Two Gunmen Shot Dead Outside Muhammad Cartoon Contest in Texas

According to the AP, a cop and two suspects were shot outside a contest offering a $10,000 prize for cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in Texas Sunday.

According to the AP, a cop and two suspects were shot outside a contest offering a $10,000 prize for cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in Texas Sunday.

Wikipedia's entry on Muhammad was first published on November 8, 2001. It was eleven sentences long. Over the next few years, several thousand new words were added and edited, but it wasn't until 2005 that an image of Muhammad was attached: A 16th-century painting depicting the Islamic prophet. Two hours later, the…
During an interview on Sky News, French journalist and Charlie Hebdo contributor Caroline Fourest attempted to make a point about the U.K. media's decision not to show the most recent Charlie Hebdo cover (which features a cartoon of a penis-shaped Muhammad) by holding the cover up for the cameras.
A Pakistani attorney general is investigating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the site hosted an obnoxious "Draw Muhammad" contest last month. Blasphemy is punishable by death under Pakistani law, as the contest's planners well knew, so congrats, everyone! It "worked."
Whether anyone likes it or not, "Everybody Draw Mohammed [sp?] Day" is here, thanks to the unstoppability of internet memes. Muslim reactions have ranged from reasonable to unreasonable. But the reaction of the day's (unintentional) creator sums it up best.
In 2007, Swedish artist Lars Vilks drew a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog, with the intention of examining political correctness in art. He received international condemnation and death threats. Yesterday, he was attacked. Enough already.
Speaking of idiotic uproars over cartoons, at colleges: The guy who drew the Danish Muhammad cartoon that set off worldwide riots is coming to Yale—the provincial little school whose University Press allows religious psychos to dictate what it publishes.
Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies.
Seems that some of those humorous-from-afar fanatics are still upset about those Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused all that fuss two years ago; police just arrested three people for plotting to kill one of the cartoonists involved. One tragedy has been averted, but it's too late to save the…