Muslims, depictions of Muhammed are frowned upon, but what about the other prophets?
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Great question!\nActually, all of the Prophets are banned from being drawn. This became a "law," if you will, in early Islamic times, when the Prophet Muhammad was prophecizing God's Word. During his times (which notably are much different than our own today) people were deviating from the messages that Jesus and previous prophets had delivered, and had began worshipping images and stone idols representing their gods. Prophet Muhammad declared it forbidden for any believer to posess any type of image or statue so as not to fall into the "trend" of idol worship, as God and ONLY God has the right to be worshipped in Islam. He also made sure that his own image was not even to be depicted, as he made it clear that even Prophets were not to be worshipped in any way. Again, as not to deviate worship from God.
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Sure, Jesus was a prophet and we don't know what he looked like but there are lots 'pictures' of him around and people have played Jesus in movies. I don't think God gets upset about that if you have respect in your heart. I wouldn't want to adhere to a religion where you would be punished or executed for drawing a "likeness" of a prophet.
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The word 'cartoon' is irrelevant in this whole story - it is not the way Mohammed was depicted, but the very fact that he was depicted at all which causes offence to Muslims. There is no easy secular or Christian analogy.\n\nMy own opinion is that any newspaper aimed at a mass or general market should attempt to be sensitive to as many views as possible. Let those who wish to exercise press freedom as an end in itself, simply because they can, be happy with pamphleteering until they can appreciate that with freedom comes responsibility.
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I believe that along with the freedom of speech comes the responsibility to respect other people and their beliefs.  The prophet Mohammed is not the Danish people's prophet to blaspheme, and they should respect Muslim beliefs.  I'm not Muslim, but I try to respect what others believe, because I would hope to get the same respect myself.  It upsets me when people make a mockery of Christ.  If you don't believe, then just leave it alone.
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Muslims have a rule that bans painting any picture of Islam holy men and a caricature of Islam prophet surely brings anger to Muslims so the question is why a danish newspaper has published such a debatable thing.\nI think at the moment we need peace not fights.
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hi :)\nwe muslim don't praise ibrahim and muhammad \nyour information about this is wrong\nwe respect them as prophests who had sent from god(allah) to teach us and rescue us...\nwe only  praise god(allah) in islam \np.s:muhammad and ibrahim and all of prophets are not like you and me..they were choosen to lead us and theach us the way of true life...don't  compare yourself with them
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The Mohammed cartoons did not limit any Muslim person's ability to practice their religion.\n\nMaking images of Mohammed is banned in Islam.  But this prohibition doesn't apply to non-Muslims, even though some Muslims seemed to think it does.\n\nAs a Catholic, I've seen and heard derogatory and offensive things about Catholicism that make the Mohammed cartoons look tame by comparison.  \n\nI think this kind of stuff is highly offensive -- but that's part of living in a society where we have free speech.  It means that occasionally, we have to put up with something offensive.\n\nOffensive anti-Catholic material is, to put it mildly, not what I like to see or read -- but I don't feel it has ever limited my ability to practice my religion.
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This is a Free Country we will speak against Islam if we wanna and if anyone doesn't like it then such a person can go live in one of those Countries where the Koran is the Law.\n\nAnyways Allah is not Yahweh (Jehovah) at all, Allah is in fact satan, so henceforth a demon spoke to Muhammed and thus told Muhammed to claim Jesus was a great Prophet so that while the status of Christ was degraded down, one would be tricked into falling for Islam's lies on account of the idea that if Jesus is at least acknowledge as a Prophet then that makes the satanic religion of Islam look good in some people's eyes.\n\nBut I will not be fooled and if anyone wants to whine a prayer facing Mecca off the top of their lungs about my exercising my Freedom of Speech then be my guest.
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Is it justified to kill people?  A picture is just a picture. I don't think that depicting Jesus wearing a bomb for a hat would disgrace him.  It would be a comment about his followers using bombs in his name, when everyone knows he was a man of peace.  It's called irony.
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GOOD QUESTION!\n\nHowever, even though the Creator has clearly specified that no other way of life is acceptable to Him except Islam (i.e. submission to Him as embodied in the Qur'an and Sunnah), He has also commanded the Muslims to be tolerant of people who espouse other creeds.\n____________________________________________________________\n\n"There is no compulsion in the religion; Truth stands out clear from error; so whoso disbelieves in idols and believes in God, has laid hold of the most firm handle, which cannot break; and God is Hearing, Knowing. Al-Quran (2:256)\n\n"Invite to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preachings, and argue with them in a way that are best and most gracious" (QURAN 16:125)\n\nQuran says in Ch. 109 "Say to those who reject faith. I will not worship what you worship, nor will you worship what I worship. I will not be worshipping what you want me to worship, Nor will you worship that which I worship. To you be your religion, and to me my religion"\n\nQuran says in [6:108] "Revile not ye those whom they call upon besides God, lest they out of spite revile God in their ignorance. Thus have We made alluring to each people its own doings. In the end will they return to their Lord, and We shall then tell them the truth of all that they did."\n\n \nTHERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER SAYINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD PBUH.. IF YOU NEED ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME ...taimur_1984@yahoo.com\nQuran says that we should deal kindly and justly with those who does not fight with us. irrespective of muslim or non-muslim\n"Allah forbids you not, With regard to those who Fight you not for (your) Faith Nor drive you out Of your homes, From dealing kindly and justly With them: For Allah loveth Those who are just.  (The Noble Quran, 60:8)"
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I hope not; comics of christ and others are printed all the time in the u.s. and no one is threatened...press thinks it's fine...now that it's the muslim prophet, they go wild...oh well
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Yes, in the sense that they do not recognize Him as the Messiah.  They bad mouth him and even called Him the bastard child of a Roman soldier with the Virgin Mary..\nThey look at Christ as an outsider and just the son of a carpenter who was crucified for nothing.  They think that their Messiah should come as a conquering hero and an overpowering person, or maybe they think their Messiah should come from within the ranks of their Pharisees or Sanhedrins.  They do not honor and respect God's will that the Messiah should be a role model or the epitome of humility and perfect obedience.\nUnless they recognize Him and accept Him as the Messiah, they wil never, never obtain peace like their counterpart the Islamists who also reject Jesus Christ.
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Islam we honor Jesus (pbah) as a prophet. If more would read a translation of the Quran they would find that we are not that different.
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Speaking as a muslim woman who actually knows what the Quran says and the hadith say, I would say they are just being extreme and pick and choose what to believe in.  In the hadiths, the Prophet (PBUH) always excused insult such as this and would actually be very angry at how the muslims of today are acting.  I say that I know what it says, because I was never taken to a school like they are over there and I never had the posers brainwash me.  They brainwash these people and put their own interpretations into their minds while ignoring the parts that go against what THEY feel.  They like to scream about having rights over women, but they ignore the second part of that very same sentence that says women have the same rights over men.  They are just hypocrites.  They disgust me and make me angry that this is the face they want to show the world.  It pisses me off.
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The insensitive cartoonists have a right to print it.  The muslims have a right to protest it.  I wish people would show a little more repsect towards other people and not try to deliberately offend them.  I am not muslim and have no respect for their religion. But as one human being to another, i respect their right to believe it and would not make a mockery of something that may be sacred to them.  I would excpect the same respect.
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You are free to believe that Mohammed (PBUH) was a prophet or not.\n\nBut there's a rule we should never forget in discussions.\n\nDISAGREEING WITH EACH OTHER DOESN'T MEAN NOT RESPECTING EACH OTHER. \n\nPeace be upon you all.
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It is very much true that both Jesus, as well as, Mary were muslim. A muslim does not mean that he should necessarily be an Arab or an asian. \nA muslim may be any one, irrespective of his race, nation, clan, etc. who does not follow his own will or desire , but totally surrenders before the will of Almighty God. The first man, Adam, who was the first prophet of God also, was appointed to convey to his descendants the way of life, which God designed for human being.\nThousands of prophets, including Noah, Abraham, Issac, Ishmael, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, John, Jesus and the last one, Muhammad were appointed the same way by God all over the world, during different times, who all had the same message, same mission.\nThese prophets, beside other aspects of life, had explained what should be the dress code and appearance code of a believer or a muslim. It never meant that particular style or cloth's cutting or particular type of beard should be adopted, but the dress should be simple, neither extravagant nor exposing directly or indirectly any or all prohibited body parts, as defined by God. The beard should be such that the man may be recognized that he is from the group of believers.\nAlas! the people of book have every thing in the book but do not follow deliberately. May God guide them to the right path! Amen.