A little song related to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy...
We’ll be Drawing Old Muhammad on the Wall
(music: She’ll be coming ’round the mountain,
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/... )
We’ll be drawing old Muhammad on the wall,
We’ll be drawing old Muhammad on the wall,
For even Muslims must admit it,
You don’t need a special permit,
To be drawing old Muhammad on the wall.
We’ll be spraying old Muhammad on the wall,
We’ll be spraying old Muhammad on the wall,
With graffiti that’s persisting,
We will show that we’re insisting,
On our right to spray The Prophet on the wall.
We’ll be painting old Muhammad on the wall,
We’ll be painting old Muhammad on the wall,
Now some claim that He’s angelic,
So we’ll paint Him psychedelic,
We sure hope He likes His pictures on the wall.
We’ll be etching old Muhammad on the wall,
We’ll be etching old Muhammad on the wall,
'Cause we need to make a stand,
Or our rights they will get banned,
And we’ll find ourselves lined up against the wall.
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I'm posting this because Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 Danish cartoonists who became famous due the the so-called "Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy", has for a second time been physically attacked.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
I very strongly believe that freedom of speech is a corner-stone of our Western society. We must be free to say nasty and outrageous things about Jesus, Muhammad, religion, priests, politicians, governments, police, the military, scientists, assholes and whoever in order to further free thought and public debate. This is partly why Western society has developed, and we enjoy the freedom and prosperity we have, while religious-dominated societies are subjected to poverty (if they don't happen to have natural resources they can sell) and social unrest or social repression.
The last time Kurt Westergaard was attacked almost all of the Danish newspapers reprinted his cartoon in a demonstration of solidarity. I hope they do it again. One could hope that American media would also show some support for the concept of free speech, but so far they prefer to talk about the Muhammad cartoons, but refuse to reproduce them "to avoid offending anyone".
Happy New Year everyone.