Everybody Draw Mohammed Day — Mark your Calendars!

If I haven't already contacted you through Facebook (all seven regular members of the Freethought group, anyway), I'd like to invite you all to an international celebration of free expression, secular activism and pissing the hell out of a bunch of religious nuts. I'm talking, of course, about Everybody Draw Mohammed/Muhammad Day: May 20th, 2010.

I won't bore you with the details, but from the Danish cartoons of just a few years ago to the controversial South Park episode of just a few weeks ago, muslims both radical and moderate have made their opinions abundantly clear: depicting the prophet Muhammad results in threats of violence and death. This is a breach of freedom of expression that the free world CANNOT TOLERATE. So, on the twentieth of May, we're going to get as many individuals as we can to draw Muhammad and post their pictures online. Since no one knows exactly what Muhammad looks like, he may be depicted in any way we see fit. If the leaders of our benevolent atheocracy will permit us, we may even post them here on the Freethought Blog.

Please, this is about more than being bitter or contrarian. Our values have been threatened. All I ask is that you tell all of your freethinking friends, draw something resembling your idea of the prophet Muhammad on the twentieth, and post it online for the world to see.

For support, join this group (over 19,000 strong): Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!

We will not be intimidated. We will not be coerced. We should all stand and fight.