There's been some Internet buzz generated by an artist blogger's attempt to make May 20th "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day."
Apparently, the artist has gotten a little skittesh because some over-enthusiastic artists have already started posting intentionally offensive images. The artist appears to have wanted people just to draw benign images as a means of showing solidarity with free speech advocates. After all, even South Park didn't portray Muhammad negatively. It was part of their satire that Comedy Central would censor benign images of Islam's Prophet and yet still air blatantly offensive images of every other religious figure imaginable.
That being said, maybe instead of exercising our political freedom to draw whomever we darned want to...we should use the day to express our religious and spiritual freedom to revere God in our own art. Rather than drawing Muhammad as a means of biting our thumbs at deranged Muslims who are willing to kill people over pictures, we should instead show off and flaunt our freedom and our intimate relationship with God who doesn't mind when we draw pictures of Him.
Actually, it might be a great day to celebrate the Shroud of Turin...(if it is really miraculous, then its God's self-portrait; if it's fake, then it still makes the point about depicting Christ in art.)
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