{"id":60074,"date":"2015-05-29T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60074"},"modified":"2015-05-29T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:28:17","slug":"draw-the-prophet-contest-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60074","title":{"rendered":"“Draw the prophet” contest in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, this fellow, Jon Ritzheimer, who claims to be a Marine veteran, for some reason thinks that organizing a “Draw the Prophet” contest<\/a> on the door step of a Phoenix mosque will prove something we don’t know, because a month after the Garland, Texas shooting, I guess we already forgot that Islam gets upset when someone draws Muhammad.<\/p>\n

“I let them know we’re coming to their doorstep and we’re going to be there utilizing our First Amendment; we’ll be ready to protect it with our Second Amendment,” contest organizer Jon Ritzheimer said.<\/p>\n

The cartoon drawing contest is similar to one in Garland, TX, at which two men from Phoenix tried to ambush participants, shooting a security guard before they were shot and killed by police.<\/p>\n

“I’m just a blatant, blunt, outspoken Marine,” Ritzheimer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I understand completely – it’s offensive to me that, in my country, people think that they can limit our rights simply by showing up here. However, I don’t feel a pressing need to draw Muhammad. There are many more important things for me to get upset about than the threat of violence against me if I do something that I have no intention of doing anyway.<\/p>\n

The place where he intends to hold his contest, the Phoenix Islamic Center, condemned the two Garland gunmen (who worshipped at the Center), they also condemned ISIS, so I don’t get why Mister Ritzheimer thinks that he “has to” hold his contest there. I’m all for freedom of expression and speech, but not when it’s intended to incite violence. I’ll grant that an innocuous act like drawing a cartoon shouldn’t incite violence, especially when no one will actually be drawing an accurate picture of Muhammad anyway, since no one has seen the dude for almost 1400 years.<\/p>\n

In that spirit, here’s my submission – Muhammad as seen from an airplane after a snowfall;<\/p>\n

\"Muhammad<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n