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Recent Responses to the Controversy

The furor over the Danish cartoons has provoked a wide variety of responses from the media and fromartists. Several European publications not only reprinted the original cartoons, but published newcartoon portraits of Mohammed as well. Many professional and amateur artists have also been inspiredto fashion their own satirical portraits of Mohammed as a statement about freedom of speech. (Thecontemporary depictions of Mohammed on this page are for the most part respectful, neutral, or atmost mildly satirical. To see new Mohammed portraits that are intentionally direspectful and/or obscene,go to the Extreme Mohammed page.)

Filibuster cartoons featured a comic that pointedly exposed the hypocrisy of the Islamic response.(Hat tip: Ole and Benjamin.)

A wide selection of Mohammed Smileys -- also known as Mocons (Mohammed Icons) -- are available atHodja's Blog: here's a small sampling of them:

Muhammad (((:~{>Muhammad as a pirate (((P~{>Muhammad on a bad turban day ))):~{>Muhammad with sand in his eye (((;~{>Muhammad wearing sunglasses (((B~{>Mohammad with a lit bomb in his turban *-O)):~{> The devil mo ]:~{>Mohammed with a nuclear bomb in his turban. @=(((:~{>Muhammad being shot by Starship Enterprise =-o * * * (((:~{>Muhammad sees a Danish cartoonist !((((8~{o>

Mocons are the most efficient way to digitally propagate the maximum amount of Mohammed imageryper byte.



This stencilled graffiti version of one of the cartoons on a wall was photographed by a reader inHamburg, Germany on February 16, 2006. The words under the image say, "Hallo Mittelalter '06" --"Hello Middle Ages '06".(Hat tip: Tim.)

As reported in the New York Daily News, an entrepreneur in Hawaii created and is successfully sellingbobblehead Mohammeds on his site called Dashboard Mohammed. The product, which costs $14.99, isshown on the left, and was based on the rendering of Mohammed shown on the right, which was itself based on the famous Danish "bomb-in-the-turban" cartoon. More bobblehead Mohammed images canseen on the site's "Proofs" page, showing step by step how the drawing was turned into the toy.(Hat tip: Nordish and Martin.)



In May of 2006, Harper's magazine finally got around to reprinting the original 12 Mohammed cartoons,along with an article by Art Spiegelman -- who also created this updated portrait of Mohammed (in thecenter) based on one of the 12 cartoons, surrounded by racist stereotypes -- somehow implying that thedepiction of Mohammed is a racial issue, not a religious and free speech issue. Several blogs gaveextensive coverage to the story, including Michelle Malkin and Nordish, among others.(Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)

Several postmodern satirists have highlighted the point that -- since no one really knows whatMohammed looked like -- any image could be said to depict him. To that end, they have captionedphotos of their thumbs or rudimentary stick figures as "Mohammed." This image -- of a generic figurefrom the Danish toy company Lego, identified as being Mohammed -- is a good example of the genre.(Hat tip: darmin.)



MSNBC political cartoonist Daryl Cagle emphasized the point with this response to the story, whichincludes a stick-figure Mohammed. Cagle also maintains an excellent collection of political cartoonsabout the controversy.

Slate cartoonist Jack Higgins drew this cartoon of Mohammed responding violently to the Pope'ssuggestion that Islam is violent -- with a riff on the old aphorism, "If Mohammed can not go to themountain, then the mountain must come to Mohammed."(Hat tip: Ted K.)



When the Taliban offered a reward to anyone who killed cartoonists who drew Mohammed, "Normal BobSmith" created this interpretation of someone taking advantage of their offer.(Hat tip: Fenris.)



The proprietor of the Chaikaroma blog wore a "Mo-bomb-head" costume for Halloween 2006 and postedthe pictures online..



In the nation of Sweden there is a contemporary urban folk custom of placing in the center of "roundabouts" (the circular traffic islands in the middle of major intersections) whimsical homemadesculptures representing pet dogs. The sculptures, which are fairly commonplace in Sweden, are called"roundabout dogs" (rondellhund in Swedish). In the summer of 2007, Swedish artist Lars Vilks madesome paintings of Mohammed as a roundabout dog; after they were rejected by two art galleries waryof controversy, a sketch based on one of the paintings ended up being published in a small localSwedish newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda. Incredibly, this ignited an international furor, with protests,

diplomatic quarrels, and threats of violence. The original sketch, seen above, was also posted on Vilks'blog.(Hat tips: Martin H., Jonathan R., Gilles C., Politically Incorrect Lib, Raafat.)

Link directly to this section about Lars Vilks' roundabout dog Mohammeds



Over the following month, Vilks continued to draw additional sketches of Mohammed as a roundaboutdog, as a regular dog, and as a human in various satirical settings, and posted them to his blog on July21, July 22, July 23, July 25, July 26, July 27, July 29, July 30, August 11, August 13, and August 18.



More details about the international furor can be found at these links: The Lars Vilks Muhammad drawings controversy, at wikipedia.Newspaper article in Swedish about the beginnings of the incident. Turkish hackers attacked Swedish Web sites as retaliation for the roundabout dog Mohammed.

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Here are two close-ups of the cartoon shown in the first picture; click the image on the left to watch thevideo (or here to see the plain jpeg). There were originally over ten video segments in all visible on YouTube before they were taken offline; the three shown here were the most interesting.

Two of the videos, along with another screenshot and more info about the political fallout in Denmark,can be found on the "Tabooh" blog. Additional screenshots can be viewed at Riehl World View, and aroundup of links on this incident can be found at Hot Air.

On October 8, 2006, the scandal over the drunken cartoon-drawing contest went international when thePresident of Iran and the Prime Minister of Denmark both strongly condemned the incident, withAhmadinejad saying of the amateur cartoonists, "Those who make these insults are low life, lost,without human values." The government of Iran berated the Danish envoy over the drinking game,comparing it to the Holocaust. The International Herald Tribune has reported that two of the peopleshown in these videos have gone into hiding out of fear, and the Danish government has now warned itscitizens not to travel to Muslim countries.



The Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen ran this cartoon on June 3, 2008 as a commentary on thecontinuing violence in the Muslim world over the Mohammed cartoons. The text on his chest translatesas: "I am Muhammed and nobody dares to print me."(Hat tip: Luuk.)

The Humanist site "Freethunk" features this cartoon of Mohammed declaring his own reflection to beblasphemous; the page also features a few other Mohammed cartoons and clip-art images.



This is one frame from an animated gif showing the Arabic characters for Mohammed's name little bylittle building up a stylized portrait of Mohammed himself. It was designed to be a "test of piety" forMuslims, since the written version of Mohammed's name is supposed to be revered, whereas portraits of him are now considered by many to be blasphemous; so, at which point will the growing image ceasebeing sacred and start to become blasphemous? If the full animated sequence is found, it will be postedhere.

Mohammed offers some Koranic wisdom about meddlesome artists in the "Mohammed the ProphetAnswers Your Emails" cartoon strip.



The French blogger "HerbeDeProvence" had his original blog deleted after he posted this satiricalcartoon of Mohammed in jail. The caption under the picture says, "If the Koran had been written lastweek...", and Mohammed is saying, ""Let me out! I am Mohammed, the prophet of Islam!" while the jailer replies, "No sir! Under French law you are a child molester, a pillager and an assassin." The pictureappears to be a drawing by famed Tintin artist Hergé (or one of his imitators), and probably originally

depicted a 20th-century Arab in jail -- which was subsequently given a new caption and newword-balloons by the satirist.

Another cartoon posted on the same HerbeDeProvence site mocks Mohammed as a failed stand-up



comedian. The title reads, "Mohammed, an unjustly ignored comedian." Mohammed is saying a quotehistorically attributed to him, "Any Jew who falls under your hand, kill him."

Charlie Hebdo, a French humor weekly, published an issue devoted to Mohammed satires (visible here)on February 7 after winning a court case granting them permission to do so. The publication hassparked anger in France's Muslim community. In the cartoon above, Mohammed is saying, "It's hard tobe loved by idiots."(Hat tip: etienne.)



Le Nouvel Observateur also has scans of the Charlie Hebdo edition online, including this panel with twosurrealist visual jokes: the one on top says, "Can one represent Mohammed...like he is today?"; thebottom caption says, "This is not a caricature of the Prophet" (a take-off on This Magritte painting).(Hat tip: Martin.)

Islamic groups in France have repeatedly dragged Charlie Hebdo into court, accusing them of blasphemy for publishing Mohammed cartoons. So far Charlie Hebdo has been victorious in all the judgments.

When a Russian newspaper published this cartoon, it was shut down by authorities and its editor facedcriminal charges. Reader John M. sends a translation of what Moses is saying: "But we didn't teach themthis," refering to the people fighting on the television.(Hat tip: Martin.)



"Muhammad and Sam," a drawing by artist Andrew Lavin, appeared on the Real Politiks blog inFebruary, 2008.

(Hat tip: Fenris)



This variation on the turban-bomb Mohammed appeared on the ISLAM & Graphic blog, and is apparentlya commentary on the Koranic commandment that it is allowable to enslave and then rape womenduring wartime.(Hat tip: Francesca C.)

This Russian cartoon, titled "Pigs of War," shows Mohammed holding a banner that says (in Russian)"Islam = Peace" while leading a herd of pigs labeled "Al Qaeda," "Hamas," "Hezbollah," etc.(Hat tip: Nikki N.)



This black-light painting of a kitschy evil Elvis-Mohammed was created by the team at Velvet Prophet.(To get a version that doesn't have the "Copy" watermark on it, you'd have to buy one of the VelvetProphet paintings or t-shirts.)(Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)



Many pundits, weary of repeating his name so often, have given Mohammed the nickname "Mo" --which inspired this portrait of Mo as Moe of the Three Stooges.

"Mohammed -- Seconds before his destruction," is the title of this anonymous allegorical montage. Afull-size version can be viewed here.



This unusual complimentary portrait compares Mohammed with Miss Liberty as a political liberatoragainst tyrants.(Hat tip: Martin.)



Dutch artist Gregorius Nekschot created this new Mohammed cartoon (one of many by Nekschot) as aresponse to the Danish cartoon crisis.

Belgian artist Ben Heine drew this image entitled "Jesus versus Mohammed." Though his politicalcartoons generally are virulently anti-Israel and anti-America, he has also drawn several otherMohammed satires, such as this one.



Cartoonist John Cole of The Times-Tribune syndicate commented on the controversy over The New

Yorker magazine cover which depicted Barack Obama as a Muslim by comparing his supporters' outrageto the outrage actual Muslims feel over satirical images of Mohammed.(Hat tip: Fenris.)

"Married to Children," a parody of the TV sitcom "Married with Children," lampoons Mohammed'smarriage to the 6-year-old Aisha. It circulated extensively on the Web in the months after the 2006cartoon crisis.



In response to the furor over British teacher Gillian Gibbons allowing her Sudanese students to nametheir teddy bear Mohammed, resulting in riots, violence and jail time for Gillian, archive reader "stuck-in-ca" created this image of a Sudanaese Islamic guerilla teddy bear Mohammed.

Here's another Mohammed Teddy Bear, made in response to the Gillian Gibbons incident. It was widelyposted on the Internet, though it's not clear who first created the image.



The "There Is No God" blog had this gangsta teddy Mohammed as their illustration for another storyabout the Sudanese teddy bear crisis.(Hat tip: CiberTrix.)

Links to additional recent images:

The Six Faces of Mohammed is Macker's Warholesque parody of the most notorious Danish cartoon.Mohammed (Peas be upon him) jokes UK's The Freethinker magazine, whose editor once was convictedof blasphemy. (Hat tip: foreign devil and nord.)

A peaceful Mohammed confuses the mujahedeen. The "Satan's Salvation" comic by Normal Bob Smith featured Mohammed beheading Jesus in one of aseries of cartoons.Normal Bob Smith's cartoon "The Sheeples" also featured an image of a Muslim praying to Mohammedamong worshippers from other religions.

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