy!

Hmmm wonder if anyone did him as a Space Marine.

I would have put him in bondage gear waving an American flag.

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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Hmmm wonder if anyone did him as a Chaos Space Marine.

No. Though I have seen Mohammed battling Aenarion, though. Mattyrm did you do that one?




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Fateweaver wrote:I would have put him in bondage gear waving an American flag.

That is going too far. You should give Mohammed some modicum of dignity and photoshop out the American flag.

How will they read their walls now?

Yeah. Have him waving the British flag instead.

I would'v drawn him with clogs...

There are people on there literally threatening people with death for drawing Muhammed at all. It makes me want to draw him just to piss those people off.

Trouble is, you also offend all of the reasonable people asking me nicely not to draw Muhammed.

I see no particular reason to want to offend the reasonable people, so I figure I'll just ignore the whole thing.

There are people on there literally threatening people with death for drawing Muhammed at all. It makes me want to draw him just to piss those people off.

Suicidal tendencies!

Trouble is, you also offend all of the reasonable people asking me nicely not to draw Muhammed.

I see no particular reason to want to offend the reasonable people, so I figure I'll just ignore the whole thing.

This is my stance as well.

On a more serious issue, why do people feel the need to mock the prophet? Now, this is not me trying to censor this kind of activity. As far as i'm concerned, nothing or nobody is above satire. But it seems to be a cheap shot, a band wagon that everyone is jumping on. For me, it's like beating Stephen Hawking in a wrestling match and bragging about it to your friends!
Is this really a case of people expressing enlightenment values, or are they missing the bigger picture. In the UK there are lots of laws passed that have stifled freedom of expression and I'm sure in the USA (I might be wrong) the patriot act has done something similar for values of freedom.
Any thoughts?

I do not see drawing Muhammed as mocking Muhammed himself, but as a way of mocking the idiots who make death threats in his name.

I mean, on a scale of sins, I'd put killing someone above drawing rude pictures.

Fifty wrote:I do not see drawing Muhammed as mocking Muhammed himself, but as a way of mocking the idiots who make death threats in his name.

I mean, on a scale of sins, I'd put killing someone above drawing rude pictures.

Technically it's a mockery of anyone who practices Islam, though how they take the insult is up to them. The tone of the images is the issue though, and the vast majority of images sent and ones suggested here are designed to be insulting.

Seeing as the Uk has banned the images from the Swedish and oprior Dutch cartoonists to avoid upseting Islamics (the only European government to formally go this far), is there a chance some PC fethwit might try imposing Facebook = bad dogmas over here?

Fifty wrote:
Trouble is, you also offend all of the reasonable people asking me nicely not to draw Muhammed.

Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Fifty wrote:
Trouble is, you also offend all of the reasonable people asking me nicely not to draw Muhammed.

Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Only if you're an insensitive jackass with no respect for the feelings or beliefs of others.

So you agree with me, then?

SlaveToDorkness wrote:So you agree with me, then?

Are you?

I am.

Fateweaver wrote:I am.

I knew you and slave were the same person!

Naw, he only wishes he were me.

I'm an insensitive prick, so sue me.

Im with Orlanth, well.. i feel a bit more strongly.

I am disgusted by my nation.

We were the only EU country to bow down over "The Jewel of Medina" and we constantly whimper and bend over backwards to assist in every way a disgustingly aggresive and militant Dogma.

The followers of Islam pose as a cringing minority that deserves and needs our help and protection, whilst simultenosuly attacking us from all sides, ranting and raving and threatning to cut peoples nuts off.

As far as i am concerned, we need to get the kid gloves off and stop letting these mother fethers make all the rules.

And im pleased as feth i contributed to Pakistans ridiculous over reaction. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword eh?

I am disgusted by my nation.

We all is.

The followers of Islam pose as a cringing minority that deserves and needs our help and protection, whilst simultenosuly attacking us from all sides, ranting and raving and threatning to cut peoples nuts off.

One in seven people on the planet is muslim and the ones attacking you from all sides don't live in your country. Get your head straight.

As far as i am concerned, we need to get the kid gloves off and stop letting these mother fethers make all the rules.

Which rules?

And im pleased as feth i contributed to Pakistans ridiculous over reaction. The pen is indeed mightier than the sword eh?

Yeah you're really striking out at pakistan. I'm sure the loss of revenue for facebook and the clamping down of freedoms in pakistan is really teaching the wacky pakistani government a lesson.

Do you read the things you type?

Only if you're an insensitive jackass with no respect for the feelings or beliefs of others.

Yes, because not worrying about someone getting butthurt about some doodlings someone else does makes me an insensitive jackass definitely. Believing that a drawing someone else did somehow destroys your religion is so very reasonable.