Why We Make Fun of Muslims

Draw Mohammed Day was a few weeks ago, but it brought up an interesting controversy amongst those of us here in Western civilization as to why we simply don't respect the wishes of the muslims and not depict Mohammed in drawings.

The answer is simple: To make a point and that point is, death threats and violence will not intimidate us. If we were to simply stop drawing pictures and cartoons, they'd realize that their violent protesting causes us to react in their favor and they'll do it more. And it leads to a slippery slope. If we give in to their demands and stop drawing pictures, then they'll get violent when we offend them in some other way. And this can continue until in our fear of retribution or fear of offense, we inadvertently strip away the right to freedom of speech.

No.

The more they protest, the more violence and hate they spew, the more we will lampoon their backwards religion and the more silly pictures of Mohammed we'll draw. Is it childish? Perhaps, but consider this: When a child starts screaming in a grocery store because his mother didn't buy him cookies, is she going to buy him cookies? Of course not! She'll tell him to shut up and threaten him with more punishment if he doesn't behave. Its the same concept here. Rather than rewarding their bad behavior, we punish them by continuing to do that which they are throwing a tantrum about.

Ironically, if they want us to stop drawing pictures of Mohammed, if they want us to stop making fun of their religion, then they need to stop reacting so violently to criticism.

Furthermore, this simply goes to illustrate how ridiculous Islam is. Violence over a cartoon? Over a drawing of Mohammed? Banning Facebook and Youtube because these sites were used to dare to criticize Islam? Islam isn't special. Islam, like any other religion, has NO right to try to squash freedom of speech. If they don't like it, tough. No religion is immune to criticism. No religion may deny free speech.

So lets continue to lampoon Islam until they figure it out. Lets teach them how to be adults. If they want us to stop treating them like kids, if they want us to take them seriously, maybe they should learn to be adults and learn to be civil. Maybe once they realize that violence is not the answer to the world's problems, the negative attention directed to Islam would turn elsewhere.

I don't see this happening any time soon though.

J Kuhl Signing Off