{"id":17417,"date":"2010-05-20T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=17417"},"modified":"2010-05-20T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:20:41","slug":"everybody-draw-mohammed-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/everybody-draw-mohammed-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day<\/a>,” as artists (and not-so-artists) draw pictures of the Prophet and post them online in order to demonstrate that unilateral calls by one religion to impose its moral and aesthetic will over believers and unbelievers alike will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

\"Mohammed<\/a>
Mohammed (after a fashion)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My entry is in this post (Mohammed’s the gent at the top of\u00a0 the stairs), and it’s based on the illuminated manuscript seen here<\/a> (and in much better detail here<\/a>).\u00a0 It’s a “17th century Ottoman copy of an early 14th century (Ilkhanate period) manuscript of Northwestern Iran or northern Iraq (the ‘Edinburgh codex’).”\u00a0 Representations of the Prophet<\/a> have by no means been universally forbidden during the history of Islam.<\/p>\n

(And\u00a0 for those Christians who choose to mock the religious mania of avoiding visually depicting Mohammed, the origin of the injunction is to protect against idolatry of such images — an idea found in the Ten Commandments (no “graven images”).\u00a0 Iconoclasm has a long tradition in Christianity, and recall how the Reformation saw the stripping (sometimes violent) of a variety of “Popish” religious imagery and icons and decor from Christian churches.)<\/p>\n

What EDMD isn’t (for me, at least) is an attempt to disrespect Islam, or even Mohammed.\u00a0 The point is not to say that Islam is awful, or Muslims are violent, or Mohammed was a false prophet; folks who have used the event to bash Islam are missing the point.\u00a0 It’s not even to slam Mohammed by drawing him (albeit poorly).\u00a0 I don’t anticipate worshiping my drawing, nor do I think it likely anyone else will.\u00a0 That point is, just as I don’t expect Muslims to, for example, get baptized, or refrain from eating fish on Fridays, or close their businesses on Sunday — because those aren’t their religious beliefs — I do not hold myself barred from Islamic religious Hadith <\/em>injunctions against depicting the Prophet in a drawing. It’s not meant as\u00a0 disrespect; it’s meant as a statement of personal freedom.<\/p>\n

So … hope this doesn’t drive anyone to a murderous frenzy.\u00a0 Don’t tread on me and I won’t tread on you.\u00a0 That’s sort of a negative Golden Rule, but it’s a serviceable one.\u00a0 Folks in both Islam and Christianity could do with remembering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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