Well in my opinion, all religion is extreme and I am personally happy to participate in an event that finally shows the ridiculousness of religion. I am so sick of having to hear and deal with religion all the time, though I am a staunch atheist, and it feels good to have a day where I can feel free to make fun of the idiotic beliefs people choose to defend. Yeah, maybe it's immature, but so what? At least I don't try to prevent other people from getting married or insert crazy beliefs into education or tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies or start wars or murder or torture or abuse or opress other people all in the name of some weird man-created religion. I don't care if people want to believe in talking snakes, getting 87 virgins when they die, rapture, rising from the dead, unicorns, UFOs or drawing a picture=evil. People can believe whatever the hell they want to believe, but they CANNOT dictate what other people believe and the CANNOT use their beliefs to infringe on the rights and freedoms of others. Why can't people just believe what they want and keep it to themselves? THAT'S the problem. People can't just believe their strange beliefs and follow their strange rules on their own. They need to have everyone else follow their rules and their delusions. I'm so sick of religion, I have no tolerance or patience for it at all. It is the single most destructive creation in history and I can't fathom why we have not evolved past it. So yeah, I'm celebrating today. With pleasure.

By the way, you might find Molly Norris' comments on the matter interesting:

http://www.mollynorris.com/

FACT: Comedy Central censored depictoins of Muhammad in any way, but allowed images of Buddha snorting cocaine.

Terrorists use terror to spread their message, comedians use comedy.

if one tookup the grossly oppressive anti-human freedom notion that things that offend muslims should be illegal or should otherwise simply never happen.  one would have a state exactly like pakistan, or saudi arabia, where this blogs logic is applied in full glory.  all "offensiveness" to islam is removed entirely from those countries.

next time a muslim asks you why you hate them, maybe you can muster up some defense for basic human liberty.  or you could crawl back into your whole and espouse 100% the reasoning of islamist states in murdering and jailing dissenters.  of course asking someone to defend human liberty when all muslims are individually martyring themselves to try and make it illegal to express any criticism of their religion I guess is too emotionally uncomfortable for you.

First, we haven’t stopped drawing at my blog, http://everyonedrawmohammed.blogspot.com/

And our standards are very low.  We only have two rules 1) you must depict mohammed and 2) no actual porn.  Besides that message, offensiveness (or lack thereof), or even quality doesn’t matter.  Just witness our dreaded stick figures of blasphemy.

Now to address your comments Orlando, let’s put this in a little perspective.  For over 20 years there has been a massive, organized and deadly campaign of terror against anyone who criticized or insulted Islam, or merely depicted Mohammed, starting with Salman Rushdie, continuing through the murder of Theo Van Gogh and continuing to today.  Freedom of speech is not dead, but its insane to pretend it is not in peril.

Our governments have done nothing to address this threat.  And the elite media has reduced itself to cowering.  I mean at my site, you can see video where Cnn is talking to Lars Vilks and cnn tells us that he drew Mohammed as a dog.  Then it showed the cartoon, only they blurred out the offensive part.  Which means they showed us a blurry piece of paper.  Seriously, how can you report on the Danish cartoon controversy without showing us the cartoons?

And now Comedy Central has twice censored South Park from showing Mohammed or even saying his name, in response to this campaign of terror.  And again the government fails.  Every member of Revolution Islam who sent that message should be in jail today awaiting trial for extortion.  Instead they walk around free and proud of what they accomplished.

You say “Broadcast and cable networks self-censor all the time” but doing so to avoid criticism, or even loss of ad revenue via boycotts is one thing.  To do it because one loud minority says it will murder you if you don’t comply is another matter.  It must be resisted.

You also write “They do it because they want to offend the smallest number of people possible[.]”  Have you ever actually watched the show South Park?  If anything, its like they have a checklist by which they plan to offend every single person alive.  Heck if you only watched the offending episodes you would have seen Buddha snorting cocaine and Jesus looking at internet porn.  By comparison there was nothing offensive about their depiction of mohammed, except in the fact it was a depiction of Mohammed.

You also write: “Thanks for contributing to the overall perception that we in the West are hostile to the religion of Islam.”

Well, I would rather be mistaken for being hostile to Islam than to be correctly seen as someone who can be bullied into silence.

And that is the point of these protests.  The terrorists said they will kill anyone who insults or merely depicts mohammed.  Well, we believe it is a bluff and we are calling it.  Before it was hacked the facebook page had 110,000 members.  At my site we have over 700 cartoons, including over 300 where the artist gave out their names and locations.  I might add that some of the people contributing consider themselves to be Muslims.  And we are making it therefore impossible for them to carry out their threats.  They can’t kill all of us.  Its that simple.

I understand that in certain cultures it is forbidden to depict mohammed.  But I have a culture, too, and in my culture we not only believe in freedom of speech, we defend it, too.

So next time a muslim asks you to explain our actions, why don't you tell them that, instead?