Cartoon Mohammed

[therealUT]

"Mohammed overwhelmed by fanatics"

"It's hard to be loved by *******s."

Not the same quality as the Danish cartoons.

Included in the package is an editorial defending freedom of expression by Tewfik Allal, from a group of secular Muslims.

Another French paper reprints cartoons - Blog - The Arabist

I look forward to reading the editorial.

 

[utvolpj]

yeah the others were much better. Any publicity is good publicity right?

 

[YorkVol]

Now you've done it.

 

[golfballs]

good think TRUT isn't showing his face in his avi

 

[n_huffhines]

VN is going down.

 

[DynamiteMcGhee]

We're so screwed.

 

[PKT_VOL]

France is closing twenty embassies in the region because of this .

 

[DC_Vol]

There will be a body count.

 

[MG1968]

Hooray, religion of peace!

 

[tim]

VN is going down.

They better have a gaggle of those virgins on stand by if they come this way. Yeah, I'm tough.

 

[Vol Main]

The cartoon strikes me as tragically accurate. Islam rose from a society in which pagan idolatry dominated religious concepts. Worshipers of stone idols murdered Mohamad's early followers, with the intention of killing them all. The idolators would have succeeded in that goal, if the early Muslims hadn't fought back. So there is a very strong Islamic prohibition against idolatry. Idolators were the mortal enemies of their religion, in terms of religious belief but also in terms of life and death. The purpose of prohibiting images of Mohamad was to prevent such items from becoming objects of worship, to prevent people from worshiping icons of Mohamad, which would in effect be a form of pagan idolatry. Muslims did not want Mohamad to become some kind of god in people's minds.

The people rioting and murdering over published images and alleged disrespect appear to be doing something very near to that, elevating Mohamad into someone irreproachably above humanity. From what little I know of the man, he objected to people thinking of him that way.

 

[PKT_VOL]

Religious people practicing hypocrisy in the name of their religious idols? Shocker.

 

[theFallGuy]

Hooray, religion of peace!

it's just a handful of extremists, this is not indicative of the whole religion.

 

[hog88]

The cartoon strikes me as tragically accurate. Islam rose from a society in which pagan idolatry dominated religious concepts. Worshipers of stone idols murdered Mohamad's early followers, with the intention of killing them all. The idolators would have succeeded in that goal, if the early Muslims hadn't fought back. So there is a very strong Islamic prohibition against idolatry. Idolators were the mortal enemies of their religion, in terms of religious belief but also in terms of life and death. The purpose of prohibiting images of Mohamad was to prevent such items from becoming objects of worship, to prevent people from worshiping icons of Mohamad, which would in effect be a form of pagan idolatry. Muslims did not want Mohamad to become some kind of god in people's minds.

The people rioting and murdering over published images and alleged disrespect appear to be doing something very near to that, elevating Mohamad into someone irreproachably above humanity. From what little I know of the man, he objected to people thinking of him that way.

Islam rose because a trader/merchant was losing money with the tribes fighting. Got to give it to Mohamad, he was one smart dude.

 

[YorkVol]

it's just a handful of extremists, this is not indicative of the whole religion.

No, it is hard to see, but they are in front of an Apple Store waiting for their new iPhone 5s.

 

[PKT_VOL]

lulz York.