{"id":2318,"date":"2010-05-20T06:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T06:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-05-20T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T07:01:09","slug":"draw_mohammed_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Draw Mohammed Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"194\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jami_al-Tawarikh_stone_reduced.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/media\/Jami_al-Tawarikh_stone_reduced.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"325\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<p><i>(Miniature illustration on vellum from the book Jami&#8217; al-Tawarikh (literally &#8220;Compendium of Chronicles&#8221; but often referred to as The Universal History or History of the World), by Rashid al-Din, published in Tabriz, Persia, 1307 A.D)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I thought hard about whether to participate in this.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, there are pious Muslims who will be offended by what I and others do today; for that personal offense I do personally apologize. I chose an image drawn by a pious Muslim deliberately to minimize your hurt.<\/p>\n<p>But politically, and socially, we live in a society where there is no right to be free from offense. And the recent reactions of the few irate Muslims, and the fewer violent ones, means simply that I can&#8217;t stand by. I owe them no apology, and simply want to say that their behavior is what makes this necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m disinterested in living in a world where people try and kill cartoonists for what they draw. When that stops, I&#8217;ll be happy to be more polite. Until then, I&#8217;ll point out that we live in a society where we take our most holy icons and dip them in piss. <\/p>\n<p>Why should any icons be entitled to anything different?<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s &#8216;Draw Mohammed Day&#8217; &#8211; I wish it didn&#8217;t have to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}