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In reply to the discussion: On Draw Mohammed Day, don't forget: Drawing Jesus is just as offensive to devout Muslims too! [View all]braddy
(3,585 posts)15. Ask Salmon Rushdie if the death pronouncement is global and persistent
""There is a shrine in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery for Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh that says he was "Martyred in London, 3 August 1989. The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie." Mazeh's mother was invited to relocate to Iran, and the Islamic World Movement of Martyrs' Commemoration built his shrine in the cemetery that holds thousands of Iranian soldiers slain in the IranIraq War.[36] During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that "If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwā against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so. I am sure there are millions of Muslims who are ready to give their lives to defend our prophet's honour and we have to be ready to do anything for that."[46] James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation testified before the United States Congress that a "March 1989" [sic] explosion in Britain was a Hezbollah attempt to assassinate Rushdie ""
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On Draw Mohammed Day, don't forget: Drawing Jesus is just as offensive to devout Muslims too! [View all]
Poll_Blind
May 2012
OP
sky wizards there's that term the closed minded love to toss around to insult people
leftyohiolib
May 2012
#3
No theist anywhere would define God as an "invisible wizard that lives in the sky."
EvilAL
May 2012
#58
A Jesus drawing can be sold, and appreciated or mocked, a Mohammed drawing gets you murdered.
braddy
May 2012
#5
I agree with you, let's saturate the public sphere with Mohammad images, until they drop this death
braddy
May 2012
#10
Psst: The same Muslims who'd kill you for drawing Mohammed would kill you anyway.
Poll_Blind
May 2012
#7
a freak killing someone is different from a formally issued, global, lifetime kill order
braddy
May 2012
#8
The very artist that created the drawing "day" is in hiding now, and is changing her identity
braddy
May 2012
#22
She is in fear for her life, and was warned by the FBI because of Muslims, not cartoonists
braddy
May 2012
#33
Since this is the THIRD annual Draw Mohammed Day, that does mean it's been years
CrawlingChaos
May 2012
#45
It has encompassed two years, I'll split the difference with you, but she hides from Islam.
braddy
May 2012
#49
Judaism is tiny, and has a race element, what race is Islam?, and who is the girl afraid of?
braddy
May 2012
#56
Stupid "Why are you doing that instead of this other important thing?" false dilemma
Silent3
May 2012
#28