What exactly is wrong with a picture drawn of the prophet... other than the fact that it says it's wrong in your scripture? Like what justification is provided for this?last_chance said:
yuo dont even know him . you nver met him , you dotn know his personality. yuo just go by what sais in a book.sly fly said:
This is said becuase...well..it is the ruling of god. Why? So that we don't picture him when we pray so that we don't start to worship him like the christians and catholics worship jesus...it was to be a counter measure against this from re-occuring. And to emphasis that he is just a man that got hte message and had it written down. This was all his duty was, to pass the message on. Now there is the book, we read it to get the samse message, but this doens't mean we don't respect the Prophet. Muslims do highly. We know of what he did so that we can be as good as he was.Not-That-Bright said:
Well no... not really. I'd like to also know why muslims don't get pissed over people not praying on griday, however feel that they need to enforce this ridiculous 'YOU MUST NOT DRAW THE PROPHET' law on everyone... what is the justification?
Alot of things are the ruling of God but you don't attempt to enforce these on other people.
Ok but surely it's quite the stretch to imagine that his picture appearing in a comic could lead to people worshipping him as a god. By the way I do not see how not knowing what he looks like stops people from worshipping him, after all you do not know what allah looks like... you worship her/him/it/whatever....
i am deeply offended by this depiction of howard. i idolise him so much and love him more then my family, even though i never met him. The great job he is doing for our country makes my non-gay love for howard blossom.Captain Gh3y said:
So don't draw likenesses of him. Noone's forcing you to look at danish cartoons of him. If you want to live in a country where mocking religious figures is prohibited move to one of the failed muslim states.Salima said:
It's a moral justification. Like I said before a line should be drawn. Other than the fact that the prophet (saw) means alot to muslims - making fun of anything in religion buddha, Jesus and so on, is just not on. People believe in things and feel very hurt when they are mocked and ridiculed. If I didn't believe in religion ie. if i was an atheist I wouldn't want someone to make fun of what I've decided to be. I'd want them to respect and tolerate that decision. Ok sure, it doesnt mean one cannot discuss, argue or critique another religion for educational purposes. In regaurds to drawing the prophet...its a form of ridiculing an aspect of Islam as well as hurting millions of people around the world. I mean out of all the things to ridicule or mock (politicians, celebrities, animals, educational system, and heaps more) why does religion something that means alot to people have to be mocked.Not-That-Bright said:
Say someone in your family dies, do people laugh and make jokes about it 'for humour'? That would be incredibly rude. Humour shouldn't apply to everything, some things are just too sensitive to people.Not-That-Bright said:
No it is on. What is not on is merely accepting everyone's crazy mis-guided beliefs and preventing all criticism.
Go ahead, make fun of atheism... I think you'll find the believers respond quite differently to those with religious belief.
Alot of things that you do ridicule different people's beliefs... There are some crazy people out there with beliefs just as justified as yours and I can bet you that you probably ridicule them. For example, Breatharians - people whom believe they can live off air.
Because when people really care about something it is much funnier to mock it. You will find this in most comedies.
Thats just it though. You're trying to impose your morals, when no harm is being done. no injuries, no loss of property. this isn't free speech. should i be able to stop you from saying anything that i might find offensive? who are you to tell me that religion is supposed to be out-of-bounds, but things that i believe strongly in are not?
all those things are mocked regularly, thats exactly why we should mock religion. By the way christianity is mocked all the time, it seems these cartoons are making muslims uncomfortable , because they have a hint of truth that u try to suppress, so your religion doesnt seem even more fabricated and bullshit.last_chance said:
It is a different matter to ridicule someones relative that they care about in a sensitive time and to satire someone's belief.
Your entire religion offends me.
I dont get pissed that you dont pray because i respect whatever it is you believe in. As for the 'drawing the prophet' that leads to ridiculing, which leads to people being hurt and la - di - dah you get the idea.Not-That-Bright said:
I get hurt when people mention Islam. I don't go around threatening to kill people though.last_chance said:
As for Islam, that leads to 'drawing the prophet' that leads to ridiculing, which leads to people being hurt and la-di-dah, you get the idea.
There is a huge fad of 'jesus lol' drawings out there on the internet... Jesus has been mocked for centuries without much of this violence. Things I believe have also been ridiculed without me getting so upset... However you claim that because this is from your religious text it is somehow a special belief that should be free from ridicule?
