As authorities continue to investigate an attempted terror attack on a contest to draw the prophet Muhammad in Texas, Bosch Fawstin, the winner of the event, has retreated into hiding, saying he faces persistent death threats.
UPDATE: Bosch Fawstin wrote this on Twitter: “Despite a Dishonest Wall Street Journal headline story saying I’ve gone into hiding because I’ve gotten death threats, I’ve Not gone into hiding”
Pamela Geller (h/t revereridesagain) Bosch Fawstin netted $12,500 for winning the contest’s grand prize as well as the “People’s Choice Award” for his drawing depicting Muhammad wielding a sword and saying, “you can’t draw me!”
ALL CARTOONS BELOW ARE BY BOSCH FAWSTIN, AN EX-MUSLIM
In an interview on Tuesday, the cartoonist was vague about his whereabouts, saying only that he lives somewhere in the U.S. “I don’t want to say where,” Mr. Fawstin said, also declining to say his age. “There are Muslims out there who want to kill me.”
Mr. Fawstin said he was raised by Albanian Muslim parents in the Bronx but eventually renounced his faith. He said the 9/11 terrorist attacks motivated him to use his art to denounce Islamic extremism.
He has drawn a comic book called “Pigman,” featuring a hero who battles “pigotry” and his arch nemesis, SuperJihad. He said he has also drawn several dozen cartoon renderings of the Islamic prophet.
“I do it because we have been told we can’t,” he said. “I’m not just provoking people for the hell of it.…Provocation is freedom of speech—it’s not separate from it.”
The Muhammad art competition in Garland, Texas, was hosted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Some 200 people attended the event according to a participant.
Pamela Geller, the group’s president, said the competition was a way to promote free speech and was a response to a January attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic extremists that killed 12 people, including some of the publication’s most famous cartoonists. Critics of the group claim it promotes extreme, anti-Islamic views.
Armed with assault rifles and wearing protective body gear, two men opened fire outside the community center in Garland but were quickly gunned down by law enforcement.
Days before the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a joint bulletin to law-enforcement agencies, warning that while authorities didn’t know of any specific threats tied to the contest, they were concerned that it could “prompt violent extremist reaction”.
The bulletin said authorities were especially concerned about acts targeting contest participants, who may not understand the degree to which they could be in danger, in the days and weeks following the event.
Mr. Fawstin said he will likely have to remain incognito for the foreseeable future. “I’ve been called a hermit since a kid,” he said. “I’m used to being on my own.”
This was best muhammad drawing from the contest in 2015:
https://gifyu.com/images/Mohammad-Drawing.jpg
You can trust venomous snakes but not muslims.
To barenakedislam….
I live in India and Indian constitution gives me right to follow any religion I like…..coming in front of my thinkings and activities is equivalent to going against Secularism in our Indian constitution…..In India law is made not by Islamic laws but by the articles of Indian Constitution……
Also muslims here are not that who causes problems…..because India is Hinduism as majority…..They have to think 10 times before doing anything….Also India’s Largest party Is RSS-BJP(in present)…..
Hope you understood what I am trying to say….
AA, I like your current government and Modi.
# Regarding the cartoons it is really funny….I like it….
¤ I am not a saintly person.Nor do I know much about Religion.I am a common human being who believe in peace and harmony.I don’t follow any strict rule prescribed by anyone or any religious book…I work and think according to my own principle….As much as I know A preacher of violence who is having questionable character cannot be a preacher of truth,god and religion……
¤ This logic could be understood only by an educated person who at least cannot be brain washed….
¤ It does not mean I am an atheist.It means I am against violence and misdeeds…
¤ Also I don’t want to see any verse of Quran being commented here…It’s enough….I too know much of it….But you know only a mistake makes the entire answer of mathematics go wrong no matter how much you are knowledgeable in mathematics and good formula you used…Again only a single mistake makes the answer go wrong irrespective of correct steps in it….Such is the case with scriptures…..Only one misguidance can overturn everything and at last you cannot call it as a religious scripture….One such verse is in quran where it openly commands to kill all infields because they are non-muslims….yes quran contains many wisdoms and right sayings but according to me this misguidance verse cannot be a command from the almighty thus you can come to the conclusion if you have common sense….
I am personally a muslim but I too confess it’s too much from my religions extremism….The world is filled with hatred due to us and some of the Quranic texts are really mis-leading….
Trust me….educated muslims know nothing about their religion….nor I have observed them to read quran and pray 5 times a day nor do they fast at Ramadan…I am myself hod of mathematics of a senior secondary school…..one of my muslim friends is quiet studios and excellent in Literature…I like him very much….
About those who you all are talking about are brain washed and illiterate muslims….
My name is Ahmed Ali……any Religion plays no significance in my life…..I pay attention nothing of Islamic teachings….what I know is mathematics(10+2) level …..Of CBSE
I wish all other muslims to pay attention on studies and education keeping aside ISLAM because competition is growing high…..and it is no use to live like animal following corrupted and meaningless Scriptures….
Pay attention to studies….There is no religion greater than filling stomach…..
Quran will never be able to feed your stomach….note it….Just throw it away…
To other non-muslims what they criticise over our scripture is absolutely true….
I am thinking to accept Christ….I am more interested in him….
Ahmed, if you are actually a Muslim, I commend you. But be careful, making such statements could get you killed for being an apostate.
Congrats for made funny cartoon. Unfortunately you all only guessing what kind of Mohammed face based from your all wicked lust and hatred. Oh well. That,s your all choices American bro and sis. Respect isn’t that part of our 1st Amandement in out constitution,right? Freedom of speech also supported with unbiased judgment.
Muslims deserve no respect and it is not a requirement of the First Amendment. Obviously you are ignorant of “our” constitution which is not yours.
Good for you, Bosch!! You are very talented and are using your talent for a very good cause. God Bless you!!
Crap in the grass, I call it Muhammad.
cristine fuck off u lowdekeball teri maku gand maaro chinalke muslim ke bareme bol teri mayat udaadaltu jhant ke all suwar chodikke jhant gand maru chinalke suwarrrrrrrrrrr fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
its time we, the ordinary citizens, declare war against islam
$10,000 spent on extra security. Thats only 5k per kill. I wonder what obamas cost per kill is. We need more contests!!!!
It was more like $50,000 I heard.
No, you’re right Jimbo, it was at least $10,000. I heard reports as high as $50,000
great cartoons. best coverage was the bodies laying on the ground and not fuzzed out
Islam is the result of a cancerous deformity that has been allowed to spread for 1500 years. The faith of the simpleton. Islam sis the bastard child of Judaism and Christianity. An offspring that should have been a late term abortion
I’d buy a book with a couple hundred of the best cartoons in it.
i would definitely buy that
I would too!
Well they wanted to do a remake of the show The Munsters . But Herman Munters part was hard to fill were he is stupid because of the dead brain and long face. Glad to see John Kerry has FUTURE after the state department.
But to be honest he didn’t do anything for my state of mass and now he’s not doing anything for the country seems work is too much for him.
I really wish someone at “Mad Magazine” would take up the cause. But that would require true courage, so that’s not going to happen.
I am so proud of all the organizers and participants of the “Draw Mohammmed” event.
What will it take to wake foolish people up? Islam only recognizes it own beliefs -NOTHING else matters. Laws, rules, regulations, customs/practices…..all must be set aside for the maniacal doctrines of that fake so called religion.
I read in the UK that if Miliband becomes PM he will institute laws making criticizing Islam a hate crime. How long before Cair and their goons push for that here?
They would but they’d have to get the First Amendment overturned first and even Dougie Hooper knows he can’t do that. Sadly, the UK has no such amendment.
“Any fair-minded person with journalistic experience will admit that during this war official censorship has not been particularly irksome. We have not been subjected to the kind of totalitarian ‘co-ordination’ that it might have been reasonable to expect. The press has some justified grievances, but on the whole the Government has behaved well and has been surprisingly tolerant of minority opinions. The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary.”
– George Orwell
Go Jump off a cliff
Make me, raghead. Why are you living off the welfare state of Britain instead of in an islamic hellhole of your own?
What that are doing is something Geert Wilders in his book “Marked for Death” calls “Lawfare” or using our laws against us and using the law to destroy the life and /or business of anyone that says or publishes something against Islam , that CAIR determins is Islamaphobic or disrespects Islam or Muhammed. CAIR will use the law to sue people and they go broke trying to defend themselves, of if they give up then CAIR has wona a victory for Islam.
This is happening hundreds of times all across America. Anywhere there is a community of muslims CAIR tries to establish a branch. And if it isnt CAIR it is another pro Muslim organization.
All the muslims going college and getting law degrees are encouraged to work for organizations like this or Pro Islam lawyer groups.
These pro Muslim organizations actively seek out cases that that can use to promote Islam, encouraging and/or paying muslims to sue non muslims. All inorder to promote islam, ( For America to slowly become more and more acustomed to the Islamic laws and things like the beards, clothing, mosques etc) and to establish a presedent, out law is partially based on precedents. And every time CAIR wins, that establishes a presedent in that particualr circumstance.Muslim lawyer says ” so you see, Your Honor, in the case of Muslim verses Kuffar, the case was decided in favor of Muslim, so there is a precedent that Muslim win in this circumstance.”
Bosch Fawstin denies WSJ claim that he has gone into hiding.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/afdijihad-watch-muhammad-cartoon-contest-winner-bosch-fawstin-goes-into-hiding
I just added the update.
It was to be expected. Luckily, as he says, he’s used to life as a hermit although he’ll never feel 100% safe. It’s the price to pay.
Who’d have thought that we’d quite so quickly see ourselves as Nazi Germany? Who’d have imagined that just as the few good citizens of that country hid the Jews, Americans would be called upon to create hiding places for their own few who spoke out for freedom and this so close to Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor heroes who sacrificed all to protect those freedoms? Well, here I am. If any one of these participants needs a safe haven, they’re more than welcome access to my home for as long as they need safe harbor. They’ll be safe here. Boni, if you know anyone in need, let me know. This is my generation’s Lexington and Concord and coming quickly upon us ….Independence Day! We Won’t Be Shaken!
His art is fantastic, and I pray for his well being and safety.
It’s expected of the savages to react like……SAVAGES!!!!!!!!!! I hope that this beautiful/courageous man Bosch Fawstin keeps safe and away from the brutes and that we can kill millions of them soon so this young man can come out of hiding. I also hope that others will learn from Pamela Geller’s heroic act by doing other “provocative” events to show the assassin retards that NO, THEY AREN’T TELLING US WHAT TO DO IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!
instead of this born again American Patriot Artist being honored for his bravery he is hiding ? instead of Pamela our modern day Paul Revere being respected for her great service as a true Patriot they vilify her ? Pacifists not muslim terrorist are our greater treat to the western world … but then all of us here knew this was always are greater battle … Pacifists and Cowards go hand and hand to slavery , you know who you are we know who you are … Freedom Killers
Stay safe, mrs.BNI!
Keep Pamela Geller in your prayers for protection has she has received death threats by ISIS. Voices like her & BNI are vital to inform the American sheeple of the danger of Islam
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/isis-calls-for-slaughter-of-pam-geller/
Looks like she’ll have to get 24/7 security now. I doubt that the FBI will investigate these threats. If she were muslim, they’d jump right on it.
I figured the fatwa was already in place. Good luck to him I’m sure there has been one for Ms. Geller for a long time.
Muslims mock Chtistians who see Jesus as God. Yet Muslims worship Mohammed more than their own god.
BNI,
Myself and many others support you and Pam.
Thanks, Raymond.
Love ALL the cartoons!! 🙂
Here is one of posts by Bosch Fawstin. All I can say is: Brilliant!
I think muslims want him dead not just because of cartoons…
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/
One of the best, truthful and comprehensive articles out there to read. I hope everyone who sees your post does read it and pass along.
From the link http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/my-name-is-bosch-and-im-a-recovered-muslim/
Bush saying “Islam is peace” shortly after 9/11 gave the enemy a gift they couldn’t have foreseen. Here was the one man who was charged to defend America from their attack and here he was defending the very ideology that motivated the attackers.
When it comes to war, it’s a moral imperative to find out the truth, to tell the truth and to act on the truth.
And so a big part of why nearly 3,000 victims of jihad on 9/11 haven’t been avenged is because of respect for religion, even for a religion that calls for our destruction…….
The bagged rickets infested one’s MO (sic) is more stealth jehad penetration of the infidel homelands using the CAIR ‘death by a thousand daily abuses of infidel freedom of speech’ Koran think attacks. That would leave only about a million truly devout submitted and committed to death Mohomaden ideologues actually threatening artistic expression. Remember not all Muslims are submitted – yet.
Qur’an:8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate
them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”
The deception is enormous. Muslims want people to believe that non-Muslims are murdered only for drawing cartoons.
The truth is that over a period of 1,400 years, hundreds of millions of non-Muslim innocents have been barbarically mass murdered by Muslims for the SOLE reason they don’t worship the bloodthirsty Muslim death god.
Turkish Muslim fiends are extremely proud of their barbaric genocide of Armenian Christian innocents and CELEBRATE it. Bloodthirsty Turkish Muslim savages lust after another satanic genocide of Christians.
http://armenianweekly.com
Banners Celebrating Genocide Displayed in Turkey. ISTANBUL (A.W.)—Anti-Armenian banners celebrating the Armenian
Genocide have begun to appear around Turkey and, on Feb. 22, two protests were held under the banner of “Demonstrations Condemning the Khojali Genocide and Armenian Terror,” in the Kadikoy and Beyoglu districts in Istanbul.
Some protesters chanted anti-Armenian slogans, while others invoked the name of Ogun Samast, the ultra-nationalist youth who gunned down Agos Editor Hrant Dink in 2007.
The banners celebrating the Armenian Genocide were spotted in different parts of the country. In the southwest province of Mugla, a banner declared,
“We celebrate the 100th anniversary of our country being cleared of Armenians. We are proud of our glorious ancestors.”
http://armenianweekly.com/2015/02/23/celebrating-genocide/
Horrifying pics of the Armenian genocide:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/04/10/kudos-to-kim-and-khloe-kardashian-for-bringing-attention-to-something-actually-important-for-a-change
All I see is T-Shirt material….
Hey Bonni; Anything you like, specifically?
I know that I’ve seen targets showing up. Not for sale to the public but private entrepreneurs. Definitely a market for them. Would love a jacket with the winning cartoon on the back, posters to nail up on campus, airport entrances and every state capitol and major news broadcast office lobby everywhere. Apparently they didn’t see the whole thing because they’re only reporting the half of it. They’re the ones who are inciting, same as in the Trayvon Martin shooting, Michael Brown, now Baltimore. When a mayor orders police to stand down and give protesters space to destroy private property and issues that order publicly, that’s incitement, drawing a political cartoon is as old as papyrus and henna.
Bukhari:V4B52N220 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been made victorious with terror.'”
I’m very sad that Bosch has been driven into hiding by Muslim immigrants. Please God, protect him! His life is in great danger. Who would have dreamt that before Muslims were massively imported into our civilised Western nations that people would have to go into hiding from Muslims, for drawing cartoons? It’s only one of the terrible consequences of importing Muslims.
Muslims say they want to murder infidels because they draw cartoons of Islam’s creator. This is another deception. In Denmark, non-Muslims are spat upon, beaten, and have stones thrown at them by Muslims for the SOLE reason they are infidels.
Non-Muslims are violently attacked, barbarically raped and savagely murdered all over Europe and Britain by Muslims for the SOLE reason they are infidels. These terrible acts against non-Muslim innocents are commanded by the bloodthirsty Quran.
John Kerry describes this as a beautiful religion. People can only wonder what does Kerry do behind closed doors?
Western leaders and media have a moral obligation to explain these facts of which they are fully aware of. The traitors refuse to tell the truth about Islam and continue to massively import Muslims who are commanded by the Quran to wage violent jihad forever and conquer all nations.
Our Western leaders are NOT ignorant or naive about Islam as some people mistakenly think. They know that massively importing Muslims will result in huge civil wars in our countries. Rivers of blood will flow in our streets.
Sweden is being destroyed. A low intensity civil war has already started.
And the U.K. is about to join Swedistan if advance polls are anything to go on; this morning on the news I heard cameron and milliband are leading–neck and neck, UKIP way back.
Are the Brits about to do a ‘Sweden’ and vote for more of the same?
Looks like it.
And talking of elections, the sky fell in Alberta yesterday—after 44 years the Tories were turfed out, and the (usually ‘also ran’) N.D.P streaked to a majority government! Where are you, Don? (Laird)
RIP UK.
Islam itself threatens him. The koran threatens him. Anyone who buys into islam is protecting the bully ideology of islam. Islam is barbaric and has no place in the modern world. It is responsible for the violence. Blame the bully not the receivers of violence. Fawstin is a hero. As are all the people who try to educate the masses as to what islam truly is about. Islam is evilness. The way to fight evilness is with truth.
Not as big a target as Rushdie or Wilder but definitely on hit lists now due to all the publicity. Nothing new for him though. He was on Fox news and he’s been at this for a while. He’s a brave American who should be applauded and not vilified by the left. He’s another voice capable of seeing through the liberal PC shroud and calls Islam what it is.
Bosch has reported on Twitter that he has not “gone into hiding” as inaccurately reported in the WSJ. Here’s the link to his blog:
http://fawstin.blogspot.com/
If I have the facts accurately I must extend my congratulations to the Garland Police Officer who promptly put an end to the Islamist attack on the Garland Contest. The terrorists were armed with AK-47s with drum mags. Which hold 100 rounds. This officer recognized the danger and took the two terrorists out promptly. They had body armor and he took them out anyway. Possibly head shots. With his pistol. Great shooting. Those hours at the range practicing certainly paid off. For the good guys. I don’t know his carry in this case but many police departments, nationally, use the GLOCK 40 caliber. In any case fast, accurate work. My kudos to this man.
Tom
I am not surprised the nutbag Muslims are issuing death threats but I am greatly disappointed in the cowardly (particularly conservative) media reaction. These are the people who should be the most vocal about protecting freedom of speech.
I’m not sure if the image link I posted below will appear but some (unknown) commenter decided to invert the Isis flag and look what he found. ha!
https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2018/2703/original.jpg
Yes, we can see it. LOL
If we want to beat the enemy then we have to engage the enemy.
Obama will not engage the enemy.
Pamela Geller just did.
He says the WSJ headline is inaccurate and he’s not in hiding:
https://twitter.com/BoschFawstin/status/595762558939832321
Don’t worry, Islam is a religion of peace. And the shootings in Texas didn’t happen this week. And I’m the Queen of the Universe.
I wish I could say that they would be safe if they moved to Australia, but sadly not.
That is the definition of an oxymoron….’moderate muslim’. Actually, moron describes them pretty well also.
Bosch, you are not on your own. We are all with you.
A long time ago on “draw Mohammed day” I drew Mohammed and posted my drawing on facebook. I didn’t get any death threats though…. Guess my drawing wasn’t popular enough 🙁
I get the feeling that it’s time to have another draw Mohammed day where social media is flooded with Mohammed drawings.
This is truly unfortunate that BOSCH FAWSTIN, AN EX-MUSLIM, now has to go into hiding because Muslims now want to kill him for Drawing a Cartoon exposing the truth about Islam and Muhammed.
This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of how Islam’s Muslims, the bloody butchers react.
Yet, THEY would have NO problems with Blaspheming and Degrading ANY Non Islamic Faith or Philosophy.
HOWEVER, Muslims DO create “Satire” and “Cartoons”, even of themselves, as BOSCH FAWSTIN “Cartoon” illustrates, as long as it is NOT of Muhammed, in the Charlie Hebdo sense, as there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis, from Iraqis poking fun at the Islamic State (Isis) to Saudi standup comics, and Palestinians grinning and bearing life under a corrupt government and Israeli occupation..
Some Example Links:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/12/laughing-in-face-of-danger-satire-in-muslim-world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2195459/Citizen-Khan-Offensive-Racist-No-just-funny–oh-true.html
http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/hadith_humor/default.html
Surely all the moderate, peaceful muslims would not be the ones threatening him, would they?
Yes, the most peaceful ones, and we are mistaken… they only want to Congratulate him on his win!! Lol