Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
The Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (German: Malt-alle-Mohammed-Tag ), which took place on May 20, 2010 , was a protest action by many Internet communities against Islamists who threatened violence against people trying to portray the Islamic prophet Mohammed .
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Images of Mohammed are forbidden in Islam by some hadith - Islamic texts - which generally prohibit the depiction of living creatures, but the Koran does not expressly forbid this. Most Sunnis believe that images of all prophets in Islam should be forbidden and are particularly averse to images of Muhammad. The main concern is that images can lead to idolatry (" idolatry "). In Shi'aism, however , images of Mohammed are quite widespread today, although Shia scholars have historically been against such images. In the 21st century there were repeated conflicts between Islamists and Western media that showed images of Muhammad, such as the Muhammad cartoons in a Danish daily newspaper in 2005.
The American animation series South Park on the station Comedy Central dealt in two episodes in 2010 with the topic of censorship in general and with the prohibition of the representation of Muhammad in Islam in particular, episodes 200 and 201 . Radical Islamists issued death threats against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in April 2010 if they broadcast episodes 201, and 200 retrospectively. The death threat was published on the Internet before the episodes were broadcast. The website there read: “ We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them ”(translated: We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they are probably because of the airing of this show like Theo Van Gogh. This is not a threat but a warning of the reality that is likely to happen to them ). Van Gogh was shot by a radical Islamist after his short film Submission . Because of these death threats, the 200th anniversary episode was withdrawn after its uncensored first broadcast, not repeated on television and not published on the Internet. Episode 201 was only broadcast censored and initially not published on the Internet.
This censorship due to the death threats inspired the Seattle comic book author Molly Norris to create a drawing on the Internet that served as a call for each Internet user to create and publish another drawing of Muhammad. Norris said that Islamist terrorists would not be able to murder anyone who would draw a picture of Mohammed and called for a boycott with their picture . Within a week, Norris' idea was widely spread on Facebook , supported by numerous bloggers and also picked up by major US newspapers. A short time later, a large number of Facebook users declared May 20 to be Everybody Draw Mohammed Day , from which Norris, however, distances himself.
In response, the Pakistani government blocked Facebook, YouTube , Flickr and Wikipedia on May 19 .
After the radical Islamic preacher Anwar al-Awlaki published a fatwa against Norris in the online magazine Inspire at the beginning of July 2010 , in which he indirectly called for her death, she was placed under the protection of the FBI , on whose advice she changed her name in September 2010 and assumed a new identity .
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- ↑ a b Pakistan cuts Facebook because of the Mohammed painting competition . Spiegel Online netzwelt
- ^ John L. Esposito : What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam . 2011 p. 14; on the hadith see Sahih al-Bukhari , Hadith: 7.834, 7.838, 7.840, 7.844, 7.846
- ^ Göran Larsson: Muslims and the New Media . Ashgate, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-2750-6 , p. 51.
- ↑ a b Devotion in pictures: Muslim popular iconography - The prophet Muhammad , University of Bergen
- ^ Charles Le Gai Eaton: Islam and the destiny of man . State University of New York Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-88706-161-5 , p. 207.
- ↑ dailycontributor.com: Extremist Site Warns "South Park" Creators Over Mohammed Depiction
- ↑ fastcompany.com: Pakistan Blocks Blasphemic YouTube and Wikipedia as Facebook Considers Solutions
- ↑ James Gordon Meek, Katie Nelson: Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Puts 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' cartoonist Molly Norris on Execution Hitlist . NYDailyNews.com, Jul 11, 2010; Retrieved September 21, 2010.
- ^ Mark D. Fefer: On the Advice of the FBI, cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears from View . ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2010 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Seattle Weekly , September 15, 2010; Retrieved September 21, 2010.
- ↑ Molly Norris no longer exists . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 21, 2010.
