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Originally Posted by Wakar
Drawing pictures/cartoons of someone who has never had a photograph taken of themselves throughtout their livelyhood will stir up emotions from people, especially their followers.
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That's an over-generalisation that apparently ONLY applies to Islam. Furthermore, I don't think photography had been invented in Mr M's time, so that point is moot too.
Personally, I think that the dogmatic leap to go from considering any image of God/Prophet as not matching their glory, to making is a capital offence is rather a big one.
I don't accept the notion that the faith of Islam is in any way damaged by these images, unlike the ones in the media over recent days, which have damaged Islam greatly, possibly irrevocably.
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Originally Posted by Wakar
To make matters even worse he was made to look like a terrorist.
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This is where Muslims are failing to understand the meaning of satire. The terrorism being referred to IS clearly inspired by the terrorists' idea of what Islam is about. The terrorism is perpetrated with direct reference to the religion of Islam, by the terrorists - it is THEY who made the connection in the first place, so why is it so terrible when other do?
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Originally Posted by Wakar
Yes Islam does say not to fight start wars etc but then again you will always get the sour apples in every religion.
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As there are in many religions, yet the 'few' extremists that people say are doing all the protesting seem to number quite highly in some places.
And I also think there is a big difference between a few 'sour apples', and large crowds of madmen baying for death and attacking and burning buildings.
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Originally Posted by Wakar
How would people of reacted if that same picture had been made by a muslim/asian person showing Jesus, Guru Nanak, Rama-Sita etc instaed??
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Nothing like anything we've seen recently, if any response had been made at all. You'd have to cross the boundaries of decency a LONG way before we'd get anything like as worked up about it.
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How can the French say that when they banned all religeous symbols from schools!! Now thats double standards in itself.
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Nonsense. The ban on religious symbols extends to all faiths, and isn't an attack on any faith. Again, it's mostly the Muslims that had to go make a big issue out of it, including more of the 'sour apples' being rather extreme.
The picture I get is that if Muslims/Islam chooses to be offended by anything, then the standard response is to burn the offending object, if possible, or else burn an effigy of the offending person (I'm sure they'd burn the actual person, given a chance), and usually accompanied by violence from people who more often than not hide their faces, since they KNOW that what they are doing is nothing but wanton violence and criminal in almost every country they do it.
Now we're seeing attacks on persons and property in no way directly responsible for the alledged offence caused. That is religious/racial hatred - something the Muslims complain about plenty. I believe this demonstrates that Islam is fundamentally NOT tolerant of other faiths - at least not the Islam than men have stolen from God. If there is anything left of Islam as God would have it, then please tell me where it exists.