Quote of the (Everybody Draw Mohammed) Day
Posted By Russ Emerson on May 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I’m bored with death threats. And, as far as I’m concerned, if that’s your opening conversational gambit, then any obligation on my part to “cultural sensitivity” and “mutual respect” is over. The only way to stop this madness destroying our liberties is (as Ayaan Hirsi Ali puts it) to spread the risk. Everybody Draws Mohammed Day does just that.
I usually try to be polite. I try not to be needlessly offensive. But there comes a time when even nice guys have to throw down the gauntlet and refuse to give up the right to be offensive.
As blogger Zombie notes, “we don’t take kindly to bullshit medieval religious oppression in these parts.”
I am not a Muslim, nor will I ever be. I refuse to live by their rules. I will say what I want, when I want, how I want, and if that happens to be less than respectful towards the muslim prophet — or even the muslim god — then so be it. I am not and will not be bound by their rules.
A concise summary from Michelle Malkin:
“I will not submit.”
I don’t know if I can improve on it, so I’ll just repeat part of what I said in “Stand, Men of the West” back in 2006 during the original Danish cartoon uproar:
We are in the midst of an ongoing struggle, culture against culture, and there is no guarantee of victory. But fight we must, in big ways and small. Some of us can don a uniform; many of us have done so in the past. Most do other things, making their own individual stands right where they are, not surrendering to the ideologies of fear or tolerance of evil, but by living the lives of free men and women and exercising dearly held freedoms.
Including the freedom of speech.
In this, I don’t care how you vote, nor does it matter what church you attend, or not. I don’t care whether you’re red state or blue, pink or green. If you value your freedom to make choices, to live your life as you see fit, respecting the rights of others, even though you disagree on some or many things… if you will not surrender your fundamental liberties merely to save your own skin, and will not submit to dhimmitude, then stand.
And to those of you who would tolerate the intolerable, who fear to give offense rather than speak the truth, who would strike a bargain with evil to save your miserable skins: begone. We have no use for you.
Today is, of course, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. Sadly, I have no talent for drawing… here’s the evidence.
Over at Pirate’s Cove, some links to others discussing today’s event.
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