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Old 10-01-2015, 10:15   #214
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Re: Mass shooting in Paris

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Originally Posted by techguyone View Post
I was genuinely curious & mystified as to why it's bad to depict Mohammed, here's what I found.

it's not bad at all in the Qur’an.. BUT Sunni Muslims (the majority) also follow something called hadiths, which are the next best thing after the Qur’an and in there it says. any pictures of people or animals, especially in homes is prohibited.

Ok so I'm more mystified than before, apparently if you're a devout (Sunni) Muslim, no family pics etc at home or you're in trouble.




links: http://www.answering-islam.org/Muhammad/pictures.html
The reason is to prevent followers worshipping Mohamed as a god ,in Christianity Idolatry is banned and Muslims see pictures of Mohamed as much the same thing
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