Why do we need such a day? The Center for Inquiry (love your work!) chose Sept. 30 as International Blasphemy Day to commemorate the “Danish cartoons” that were published in 2005 on that date and to comment on the mass violence that followed. If you don’t remember those events, here’s a brief overview: A newspaper in Denmark published satirical drawings of Muhammad, and, in response, some Danish embassies were firebombed. Approximately 250 people are estimated to have died as a result of the riots and demonstrations.
So, we honor our right to blaspheme on this day, and think and fight for those of us in parts of the world where we can’t.
