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February 7, 2006

US: Muslim Cartoon Protest: T-Shirts Of Mohammed As Elvis

A press release from Send2Press states that a New York-based group, claiming to support Human Rights organisations, has produced a new image to add to the controversy - the "Velvet Prophet".

The image is going to be given, free of charge, handpainted original Velvet Prophets, painted on black velvet, to: Jemayaah Islamiya, the Arab European League, the Muslim Council of Britain, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Islamic Defenders Front, Islamic Circle of North America and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

The group which would perhaps need such a painting most on its office walls, the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), founded by supporters of terrorism, has somehow been omitted from the list. CAIR likes to use its Saudi funding to launch unnecessary legal suits against those who expose its true agenda, or do not find CAIR to be a "worthwhile" or "American" enterprise, so perhaps they are being wise.

Sales of the Velvet Prophet T-shirts (pictured) are hoped to raise money for organisations which protect freedom of speech, such as: Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the Universist Movement, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the American Civil Liberties Foundation.

On the Velvet Prophet website, the manufacturers of the paintings and T-shirts state:

Velvet Prophet paintings protest the presence of a medieval culture in the 21st Century. We witnessed a clash of civilizations when Jyllands-Posten published cartoons critical of Islam. Both mainstream and radical Islamists responded with violence ranging from violence to the human right of free expression to physical violence. We cannot allow the modern world to be held hostage by an ideological anachronism. The Islamic World understands that the free exchange of ideas would inevitably lead to the demise of an inferior culture. Their response represented the temper tantrums of a child who simply does not want to grow up. Child psychology tells us not to give in to their demands.

T-shirts can be ordered from the site. They attempt to make comparisons between Elvis and Mohammed, and quote Christopher Hitchens, the UK-born journalist who wrote in the Sunday Times:

"There isn't an inch to give, nothing to negotiate and no concessions to offer. Those of us who believe in enlightenment and free speech also have unalterable principles which we will not give up. We have to listen all the time to piratical-looking mullahs calling our Jewish friends pigs and demanding the censorship of The Satanic Verses and we find this fantastically insulting, but we don't behave like babies. They are making a puerile spectacle of themselves.

We should say, how dare you behave in this way? They can put themselves under laws and taboos if they wish, but it is nothing to do with me or anybody else. They are completely out of order."

This much should already be obvious to all. No-one should let these childish thugs intimidate them, and they have managed to show to the world the true intolerance at the heart of their faith, and in the heart of the prophet who approved the murders of those who mocked him.

As well as showing what a despicable man Mohammed was, the fact that such executions took place demonstrate that for many, he was a laughing stock in his own life-time.

And for many of us infidels, his preposterous claims to be a prophet should always remain a source of ridicule and laughter.

I personally cannot respect an individual who sexually molested a nine-year old child (see here for info), nor can I respect anyone who attempts to defend or hero-worship one who indulged in such disgraceful activities.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 7, 2006 4:12 PM

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