Mad, mad, mad…
What else can be said about this madness?
Humor is above politics and above religion. It is a basic human right to laugh and to make fun of anything, anything, as long as it is funny. When nobody laughs, you crossed the line.
I laughed.
I am that strong.
Izmet
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From Islamic point of view, visual depictions of Muhammad are forbidden. So what does he look like? Not important. But then … how do we know those wretched pictures were pictures of Muhammad? Because the title said so! The title of the pics nailed the coffin, not the pics! Without the word Muhammad above the controversial pics that would be a random Islamic dude.
So what precisely is mad about this? That the position of islam on this topic is untrue to islam itself. The true position they should take would be: “Mohammad CAN’T be drawn in a mocking fashion, so a man drawn in a mocking fashion by definition can not be Mohammad, EVEN IF THE TITLE SAYS SO! You stupid europeans think THAT is Muhammad? Haha, you’re delusional, what do you know.” Instead, they took a position from which they willingly gave us the power to mock them. They literally belittled themselves. I mean, I didn’t know it was that easy! I can draw a guy with a turban, slap the name Mohammad in near vicinity and suddenly one billion people will hate me? That’s ridiculous!!! That’s weakness!
The lesson of the caricatures was rather simple: from the old saying “practice what you preach” the current questionable practices of the Muslim world were superimposed over the Preacher. The pics were saying: you are untrue to yourself, you don’t practice what you preach. (Like the West does, but that’s another story.) Which renders their reaction symptomatic. The problem is Islamic clerics who started this flame war very well knew all this but used it for their own agenda.
Jerch