Wednesday, February 01, 2006

How to commit blasphemy

A graphical example.
Step1 - draw a man:




Step2 - explain that you are portraying the prophet Mohammed:

Step3 - sit back and wait for the fundamentalist Islamic clerics to put a fatwa on your ass and declare war against you and your country.


The events surrounding the publication of drawings of the prophet Mohammed in the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten a couple of months ago has taken an even more dramatic turn for the worse.

A large Islamic extremist party in Pakistan has offered a reward of 50,000 kroner to anyone who kills any of the artists.


I forgot to mention Step4 - if you live in Victoria, you can expect to be prosecuted under our blasphemy laws for offending people's religious views.