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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Re Geller:

If you think a prohibition on behavior X is dumb, the most logical and best way to challenge the prohibition is to do X.  And do it again and again until the stigma of doing X is gone and the prohibition looks silly.  If certain Muslims want to not draw their prophet, they don't have to, but they don't get to tell non-muslims who don't hold that belief what they can and cannot draw.  I like what Geller did.

The anti-Geller posters all begin by assuming that a prohibition on drawing Mohammed is a good and defensible belief of all or most muslims, but it's not.  It is of relatively recent origin and isn't universally accepted.  Imagine you were a muslim who disagreed that this prohibition was scriptural but was seeing it become a commonplace (mis)interpretation of the Koran/Hadith.  What might you do to oppose it become settled doctrine?  Draw Mohammed... [/quote]

I doubt that you have read any of this thread given that you post doesn't reflect any of the discussion. Nobody has suggest that there should be a prohibition on drawing Muhammed or that Geller was not within her rights to sponsor such drawing. The issue is how the public responds to Geller. Given that Geller is engaged in a long-running anti-Islam campaign, she should be treated no differently than a run-of-the-mill racist or anti-Semite. As you know, racists and anti-Semites are within their rights to hold racist and anti-Semitic events. But, such people are shunned by the general public. Indeed, the mere suggestion that Representative Steve Scalise might have appeared before a racist organization was a significant controversy. Why would someone treat an Islamaphobe differently than they would treat a racist or anti-Semite?
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