Erik Abild Sørensen
Another Mohammed-drawing without MohammedErik Abild Sørensen doesn't pull his punches: "Prophet! Daft and dumb. Keeping women under thumb". I bet that hurts - but didn't we just agree that it was pictures of the prophet that were prohibited? Now suddenly, it is criticism in general.
It isn't Sørensen, who claims, that the al-Quran requires women to wear a "chador" or a "burqa". There are actually Muslim men out there, who make this claim - and they become the target of Sørensen's drawing.
If Muslim countries had more artist like Sørensen, they might have had a debate about women's rights a long time ago. Perhaps that's what they are afraid of?
Added 2008.03.05: Erik Abild Sørensen dies, aged 89 - proving that if you live long enough, Allah, the Devil, Sweet Baby Jesus, the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Zolzar: The Undying will get you in the end.
May his memory live.
