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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][b]The Koran says that one cannot draw Muhammad[/b]. This prohibition applies to Muslims, no? Why would others have to fulfill the obligation of someone else's religion? [/quote]

The Qur'an doesn't say such a thing....[/quote]

It doesn't matter. It is prohibited in the religion, regardless of the source. My point still stands. [/quote]

Yeh, it actually does matter when you are spreading fallacies on the internet!

[quote]There's no part in the Quran where Muhammad says that images of him are forbidden. But the issue is mentioned in the hadith, a secondary text that many Muslims consult for instruction on how to live a good life.
The theological underpinnings of the ban can be traced back to the very beginnings of Islam in Arabia, according to John Esposito, a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University. Early followers of Muhammad held themselves apart from their Christian neighbors, whom they believed to be too deeply attached to icons and images. The ban is also informed by one of the central tenets of Islam -- the idea that the Prophet Muhammad was a man, and not a god.
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But the so-called "Muslim world" is not a monolith, and in fact, faithful Muslims have created images of the prophet for centuries.
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Artwork featuring Muhammad had become less common by the 1800s, although many examples still exist in Iran and Turkey. While the practice isn’t explicitly prohibited in the Quran, a consensus gradually developed among Muslim scholars that images of the prophet just aren’t acceptable.The turning point came in 2005, according to Gruber, when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of cartoons depicting the prophet. Muslim leaders around the world came forward to categorically condemn all images of Muhammad. Unlike the paintings lovingly created by devout Muslim artists in past centuries, some of the Danish cartoons, which were widely reprinted in Western media during the controversy, were unmistakably meant to provoke.
“It was a reactionary, traditionalist response to an event that was considered extraordinarily disrespectful to Muslim sensibilities,” Gruber said of the outcry in Muslim communities. “The problem with the images is not so much that they are images but that they are disrespectful images.”[/quote]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-muhammad-image_n_6432370.html?utm_hp_ref=religion[/quote]

Oh so basically, it doesn't even say in the holy book that depictions are forbidden. The cartoonists died because a bunch of reactionary Imams have been stoking anger and hatred in an entire population of desperate dimwits on the basis of personal opinion. Clergy--you can always count on them to get people killed to further their personal agenda.[/quote]

"A bunch"?? Try millions. Perhaps a billion worldwide.

Boko Haram
Al Caida 
The Islamic State
Hamas - a designated terrorist organization that backs implementation of Sharia law
Radical Chechens who inspired the Boston bombing
Radicals in England who recruited Richard Reid aka the shoe bomber
Radicals in Spain who bombed the Atocha train station
Radicals in Germany who hosted the 9/11 murderers

And dozens of other groups whose numbers total in the thousands, millions. Not to mention their sympathizers who see UBL as some sort of twited hero.

Are these radicals - do you believe they are not here? That they are in far off lands - therefore of no threat?  Look where US Major Hasan Nidal was inspired to radicalism: houses of worship in Marland and Virginia.  Look who's Imam was killed in a Predator drone strike in 
Yemen (that same mosque in Virginia).

Let's be fair here, but also open and accurate:

I believe most of our world's Muslims are decent caring people; as an American I welcome them to come here and enjoy our freedom of religion.  All I ask is that they obey our laws and tolerate others as we tolerate them.

But world-wide, radical Islam is not limited to fringe groups; it is a very threatening group with an increasing number of sympathizers.[/quote]

In apopulation of a billion, those are a tiny fraction of a percent.[/quote]

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