Just a Thought: The truth of Images of Muhammad

Just a Thought: The truth of Images of Muhammad:        The Koran does not prohibit figural imagery. Rather, it castigates the worship of idols, which are understood as concrete embodiments...

The truth of Images of Muhammad

       The Koran does not prohibit figural imagery. Rather, it castigates the worship of idols, which are understood as concrete embodiments of the polytheistic beliefs that Islam supplanted when it emerged as a purely monotheistic faith in the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century.

     If we turn to Islamic law, there does not exist a single legal decree, or fatwa, in the historical corpus that explicitly and decisively prohibits figural imagery, including images of the Prophet. While more recent online fatwas can surely be found, the decree that comes closest to articulating this type of ban was published online in 2001 by the Taliban, as they set out to destroy the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

In their fatwa, the Taliban decreed that all non-Islamic statues and shrines in Afghanistan be destroyed. However, this very modern decree remains entirely silent on the issue of figural images and sculptures within Islam, which, conversely, had been praised as beneficial and educational by Muhammad 'Abduh, a prominent jurist in 19th century Egypt.

In sum, a search for a ban on images of Muhammad in pre-modern Islamic textual sources will yield no clear and firm results whatsoever. 



Mans Idea of making it up as they go along. Like I have said in the past READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU BLURT OUT AN IDIOTIC OPINION "BILL O'REILLY" (FOX NEWS, CNN,MSNBC,NBC,ABC,CBS) AND ALL YOU OTHER SO CALLED MEDIA PERSONALITIES. READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!

Just a Thought: Just a Thought: Race Wars in America

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Just a Thought: Just a Thought: The World in Chaos

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Just a Thought: Freedom of speech is at it's End

Just a Thought: Freedom of speech is at it's End:     I had seen what happen in Texas with Pamela Geller. Now I am watching everyone in media take her down for what she did. Now let me e...

Freedom of speech is at it's End

    I had seen what happen in Texas with Pamela Geller. Now I am watching everyone in media take her down for what she did. Now let me e...

Freedom of speech is at it's End

       I had seen what happen in Texas with Pamela Geller. Now I am watching everyone in media take her down for what she did. Now let me enlighten you on some of reasons that freedom of speech is a founding principle.

1) If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

2) America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Benazir Bhutto (Was the leader of Pakistan until murdered for her speech)

3) It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
Salman Rushdie ( A Muslim that has a price on his head for telling the truth)

     The fact that Liberals are railing against MS Geller are laughable at best. Why? Because when someone goes after Obama, people start yelling racism. But calling George Bush an Idiot was ok. And if you are a fan of the Daily Show with John Stewart or are a fan of the ultra liberal show with Bill Maher you are then picking and choosing what speech you accept and what speech is ok. Why? Because those two say the most vitriolic rhetoric about people I have ever heard. (Example Sarah Palin) Oh and her family. And tell me why is it ok for the Black Panther Party to speak out about killing white people by absconding the Founding Fathers as their reason? And tell me why they can operate a Black Power radio station and when a white pride radio station was put up in Arkansas it was deemed racist. 

     I will tell you my thoughts on this, it is people picking and choosing what they want to push to the forefront of the world conversation. We have made black Americans Victims, we have also made Muslims, Victims. And I guess that all the white people in the world are the problem. There is only one problem with that theory. People in the black community are killing themselves at a substantial rate. And it has become so acceptable that no one says shit. Muslims kill other Muslims at a rate that blows the mind. They are now not just  killing their own, they are now killing Christians. And if you look they still claim to be victims. 

     What we have become is what the founding Fathers feared. We are capitulating to violence to silence free speech. People at all of the News outlets including FOX "Bill O'reilly" have tried to use a book definition or academic definition to describe their views. When we fall victim to violent rhetoric we will become America no longer.

     I do not like a great deal of speech that tears at this country, but I will defend every persons right to say it. Even if it is unpopular. When we lose the perception of this we lose everything. 



     What sickens me the most is this: When a group of religious fanatics murder people and post videos of it, and at the same time burn alive a person of their own religion all I hear is crickets. Some one draws a picture and the world erupts. And for all you Pundits out their who think I am wrong and that I am drawing a broad comparison against Muslims. I can only say to you this. Read the book before you open your mouth. That is where they draw their doctrine.