If you may recall in 2006 the Muslim community world over was in uproar over a few sets of controversial cartoons published in the Danish Newspaper on Prophet Muhammed [PBUH] it resulted in large scale riots in many cities. The journalists from Jyllands Posten remained under a serious threat and the Muslims failed to see the pun in their attempt to ridicule their prophet. The argument even then, freedom of speech does not mean that you irk and irritate a religion under the garb of freedom of expression.
The Idea to make funny cartoons of Prophet Muhammed [PBUH] came from a Seattle Cartoonist Molly Norris who thought of this campaign in reaction to Comedy Central’s decision to censor an episode of South Park with depictions of Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] last week, to say in an interview to a radio show in Seattle that “as a cartoonist, I just felt so much passion about what had happened.. it’s a cartoonist’s job to be non-PC.”
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