Which is a greater blasphemy against God and the Prophet (pbuh)? Killing in his name or publishing a cartoon?
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It is a greater blasphemy to sin against God by killing in his name.  It literally gives the name of your God and your prophet a bad reputation among outsiders of your faith.  If these injustices were not done in the name of Allah and the Prophet, there would be little for cartoonists to make cartoons about!\n\nI am so happy to see you, a Muslim, making this point!  Thank you and I hope that you can get your message across to others in Islam and I hope that you can spread the message that terrorists are doing more harm to Islam than anything else.
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-From the source quoted below...\n\n"Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear."\n\n"While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized. "\n\n<snip>\n\nIt's also hypothsised that the situation was inflamed by the addition of 3 images that were NOT printed by the Danish newspaper.\n\n"Yet when a delegation of Danish imams went to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars, the imams openly distributed a booklet that showed 15 images -- not only the original 12 cartoons, but three fraudulent anti-Mohammed depictions that were much more offensive than the ones published in Denmark. It is now thought that these three bonus images are what ignited the outrage in the Muslim world. The newspaper Ekstra Bladet obtained a copy of the booklet and presented the three offensive images on its Web site (though not in an easy-to-find place). All look like low-quality photocopies."\n\nIt comes down to a clash of cultures and an intolerance of world views. Perhaps with a little provocation thrown in. I can't explain the level of violence though. Seems pretty extreme.
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Try not to confuse terrorists and Muslims. If you recall, we had a supposedly "Christian ex-US Military, Operation Desert Storm VETERAN" who blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma. He, much like the filth that flew planes into buildings in Sept. 2001, deserve the same thing, they are one in the same.\n\nThis isn't a Christian vs. Muslim thing...or it shouldn't be, but with sentiment like what you are writing, and what the idiots protesting a freaking cartoon, we are all being led down a dangerous path.\n\nThink before you write things.
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he would die\nend of cartoon strip
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It is not simply the cartoons that started this violence.  Sure, they were the flashpoint, but this has been building up for years.  Radical muslims hate the western world.  They hate the free speech.  We are two different cultures, and it will be interesting how this will play out.\nI personally think that normal, honest, good natured Muslims, of which 99 percent of Muslims are, should begin to do something about their radical 1 percent brothers.  It's getting old to keep saying "Those are just the extremists that are beheading and bombing."  Well show some damn remorse when it happens, and then teach or kill, whichever the radicals respond to.\nSide note:  Prez Ahmadinejad of Iran blames the Jews for the cartoons.  "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the caricatures showed the "impudence and rudeness" of Western newspapers against the prophet as well as the "maximum resentment of the Zionists (Jews) ruling these countries against Islam and Muslims."  Yup, and the Holocaust didn't happen.
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well it doesnt have anything to do with the cartoon.  the cartoon was published 5 months ago.  it probably has to do with the iranian nuclear ambitions.
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The same reason they make cartoons of anything.  For fun.  I think that the whole uprising and the threats of war are stupid.  Yes, the prophet Muhammad said to his followers that he did not want to be idolized, but the artist is not Muslim and the Muslims didn't draw it.  No harm no foul.  Now they are trying to get back by drawing cartoons of the holocaust.  Like we're going to fly off the handle?  We're not the insane terrorist bombers like the few that reside within the Muslim religion.
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Its matter of respect thats all....\n\nAs the prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h asked us to beleive and reaspct all others religions and thier prophets ... \n\nislam asked us to not be funny at any religion or their prophets so how about our prophet .\n\nso whom did thes funny cartoon ..they didnt show respect for about 1 billion and half muslim...even they know how our prophet means to us .\n\nand there is diffrent between clear ur opinion by free of speach and make funny of somthing u know already its will HURT others . \n\nSO WHY THERE AT THEIR COUNTRY ANY ONE MAKE FUNNY OF THE HOLOCAUST THEY STOP HIM ??? and they send him to jail as they did for alots b4 .\n\nand this what GAT_WAY meant and im sure he didnt try saying it just to make respect for this issue ..bcs some got hurt from it ... but seem alots dont show respect for others as we do for others .\n\nSo its matter of respect and not hurt any one feelings . but think whom did thats he meant to hurt us .. \n\nand i agree with whom said thats not all the denmarkens making funny .. and im sure many of them ,agree its not good and thats hurt others ...but some littel of them have hate for islam and muslims so they do thes things ... and im sure they have thats hate just without any reason more than thats they just hate muslims and dont understand what islam its ...\n\nand by the way ,we dont care if they like us or hate us ... we care just for one thing THATS SHOW RESPECT TO OUR RELIGION AS WE DO FOR THEM AND THIER RELIGIONS & BELIVES .
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Happiness is against the will of Allah...dont blasphem him again...he gets very angry.
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Apparently, it is a violation of the religious edict to depict the prophet.  It's an outcry of the disrespect for their religion.  And it's important to realize that it's not all muslims who are responding in this way.\n\nNo religion can expect to bind the world's population to its beliefs.  That said, everyone does have a right to their beliefs, and also a right to protest the disrespect of them.
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Actually some muslim newspaper is going to publish cartoons about holocaust and exuse with freedom of speech. Still I think these are too differnt things. People had died during holocaust, and Mohammed is just a religios figure. Even more, poeple actually die in his name....
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It just shows how Muslims are.  They are violent and hateful.  If this had been done to a Christian they would merely write some scathing articles about how rude it is to attack their religion.  But how do Muslims handle it?  They want to attack a group of people who had nothing to with the cartoons.  This would be like Russia bombing us and we respond by saying "We wont allow Russia to succed.  That is why we are now bombing the Czech Republic"
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In Islam it's forbidden to represent any proPhet in any photo or drawing.All the prophet have the same Condition (Adam, Ibraham,Soleiman, Moussa, Gisus, mohamed,....)\nIt's a respect for them
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Rushdie's book banned? That's insignificant! He was sentenced to death for writing his book! But in China you can get tortured for carrying a Xtian bible. Look at the way the Islamists called for the beheading of the Danish cartoonists! What religion do you know of that is truly tolerant of (all) others?
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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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Scripture from any religion can be taken out of context... but I don't know of any other Scripture that is so intolerant of others & their beliefs -- and it is the only Scripture that promotes jihad. ~Peaceful jihad~ is an oxymoron.\n\nChristians will monitor their own. Last August, Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez & Robertson was immediately & soundly chastised & condemned by many prominent Christian leaders.\n\nShall we keep waiting for the Muslim leadership around the world to condemn international terrorism? (A few have made comments, but they prove to be the exception. And un-influential.)
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Whoa there knobstick, your words make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!  I don't think that cartoons of religious figures should be printed or sketched if it means the same thing as shouting '" Fire" in a crowded theater, ie...ignorant protesting with killed persons involved.\nBut where do we end the censorship?  In India we could never even look right or left, heck they worship everything there don't they? Air, frogs, matchsticks?