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MAy be but if it is true then PTA is full of jerks. Don't they know how search engines work?
PTA is just following orders.
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Breaking news on TV Channels that the culprit behind the heinous crime of making cartoon images of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) has publicly apologized to the Muslim world, claiming that it wasn't his idea in the first place.
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can't he delete it himself...????
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Cartoonist Molly Norris disavows 'draw Mohammed day'
AN AMERICAN cartoonist whose work inspired the controversial "Everybody Draw Mohammed Page" on Facebook has condemned the effort and issued an apology to Muslims.
Molly Norris, of Seattle, drew a cartoon in April to protest the decision by the US television channel Comedy Central to cancel an episode of the popular show South Park over its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit.
In her cartoon, Norris satirically proposed May 20 as an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day".
An "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page quickly turned up on Facebook but Norris, writing on her website at mollynorris.com, said she had nothing to do with it.
"I did NOT 'declare' May 20 to be "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," she said, adding that her idea was satire but "was taken seriously, hijacked and made viral".
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"I never started a Facebook page; I never set up any place for people to send drawings to and I never received any drawings," she said.
"The vitriol this 'day' has brought out, of people who only want to draw obscene images, is offensive to Muslims who did nothing to endanger our right to expression in the first place," she said.
"I apologise to people of Muslim faith and ask that this 'day' be called off," she said.
The "Draw Mohammed" page has led to Facebook being blocked in Pakistan and sparked angry protests and condemnation from the foreign ministry, which denounced the "publication of blasphemous caricatures of our holy prophet."
The Facebook page on Tuesday had drawn over 89,000 fans - and a slew of crude photo-shopped pictures and caricatures.
Among the dozens of pictures and drawings submitted to the Facebook page are depictions of a man in Arab garb engaged in sexual acts, blowing things up or portrayed as a pig, an animal considered unclean by Muslims.
The purported creator of the Facebook page said meanwhile that he started it to stand up for "freedom of expression."
"We didn't really know that this would expand so extremely," the man, who would be identified only as "Andy," said in a voice-only interview with the US television channel MSNBC.
"We know that the fight for freedom of expression, freedom of speech can't be stopped by a country like Pakistan censoring the internet," he added.
The Facebook page itself calls for "creative and funny depictions of Mohammed" and says "there is no need to make hateful and totally respectless depiction of him."
"We are not trying to slander the average Muslim, it's not a Muslim/Islam hatepage," the page says. "We simply want to show the extremists that threaten to harm people because of their Mohammed depictions, that we're not afraid of them.
"That they can't take away our right to freedom of speech by trying to scare us to silence," it says.
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and Muslims across the globe staged angry protests over the publication of satirical cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers four years ago.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/cartoonist-molly-norris-disavows-draw-mohammed-day/story-e6frf7jx-1225869413050
AN AMERICAN cartoonist whose work inspired the controversial "Everybody Draw Mohammed Page" on Facebook has condemned the effort and issued an apology to Muslims.
Molly Norris, of Seattle, drew a cartoon in April to protest the decision by the US television channel Comedy Central to cancel an episode of the popular show South Park over its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit.
In her cartoon, Norris satirically proposed May 20 as an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day".
An "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page quickly turned up on Facebook but Norris, writing on her website at mollynorris.com, said she had nothing to do with it.
"I did NOT 'declare' May 20 to be "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," she said, adding that her idea was satire but "was taken seriously, hijacked and made viral".
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"I never started a Facebook page; I never set up any place for people to send drawings to and I never received any drawings," she said.
"The vitriol this 'day' has brought out, of people who only want to draw obscene images, is offensive to Muslims who did nothing to endanger our right to expression in the first place," she said.
"I apologise to people of Muslim faith and ask that this 'day' be called off," she said.
The "Draw Mohammed" page has led to Facebook being blocked in Pakistan and sparked angry protests and condemnation from the foreign ministry, which denounced the "publication of blasphemous caricatures of our holy prophet."
The Facebook page on Tuesday had drawn over 89,000 fans - and a slew of crude photo-shopped pictures and caricatures.
Among the dozens of pictures and drawings submitted to the Facebook page are depictions of a man in Arab garb engaged in sexual acts, blowing things up or portrayed as a pig, an animal considered unclean by Muslims.
The purported creator of the Facebook page said meanwhile that he started it to stand up for "freedom of expression."
"We didn't really know that this would expand so extremely," the man, who would be identified only as "Andy," said in a voice-only interview with the US television channel MSNBC.
"We know that the fight for freedom of expression, freedom of speech can't be stopped by a country like Pakistan censoring the internet," he added.
The Facebook page itself calls for "creative and funny depictions of Mohammed" and says "there is no need to make hateful and totally respectless depiction of him."
"We are not trying to slander the average Muslim, it's not a Muslim/Islam hatepage," the page says. "We simply want to show the extremists that threaten to harm people because of their Mohammed depictions, that we're not afraid of them.
"That they can't take away our right to freedom of speech by trying to scare us to silence," it says.
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and Muslims across the globe staged angry protests over the publication of satirical cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers four years ago.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/cartoonist-molly-norris-disavows-draw-mohammed-day/story-e6frf7jx-1225869413050
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i also had problem with google but only for a minute. ( browser saying the site is restricted ) but now it is working
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