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Should we flood the world with images of Muhammed?

Should we flood the world with images of Muhammed?


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In support of all victims of all islamic terrorist actions, should every single media outlet, publication, and private individual start printing/posting/publishing drawings of Muhammed?

Think about it. If every single person/business/group/corporation with a facebook page, instagram, snap chat, blog, forum, and web page spent a week posting nothing but pictures of Muhammed would it make a statement?

If every single non-muslim with the means to "protest" in this way banded together and posted pictures, it would number in the billions.

Would it make any kind of difference? Would it resonate with the Muslim world at all?

A world-wide grass-roots movement to collectively say "we're not going to submit to terrorist threats" and "we fully support the freedom of speech and freedom of the press/media". Would you participate?

Is it time for every single non-Muslim to post a cartoon/drawing of Muhammed in a collective gesture of support, and defiance against violence?

I'm not sure. On one hand, it's disrespectful to "flood" the world with images that you know a religion would find particularly heinous (not just offensive). On the other hand, people have the right to publish pics of Muhammed, so this would be one way to get the point of freedom of speech across. On the third hand, it would cause violence. On the fourth hand, there would be too many places and people and pics for the Islamists to focus on any one in particular for a major point.
 
Why Islam forbids images of Mohammed - CNN.com

The prohibition again illustrating the Prophet Mohammed began as a attempt to ward off idol worship, which was widespread in Islam's Arabian birthplace. But in recent years, that prohibition has taken on a deadly edge.

A central tenet of Islam is that Mohammed was a man, not God, and that portraying him could lead to revering him in lieu of Allah.

Again, here comes the "bitter irony", and SHEER STUPIDITY:

"The prophet himself was aware that if people saw his face portrayed by people, they would soon start worshiping him," Ahmed told CNN. "So he himself spoke against such images, saying 'I'm just a man.' "

In a bitter irony, the sometimes violent attacks against portrayals of the prophet are kind of reverse idol-worship, revering -- and killing for -- the absence of an image, said Hussein Rashid, a professor of Islamic studies at Hofstra University in New York.


In the Quran, there is "no statement from the prophet requesting his image not be recorded,"

Here's the thing - if you are a Muslim, and you believe it's wrong to draw images of something (anything), don't draw the damn pictures.
Whatever somebody does who is NOT a Muslim is really none of your damn business.

People who believe cows are sacred do not go about killing everybody who eats beef.
People who don't eat fish on Friday don't kill people who eat fish on Friday.
People who believe alcohol is the Devil's elixir don't try to kill everybody who drinks beer.

Muslim people MUST be driven to understand that non-Muslims should not be held accountable to Muslim dogma and Muslim "laws". Especially in countries that are NOT predominately Muslim.

If "Allah" thinks it's wrong for humans to draw pictures of Muhammed, let Allah sort it out in whatever way he see's fit.

This ideological concept of "kill the infidel - he/she drew a picture that's forbidden" is the epitome of how truly dangerous religion can be.
 
Why Islam forbids images of Mohammed - CNN.com



Again, here comes the "bitter irony", and SHEER STUPIDITY:






Here's the thing - if you are a Muslim, and you believe it's wrong to draw images of something (anything), don't draw the damn pictures.
Whatever somebody does who is NOT a Muslim is really none of your damn business.

People who believe cows are sacred do not go about killing everybody who eats beef.
People who don't eat fish on Friday don't kill people who eat fish on Friday.
People who believe alcohol is the Devil's elixir don't try to kill everybody who drinks beer.

Muslim people MUST be driven to understand that non-Muslims should not be held accountable to Muslim dogma and Muslim "laws". Especially in countries that are NOT predominately Muslim.
If "Allah" thinks it's wrong for humans to draw pictures of Muhammed, let Allah sort it out in whatever way he see's fit.

This ideological concept of "kill the infidel - he/she drew a picture that's forbidden" is the epitome of how truly dangerous religion can be.

every decent person agrees with your statement .but lets not open this issue to the discussion .WHO are we to change some basic principles of a religion.and lets not categorize all muslims as islamist bigots.






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In the Quran, there is "no statement from the prophet requesting his image not be recorded,"
 
But he does have the right to change the channel and not listen.

And that's the same right that Muslims have when it comes to magazines, TV shows, newspapers, radio programs, .....

Boycott. Don't murder.
Turn it off. Don't buy it. Don't look at it. Protest with your wallet and your feet, not with a gun, knife, or suicide vest.
 
In support of all victims of all islamic terrorist actions, should every single media outlet, publication, and private individual start printing/posting/publishing drawings of Muhammed?

Think about it. If every single person/business/group/corporation with a facebook page, instagram, snap chat, blog, forum, and web page spent a week posting nothing but pictures of Muhammed would it make a statement?

If every single non-muslim with the means to "protest" in this way banded together and posted pictures, it would number in the billions.

Would it make any kind of difference? Would it resonate with the Muslim world at all?

A world-wide grass-roots movement to collectively say "we're not going to submit to terrorist threats" and "we fully support the freedom of speech and freedom of the press/media". Would you participate?

Is it time for every single non-Muslim to post a cartoon/drawing of Muhammed in a collective gesture of support, and defiance against violence
?



Not going to happen.

Some people on this planet have other things to do with their time.




"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." ~ Tommy Smothers
 
Flooding, as in provoking, no. Exercising our 1st Amendment rights when the topic of Muhammad comes up, absolutely. We must treasure the right to speak freely and not let anyone dictate what we can or cannot say. That includes speaking for or against any topic.
We have become hypersensitive to the point that we have to carefully weigh our every word. Religious extremism, hate speech, racism, homophobia, sexual harassment...where does it stop?
 
I'd like for it to have stopped before I had to abandon the word "niggardly" because there were so many ignorant people who were unfamiliar with it. :(
 
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