Americans are getting sick and tired of Islamist thugs threatening to hurt and even kill innocent people for doing nothing more than criticizing Islam, drawing a picture of Mohammed, or even uttering the Muslim prophet’s name. No one should live in fear of physical retaliation for utilizing his or her First Amendment rights.

We all know by now that Comedy Central, a network that considers itself brave and edgy for criticizing American politicians, censored an episode of South Park. I’ve never been a fan of the show, to be honest. But the network was cowardly for permitting Islamist threats to determine its programming.

Enough is enough. It’s time to tell these thugs to go screw themselves. Which brings us to the first annual “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”. Someone, it’s not clear who, has declared May 20th to be the host day for the new holiday. You can see the poster here, but I’ll copy the text below:

In light of recent veiled (ha!) threats aimed at the creators of the television show South Park (for depicting the prophet Mohammed in a bear suit) by bloggers on Revolution Muslim’s website, we hereby deem May 20, 2010 as the first annual

“Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!”

Do your part to both water down the pool of targets and, oh yeah, defend a little something our country is famous for (but maybe not for long? Comedy Central cooperated with terrorists and pulled the episode)

the first amendment

Sponsored by Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor or CACAH (pronounced ca-ca).

The initiative is dedicated to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park.

Have an entry? You can send it to Michael Moynihan of Reason here.

If readers would like to show their solidarity, please email your Mohammad masterpieces to me here: mmoynihan at reason.com. The best ones will be published on Hit & Run, which, along with the concomitant death threat, is reward enough.

Who’s in?