Is there a message that is imbarrassing in an Islamic caricature,what is the point?
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No one forces them to look at the cartoons.\nThey should just get over it!\nThey claim to be peaceful but they don't live it.
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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 .
94154
It's a sad life if you can't even make fun of your own beliefs. It's one thing to poke fun and it's another thing to discriminate. I'd hate to have a religion where you're not allowed to laugh or draw pictures of your religious hero.
814862
sometimes the message just doesn't get across because you can't tell body language or hear inflection.  \n\notherwise, i'd say a large part of the online community simply has too large a stick up their behinds to laugh at themselves or to ever consider that so much of their very existence is laughable to others.
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Not a Muslim, but I've seen the impersonation before, and it is usually so transparent.  I "called" someone on it just the other night, telling them I didn't believe they were Muslim, rather impersonating one to try and give Muslims a bad name.\n\nThanks for the tips!
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.  In the name of Allah,Most Gracious Most Merciful\n SALAM\n          Sura 53 ,verse19..just before this verse .in this Sura Allah is telling us about the signs of of him which the Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) saw during his journey to heaven (this journey is called mayrrage in Islam) and every Muslim believes in it. Now in this verse from the heights of divine glory we come back again to this sorry earth,with its base idolatries.We are asked to"look at this picture(the signs of Allah)and at the later" The three principal idols of pagan Arab idolatry were the goddess"Lat" "Uzza",and"Manat".Basically if understood correctly it means that how can anyone deny the clear signs of Allah and worship idols like that.\n\n    the thing you have written under this verse\n\n   "THESE ARE THE EXALTED FEMALES\nMOUNTING NEARER AND NEARER TO ALLAH."\n\n i don't understand where this came from...its is not in the Quran anywhere,,neither in any book of prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) sayings called HADITH...these lines are fabricated and have nothing to do with Allah ,his messenger(peace be upon him)and Islam.\n\nnow the Sura 16 ,,is called "Nahl" and the verse 103 reads as follows\n   "And We know well that they say: Only a man teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech."\n    I challenge you to go check in any Quran in the world.You will find that I am telling the truth..PLEASE GIVE THE RIGHT REFERENCE ,,,and I will try my best to answer your question.\n\nsura 22,verse 50-52\n\nProphets and messengers are but humans.Their actions are righteous and their motives are pure,but in judging things from a human point of view,the suggestions may come to their mind (from satan) that it would be good to have power or wealth or influence for furthering Allah's cause,or that it may be good to conciliate some faction which may be irreconcilable.In fact.in Allah's plan,it may be opposite.Allah ., in his mercy and inspiration,will cancel any false or vein suggestions of this kind,and confirm and strengthen His own Commands and make known His will in his signs or revelations.
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The cartoons were not unfair, just silly, in poor taste, and wrong. What was unfair was implying that all Muslim’s are violent extremists and that their religion is based/founded on violence.\n\nIt is also unfair to imply that all Westerner's are anti-Muslim by attacking and destroying their property.\n\nIt is extremely unfair for a child to die using poor taste, silly cartoons as an excuse.
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yes they aren't funny at all.\nit seems the only reason af publishing them, is this situation:\n\nhere they are:\nhttp://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands_Posten.html
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I don´t think that they wanted to hurt the religous feelings of other people. More or less funny drawings are in every newspeopler. Sometimes they are also about christian holidays, clericals,... but nobody feels hurt.
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:}\nI'm afraid you will have to settle for the more recent cartoons . Muslims would never have left such an artifact for fear the truth would be seen in his likeness.
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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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In Islam, one of its main deals is that you can't draw a picture of either God or Prophet Muhammed, or portray them in a film, etc. \n\nIslamic art is mostly based on script (writing) because of it and mosques don't contain pictures like churches do, or stained glass windows, etc.  Mosques do have great Arabic calligraphy though that can be seen as a sort of picture, but because it's letters it isn't.\n\nWhile it may seem "funny" to the West that these people are so mad about a cartoon you have to understand the Islamic world better.  The Islamic world thinks that the West is out to put McDonalds up in place of every mosque and they think that most Westerners hate them and want to destroy their religion.\n\nInstead of saying to them, "hey Muslims, chill out man, we're just like you,"  the cartoonists and newspapers basicially said "you know what, you people are idiots and we disrespect you to your face".\n\nNow Islamic criticism does exist, so do portrayals of the prophet, in cartoon and critically.  So why this particular set of cartoons?  Because some political leaders in the Middle East are provoking these riots, mostly done by uneducated men who have never seen the cartoons.  It's a politically motivated event.  The cartoons were published last September for J's sake.\n\nAlso, the entire Middle East isn't rioting, it's a few dummies.  Most Middle Easterners, while Muslim, are upset about it, but care more about their jobs, family, living day to day, etc.  \n\nA fantastic blog is listed below, it's by a Saudi guy living in London and is against all Islamic extremism, check it out.\n\nHope my answer helped.
933253
There is a good joke there, but presentation needs work
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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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I dont think Islam respects anyone who doesnt see like they do, which may be true for other religions too, but "death to the infidels" is a uniquely Muslim idea that may bear upon the poor image.
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i am for free speech!! keep it up!! muslims should learn tolerance just like Christians had too. it is unfair for groups to say it is wrong to depict mohammand but it is OK to depict Christ.
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I think it's a veiled anti-Christian message.\n\nHere's the "Toys for Tots" Mission Statement from www.toysfortots.org:\n\nMISSION: The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as CHRISTMAS gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted. (emphasis added)\n\nThink about it:  the Marines say they're not sure what religion (if any) a child might be who receives these toys.  The program is to give kids toys for CHRISTMAS.  Why would a Muslim, Jewish or atheist child celebrate CHRISTmas?\n\nThe military is rapidly becoming secular and this is but one example.