One big thing that confuses about Islam and perhaps someone can explain it.

[Blues Man]

Cartoons mocking Muhammed would create a problem.

They shouldn't. Muhammed was just a man

 

[Theowl32]

Muslim revere all the prophets.. Moses, Abraham, Jesus...

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Why is considered blasphemy when someone has the unmitigated gall to draw a picture of Muhammad but isn't considered blasphemy when a photo or drawing of the Ayatollah is shown.

Should we see video of Muslims pulling their hair out and screaming in despair when the Ayatollah died?

The question is the term blasphemy is reserved for God alone and when any Muslim calls any picture of the prophet (particular prophet not any other ones) is considered blasphemy and that person or persons need to be killed.

Does it or does it not say that in their book?

 

[surada]

They shouldn't. Muhammed was just a man

Not in context of the broader cultural norms.

Islamic art - Wikipedia

Islamic art - Wikipedia

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Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced in the Islamic world. Islamic art is difficult to characterize because it covers a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, including Islamic architecture, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic miniaturepainting, Islamic glass, Islamic pottery, and textile arts such as carpets and embroidery. It comprises both religious and secular art forms. Religious art is repr…

CalligraphyPaintingRugs and carpetsArchitectureCeramicsGlassMetalwork

Calligraphic design is omnipresent in Islamic art, where, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations, including Qur'anic verses, may be included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles and metalwork, and most painted miniatures include some script, as do many buildings.

Use of Islamic calligraphy in architecture extended significantly outside of Islamic territories; one notable exa…

 

[surada]

Why is considered blasphemy when someone has the unmitigated gall to draw a picture of Muhammad but isn't considered blasphemy when a photo or drawing of the Ayatollah is shown.

Should we see video of Muslims pulling their hair out and screaming in despair when the Ayatollah died?

The question is the term blasphemy is reserved for God alone and when any Muslim calls any picture of the prophet (particular prophet not any other ones) is considered blasphemy and that person or persons need to be killed.

Does it or does it not say that in their book?

You'd have to ask a Shia.

 

[Theowl32]

You'd have to ask a Shia.

I have and they walked away

 

[Viktor]

One thing of many things that confuse me in regards to Islam among their followers. Muhammad by their own admission isn't God. The term blasphemy is a term reserved only for God. So, why are they claiming it is blasphemy if anyone even depicts Muhammad in a picture of any kind but not any of their other Muslim warlords?

Meaning people can show pictures, photographs or paintings of the Sultans or Ayatollah etc and no problem.

You can even criticize them, but if anyone paints a painting or drawing or speaks out against Muhammad it is considered blasphemy.

That makes little sense and that reaction of exalting Muhammad as God (which they all say he wasn't) is a blasphemy unto itself.

How am I wrong?

Christianity and judaism respect human life. Islam does not.

 

[Blues Man]

Not in context of the broader cultural norms.

Islamic art - Wikipedia

Islamic art - Wikipedia

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Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced in the Islamic world. Islamic art is difficult to characterize because it covers a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, including Islamic architecture, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic miniaturepainting, Islamic glass, Islamic pottery, and textile arts such as carpets and embroidery. It comprises both religious and secular art forms. Religious art is repr…

CalligraphyPaintingRugs and carpetsArchitectureCeramicsGlassMetalwork

Calligraphic design is omnipresent in Islamic art, where, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations, including Qur'anic verses, may be included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles and metalwork, and most painted miniatures include some script, as do many buildings.

Use of Islamic calligraphy in architecture extended significantly outside of Islamic territories; one notable exa…

Mortals are mortals gods are gods.

Mortals are not to be deified in any way

 

[surada]

Mortals are mortals gods are gods.

Mortals are not to be deified in any way

In thier culture Muhammed is not deified and portraits are not part of their art culture. Why can't you get that?

 

[surada]

Christianity and judaism respect human life. Islam does not.

What an incredibly stupid statement.

 

[irosie91]

You live in NYC, rosie?

MYOB

 

[Blues Man]

In thier culture Muhammed is not deified and portraits are not part of their art culture. Why can't you get that?

But he is considered more than a mere mortal

 

[surada]

But he is considered more than a mere mortal

Nope.. Muhammed is not considered divine.. Muslims don't believe that God has children. They also do not believe that blood sacrifice ameliorates sin.

 

[irosie91]

Nope.. Muhammed is not considered divine.. Muslims don't believe that God has children. They also do not believe that blood sacrifice ameliorates sin.

wrong again-----the MOSQUE teaching is----if you murder for allah----all sins are forgiven. I know of no OTHER religion that "believes that blood sacrifice
"ameliorates sin"------many other religions consider
the "donation" of food stuffs so "GOD" or "gods"
a ritual of a kind of compensation---in reality it is
an economic issue

 

[Blues Man]

Nope.. Muhammed is not considered divine.. Muslims don't believe that God has children. They also do not believe that blood sacrifice ameliorates sin.

Yeah they'll just kill people who insult Muhammed

They certainly act like Muhammed is more than just a mere human

 

[surada]

Yeah they'll just kill people who insult Muhammed

They certainly act like Muhammed is more than just a mere human

Nope.. Not all ....

 

[Blues Man]

Nope.. Not all ....

Yes they do.

In fact Muslims are more offended if a person criticizes Muhammad than if a person denies the existence of their god

 

[irosie91]

Not in context of the broader cultural norms.

Islamic art - Wikipedia

Islamic art - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced in the Islamic world. Islamic art is difficult to characterize because it covers a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, including Islamic architecture, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic miniaturepainting, Islamic glass, Islamic pottery, and textile arts such as carpets and embroidery. It comprises both religious and secular art forms. Religious art is repr…

CalligraphyPaintingRugs and carpetsArchitectureCeramicsGlassMetalwork

Calligraphic design is omnipresent in Islamic art, where, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, religious exhortations, including Qur'anic verses, may be included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles and metalwork, and most painted miniatures include some script, as do many buildings.

Use of Islamic calligraphy in architecture extended significantly outside of Islamic territories; one notable exa…

but muslims have NO PROBLEM defiling the religious symbols of non muslims in gross and
obscene manner

 

[DudleySmith]

They don't depict humans in their art. They prefer abstract geometric art for the most part, at least in the ME. They have some great tile and porcelain mosaics in many of their mosques,

Islamic mosiacs in mosques at DuckDuckGo

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[foggedinn]

It is my understanding that Muslims accept the books of the Law as holy writ.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Exodus 20 v 4

They seem to take scripture more literally than most Christian denominations.

 

[surada]

wrong again-----the MOSQUE teaching is----if you murder for allah----all sins are forgiven. I know of no OTHER religion that "believes that blood sacrifice
"ameliorates sin"------many other religions consider
the "donation" of food stuffs so "GOD" or "gods"
a ritual of a kind of compensation---in reality it is
an economic issue

In Islam "God does not eat nor is he fed".