Who is Mohammed  The One in The Cartoon ?? And what  IS Islam ??
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I don't think it's appropriate for you to be advertising websites or accusing Jews when you're supposed to be asking a question.\n\nI would like to comment on what "Iraqi-exMuslim Abroad" said.  Your attitude gives me hope, and I am very proud of you for striving to become more tolerant of others even though you grew up in such a discouraging environment for this.  I wish I knew of more people like you.  \n\nI do think it is unfortunate that you had to leave your religion behind to find this inner peace.  I would like to think that this was not necessary, that it could have been found within your religion as well.  In any case I am touched and I wish you well.
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Nothing.  It was an independent private newspaper that published the cartoon.  It would be no different than the United States government doing something over a New York Times editorial.  This is a problem that other governments have that they can't effectively control their populations and that the moderate Muslim leaders have that they can't stop their followers from rioting and killing.
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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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Jesus was described as a normal person, he looked no different than any other man.\n\nHowever we have no idea what Muhammad looks like because Muslims try to kill whoever tries to draw him
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You mean the guy with the bomb on his turban in those comics?  He's a cool guy... if you don't mind pedophilia.
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MOHAMMED, known as the Prophet of Islam, was born of the esteemed Qoreish tribes in Mecca on the 20th of April. The chief occupation of his tribe was trade. \n\nThe Islamic Prophet led a life of simplicity and poverty. His house, built of mud walls and thatched with date-palm leaves, often remained dark for want of oil for the lamp. At times he did not even have the flour with which to prepare bread. \n\nMohammed's father was Abdullah. He died while returning from a journey to Medina. His mother died six years later, leaving Mohammed in the care of his uncle, Abu Talib. His mother's name was Amna. \n\nMohammed was illiterate but from an early age he showed a remarkable aptitude for concentration. He was a serious child and never took part in pranks or frolic. \n\nWhen he grew up he earned a great reputation for his honesty and integrity. He always fulfilled his promises. Because he was extremely trustworthy, he became known as Al-Amin. \n\nOne day, Mohammed accompanied his uncle to Syria on business. On the journey he met Bahera, a Christian monk, who immediately recognized in the young boy a future prophet. \n\nWhen Mohammed was twenty-five years old he married Khadija, a rich widow of Mecca, then forty years of age. She was a gentle woman of spotless character. \n\nTHE BIRTH OF ISLAM\n\nMohammed frequently went to a cave in the desert three miles from Mecca, where he would spend months in prayer and meditation. One morning, the angel Gabriel appeared to him and said: "Rise, for thou art the Prophet of God. Go forth and preach in the name of thy Lord. Your God is merciful." A voice was heard - the voice of the Lord - addressed to the Prophet. It was recorded and became the text of the holy Koran. The Koran is not a literary work of Mohammed; it is a direct revelation of the Lord. \n\nWhen he returned from the cave, Mohammed was filled with divine majesty. On informing his wife of the vision he had, she said, "You are faithful and never utter an untruth. Therefore, you may obey the call and follow the voice." Khadija was the first disciple to profess faith in the Prophet. She became his disciple and the first follower of Islam. \n\nMohammed delivered public sermons on his faith to a large number of people, proclaiming the unity of God and denouncing the evil of drunkenness and impurity. Though some ridiculed and turned away, others were converted by the power of his words. \n\nOnce, he went to the Kaaba and proclaimed that there was no God but Allah. The worshippers of idols looked upon this as a great insult and attacked him, but he was rescued by his disciples. He was abused and insulted frequently in public. \n\nThe Prophet of Islam did not hold any debates nor did he challenge anyone to controversies and discussions. He silently converted people to his faith through his strong personality, charming demeanor and force of divine virtues. He bore with patience the persecution of his tormentors. His characteristics as well as the power of the verses of the Koran captivated the hearts of people. \n\nTHE SPREAD OF ISLAM\n\nMohammed fled from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D. when he learned that the Qoreish tribe planned to take his life. The Muslim calendar begins on the day of this flight, known as the Hijra. \n\nThe people of Medina accepted Mohammed's faith readily because it was plain, simple and direct. With their help and with an army of men the Prophet later returned to Mecca, where he succeeded in converting his relatives and fellowmen. He then sent missionaries to other parts of Arabia in order to convert the entire peninsula to the new faith. \n\nThe teaching of Mohammed attracted numerous followers because they came from a simple and honest man who never posed as a world teacher. He often told his disciples that he was an ordinary man as they were, teaching them to believe in Allah and His revelations. \n\nCOMPASSION IN ACTION\n\nMohammed had great compassion and love. He served the widows a
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It was an editorial comic.  Those typs of comics use current events and try to put a truthfull spin on it.  \n\nIn the Muhammed comic, he was depicted at the entrance to heaven.  However god is worried that all of those suicide bombers are using up all of the promised virgins in heaven.  In other words, the artist is trying to convey that killing in the name of god may not be the way to go.
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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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The extremists feel that ANY DEPICTION OF MUHAMMAD is blasphemy.. The depiction of him with a bomb with a lit fuse is a GLARING ATTACK on the fundamentalist Islamic faith..\n-------------------\nBorn Muhammad ibn Abdullah, he is said to have initially been a merchant who traveled widely.\n\nMuhammad often retreated to the mountains outside Mecca, for prayer and contemplation. Muslims believe that in 610, at about the age of forty, while praying in one of these mountain caves called Hira, he was visited by the Angel Gabriel who commanded him to memorize and recite the verses sent by God. These verses were later collected as part of the Qur'an. Gabriel told him that God (Allah in Arabic) had chosen him as the last prophet to mankind. He eventually expanded his mission as a prophet, publicly preaching a strict monotheism and warning against a Day of Judgement where all humans shall be held responsible for their deeds. He did not completely reject Judaism and Christianity, two other monotheistic faiths known to the Arabs; rather he said that he had been sent by God in order to complete and perfect their teachings. Many in Mecca resented his preaching and persecuted him and his followers. Muslims believe that this was in part due to his followers' holding Muhammad's authority above that of their leaders. Eventually, persecution followed and in 622, he was forced to flee from Mecca (the Hijra) and settled in Yathrib (now known as Medina) with his followers, where he was the leader of the first avowedly Muslim community. War between factions in Mecca and Medina followed, in which Muhammad and his followers were eventually victorious. The military organization that was created by this struggle was then set to conquering the other tribes of Arabia. By the time of Muhammad's death, he had unified Arabia, spread Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula, and launched expeditions to the north, towards Syria and Palestine.\n\nUnder Muhammad's immediate successors, the Islamic empire expanded into Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, North Africa, and Iberia. Later conquests, commercial contact between Muslims and non-Muslims, and missionary activity spread Islam over much of the globe.\n\nAll Muslims feel a great love and veneration for Muhammad, and express this feeling in many ways.\n\nWhen speaking or writing, Muhammad's name is preceded by the title "Prophet" and is followed by the phrase, Peace be upon him, or Peace be upon him and his descendants by Shias; in English often abbreviated as "(pbuh)" and "pbuh&hd", or just simply as "p". \nConcerts of Muslim and especially Sufi devotional music include songs praising Muhammad (see Muslim music, Qawwali). \nSome Muslims celebrate the birthday of Muhammad (Mawlid) with elaborate festivities. Others do not, believing that such festivities are modern innovations. \nCriticism of Muhammad is often equated with blasphemy, which is punishable by death in some Muslim states. \nMuhammad is often refered to with titles of praise. \nMuhammad's relics, such as his grave, his sword, his clothing, even strands of his hair, are revered by some. \nEven non-iconic representations of Muhammad are traditionally discouraged. From the 16th century, however, Persian and Ottoman art frequently represented Muhammad in miniatures, albeit with his face either veiled, or emanating radiance (see e.g. Siyer-i Nebi). Modern caricatures of Muhammad have caused great controversy and criticism (see Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons for an example). \nBeyond the stories accepted as canonical by Islamic scholars of hadith, or oral traditions, there are many folktales praising Muhammad and recounting miraculous stories of his birth, upbringing and life.
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"ships raised up high"\nHey! That proves Mohammad predicted airplanes!\nIt's a MIRACLE! You see! He really IS a prophet!\nWow man!\nThanks, I'm gonna convert to Islam right away, and YOU will get a great big fat reward for it!\n\nNOT
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This link gives more details\nBecause the core of the story is not related to the printing of the orignal and "genuine" 12 cartoons...\n\nAt the end of the link, the dark brown pics are the added cartoons that many say, the Danish Imam added when he wanted to create reactions from the muslim countries (5 months after the incident !).\n\nIf you have, like the Mufti of Marseille would say, maturity in your faith (if you are Muslim) the 12 original Cartoons should not make you react. Like the Mufti of Marseille says, Mr. Benchek, freedom of speech has been an essential aspect of how muslim live in the West. The reactions are proof that Muslims are not strong in their Faith and feel insulted for just a few pics of bad taste (he was reffering to ONLY the original Cartoons and not the Mysteriously 3 added ones...)\n\nMake sure you read throughly to distingish what is said.... Because if you only "look" you will be another one of the manipulated persons, which ever side of the coin you are on.\n\nCiao !
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He is kana dajjal and kafir. He is fooling muslims with his arabic. \n\nEven if Arabic people curse you, you gonna say they are reading quran. Even if he kills more muslims you will see the non muslims he has killed. \n\nWether he is real or fake, La'nat upon him. He will burn in hell.
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u don't know nothing about ISLAM or PROPHET MOHAMMED OR HIS LIFE FROM ANY SIDE ,,\nu have to know this  GREAT MAN be4 u talk like ignorant about HIM\nTHEN U READ QURAN AND HADITHS,,COUZ ALL U SAID IS JUST 100%IGNORANCE ,,\nFIRST MEET THIS MAN\nDo you know this man?\n \n \n \nEncyclopedia Britannica confirms: "...a mass of detail in the early sources shows that he was an honest and upright man who had gained the respect and loyalty of others who were likewise honest and upright men." (Vol. 12) \n\n            George Bernard Shaw said about him: " He must be called the Savior of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it much needed peace and happiness". (The Genuine Islam, Singapore, Vol.1, No.8, 1936) \n\n            He was by far the most remarkable man that ever set foot on this earth. He preached a religion, founded a state, built a nation, laid down a moral code, initiated numerous social and political reforms, established a powerful and dynamic society to practice and represent his teachings and completely revolutionized the worlds of human thought and behavior for all times to come. \n\n            "HIS NAME IS MUHAMMAD" May Peace of God Be Upon Him (PBUH) \n\n            He was born in Arabia in the year 570 C.E. (common era), started his mission of preaching the religion of Truth, Islam (submission to One God at the age of forty and departed from this world at the age of sixty-three. \n\n            During this short period of 23 years of his prophethood, he changed the complete Arabian peninsula from paganism and idolatry to worship of One God, from tribal quarrels and wars to national solidarity and cohesion, from drunkenness and debauchery to sobriety and piety, from lawlessness and anarchy to disciplined living, from utter bankruptcy to the highest standards of moral excellence. Human history has never known such a complete transformation of a people or a place before or since - and IMAGINE all these unbelievable wonders in JUST OVER TWO DECADES. \n\n            Lamartine, the renowned historian, speaking on the essentials of human greatness, wonders: "If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls...his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was two-fold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with the words. \n\n            Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is MUHAMMAD. \n\n            As regards all the standards by which Human Greatness may be measured, we may well ask, IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE? (Lamartine, Historire de la Turquie, Paris, 1854, Vol. II pp. 276-277) \n\n            The world has had its share of great personalities. But these were one sided figures who distinguished themselves in but one or two field, su
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God bless u sister ........ keep doing ur best for islam \n\nmy jihad is saying ''there is no God but Allah and Mohammed is His prophet''\n\nassalamo alaikom\n\nEDIT. i would just like to add that i really respect david's point of view ........ fair enough
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The more those people protest about insignificant cartoons the more other people realize that maybe religion (specifically islam) is not worthy of following.  Who wants to follow a prophet that has thin skin.  If you have to believe in a god, wouldn't you want one that has the ability to laugh at himself?
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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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If it is the false prophet the Dante dipicts, then it is not Mohammed.  Check out the book of Revelation, this will talk about the false prophet and the antichrist.  Neither of which have taken power on the earth.  Keep watching though, it won't be long before they will emerge.