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پیر 6 فروری 2006Monday, February 06, 2006
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad Cartoons
If you came here looking for my thoughts on the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad that Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, published in September and that were republished in several other newspapers this year as protests by Muslims mount, you have come to the wrong place. I won’t consider getting upset over freaking cartoons. As Aziz says:
“Islam is infinite. They can burn the Qur’an, or insult the Prophet SAW, or outlaw the hijab. But they can never erase the delicate calligraphy of Deen upon the muslim’s soul. Our religion is infinitely greater than the sum of their scorn, and as such we have no opinion on their insults as they matter, in the end, not even the tinest whit.”
Thabet of the blog towards God is our journey has a survey of the blogs as well as his own commentary on this topic. Also, read Chapati Mystery.
Posted by Zack at February 6, 2006 3:14 PM in International Affairs , Islam and Other Religions
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Posted by: renee (113 comments) at February 7, 2006 11:06 AM
I don’t know, but there are few episodes in South Park that Mohammad has been pictured, along with Jesus, Krishna, and of course Moses.
I think the whole thing is overacting.
Posted by: kianoush (113 comments) at February 7, 2006 11:33 PM
I do not want to be part of any discussion on the subject because, ordinarily thinking, it is futile and, primarily, because Allah has directed Muslims to stay away from such discussion.
In my view, it is not is not new behaviour. Non-believers have been try to desecrate prophets and the holy books right from the start of known history, that is, from the time of Prophet Noah (mpbh).
Posted by: Ajmal (288 comments) at February 8, 2006 4:40 AM
Renee: Aziz is good at such things.
Kianoush: You are correct about South Park.
Posted by: Zack (1734 comments) at February 8, 2006 4:23 PM | PGP Sig
Here is a different perspective and sounds bit right to me.
Posted by: Mariam (8 comments) at February 9, 2006 9:47 PM
I have a hard time understanding the mob mentality of some middle eastern countries. Killing over cartoons doesn’t show tolerance, it shows a backwards thinking, mindless loyality to those that try to force their will on others. any holy book that exists was written by men, God gave us the abiltity to think and have free will don’t claim to do any action of violence on others in the name of God.
Posted by: confused (1 comments) at February 25, 2006 11:35 PM
We all know muslims and arabs are very angry for the extreme injustices,
neocons “jewish elite and their evangelical christian allies” want to channel this anger.
The neocons want civil war between muslims.
sunni vs. shia in iraq, hamas vs. fatah in palestine, arabs vs blacks in darfur and islamic courts vs. war lords in somalia.
This blog should concentrate on that, arabs/muslims should wake up
Posted by: mohamad falastin (1 comments) at September 9, 2006 1:31 AM
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Wow…what a quote… “delicate calligraphy of Deen upon the muslim’s soul” - mashAllah.