[ April 18, 2024 ]
Superb interview with AFDI Muhammad drawing winner, Bosch Fawstin. He is a hero, a real champion of freedom.
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“Bosch Fawstin on Islam and Jihad,” By Craig Biddle, The Objective Standard, May 2015
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Bosch Fawstin is a cartoonist, blogger, and creator of the anti-jihad superhero Pigman. Having won the recent Muhammad cartoon contest, a pro-free speech initiative sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, Bosch was in attendance at the award ceremony in Garland, Texas, when two rifle-wielding jihadists arrived to murder everyone there. Fortunately, moments after the jihadists opened fire (hitting only a security guard in the ankle), they were shot dead by a SWAT team.
As readers of The Objective Standard know, this latest assault by jihadists on freedom of speech is one in a long series, from the Iranian government’s fatwa on Salman Rushdie for depicting Muhammad in his novel The Satanic Verses; to the murder of Theo van Gogh for directing the film Submission, which depicted Islamic violence against women; to the attempted assassination of Kurt Westergaard for drawing a cartoon of Muhammad; to death threats against Matt Stone and Trey Parker for depicting Muhammad dressed as a bear; to calls for beheading Geert Wilders for producing the film Fitna, which showed that the Koran calls for violence against infidels; to the massacre of twelve people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo for satirizing Muhammad. Bosch Fawstin and the organizers and attendees of the Garland event are recent additions to this list of infidels who speak their minds in spite of Muslim threats because they know that freedom of speech is the last leg of a free (or semi-free) society.
I recently spoke with Bosch, whose drawing of Muhammad and Jesus covers the Spring 2015 issue of The Objective Standard. Three of his cartoons, including his winning entry, are included with this interview. —Craig Biddle
Craig Biddle: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to chat with me, Bosch. It’s an honor to interview you. And congratulations on winning the Muhammad cartoon contest. Your drawing is brilliant and profound, in that it captures so much about the nature of the problem at hand.
Bosch Fawstin: Thank you very much; that means a lot. And I want to say kudos to you as well for publishing an issue of The Objective Standard with Muhammad on it, something very few publishers have done in the West.
Biddle: Let me begin by asking what went through your head when you heard that shots had been fired at the Garland event?
Fawstin: I was on somewhat of a high, having just won the $12,500 award and standing on a stage with Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Geert Wilders. I was in the middle of an interview with CNN when my friend told me shots were fired. Now, I understand the threat we face—I’ve studied Islam as if my life depended on it after 9/11—but being in the middle of an actual jihadist attack was . . . I can’t find the words . . . surreal seems too easy, but it was just the latest reminder that this enemy—one our government could have long defeated by now—is getting to us in ways it never has before, because our government has not done its job in defeating it.
Biddle: Some people, such as Bill O’Reilly, say that publishing cartoons of Muhammad is pointlessly provocative, and that you and the organizers of the Garland event were asking for trouble. What’s your response to that?
Fawstin: Bill O’Reilly is a buffoon. He’s so far removed from the reality that we’re at war, that Islam is the motivation behind that war, and that Muslims are on the warpath, that his only concern seems to be about the feelings of Muslim “folks.” And he reserves all of his criticism for a woman (where are the “sexist” charges against her critics?), Pamela Geller, who showed more courage on that one night in Garland than O’Reilly ever has. The event was necessarily provocative to Muslims and Islamophiles who would censor us in the name of sharia—in other words, in the name of protecting them from experiencing their baseless emotions.
Biddle: Having been raised in a Muslim family, and having actually read the Koran, you are quite familiar with the religion of Islam. Why, in your view, are some Muslims bent on killing non-Muslims—especially those who criticize the religion or draw pictures of Muhammad?
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11 Comments
8 years ago
Gosh I am growing to really love that religion of peace, love and gentle brotherhood!
8 years ago
Love the “Is this your position…” drawing!! It’s as boiled-down to its essence as a traffic sign.
Brilliant!
8 years ago
“they were shot dead by a SWAT team”
What? First it was a single off-duty policeman? The a ‘security guard’… can we have the truth, please?
8 years ago
Reply to
Jim Fox
The important thing is that they were shot dead before they could kill anyone. But being shot in the ankle can be quite crippling if bones are shattered. I hope that the security guard recovers completely.
8 years ago
Grand to have such an event for free speech in the face of islam , but why were the folks there all fixed up to be victims ? Lady Pamela ?
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights . Carry
8 years ago
I am amazed as to how much in agreement we are about Islam. Good people are good people despite their religion not because of it was what I once said several years ago. I have also been a little critical of Hannity for his use of the term “radical Islam”. But the important thing is that Hannity is on our side.
D
8 years ago
Thank g-d for the Objectivists! Unlike the Libertarians they take a stand against savagery. The Libertarians mix Ayn Rand with Abbie Hoffman and make a weird mélange, but the Objectivists are clearer and do not apologize or wallow in evil as the Libertarians (such as Ekaterina Jung) do.
8 years ago
Pam Geller is the modern day Paul Revere. She is just as much a hero as he was as she tries to alert Americans to the rapidly approaching enemy.
8 years ago
I love these posters: the last two should be on buses too.
8 years ago
Just a note for regular readers….A Handbook on Islam. I’ve just approved it for release and it should be available for sale on Amazon in a day or two. In the meantime, the Kindle edition has already registered some sales and it’s been up only 12 hours. Both editions feature Bosch Fawstin’s drawing of Mohammad as the sole illustration.
8 years ago
If I could paint, here’s my entry in the contest: Mohammed is in the woods. A great grizzly comes upon him. Does a bear crap in the woods? He does now.
