Agreed this is not something Rosty should endorse in any way shape or form. I'm torn on the matter personally. If it could be done responsibly, tastefully and with proper satire and some measure of respect, it'd be a great show of support for the cartoonists who were persecuted, [the cartoonist from Denmark who was killed for his cartoons, the South Park team having received death threats, and more recently with the Seattle cartoonist[, but there's a delicate line between satire and an outright attack, and I've little doubt [call me pessimistic] an event like this will result in anything short of, as CaptainJack said, immature inflammatory material. Its really an overreaction to an overreaction, and its become a great big mess.

In defense of the event, so far as I know, none of those cartoonists did anything worse than is done daily with any political figure or any other religious figure/icon/deity/entity/being, why should one religious figure get special exception from satire? While a religion might forbid the depiction of a certain figure, it surely grants them no right to bring harm to anyone, regardless of beliefs.

Just as you have the right to say what you will of any party within reasonable bounds, freedom of speech grants that party the same rights of you, however any party's rights end when they infringe upon another's, and that's often a murky grey-ish area. When it becomes an organized persecution tho, its starts to step out of the grey and into the black. I think we, as artists, could all probably use a refresher course on what is granted by freedom of speech, and what is an abuse of freedom of speech. We could probably use a refresher on copyright laws as well, but that's another story.

Daidolos, I've no issue with those who do choose to participate, tho I'd like to see and feel it would be most poignant if done with respect, but I don't think Rosty should advocate anything that targets or excludes anyone. Also bear in mind, this is Rosty's playground, and your freedom of speech is, as is true for most of the internet, not wholly guaranteed.

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