So, what's the big deal?

A bit pointless BNSA?

No, for those wondering what the big deal was, this is it. This can be seen now that all the controversy has blown over.

You know that in Islam, unlike other religions, you are not allowed to chornicle in any form how a certain prophet looked, be it art or not, it's simply not allowed as a form of respect and also since we aim to worship Allah rather then his prophet. That's why in Islam, and Islamic places of whorship you will never see ornate decorations depicting the tenants of our faith, it's because iconalization was not allowed to take place.

its a world wide conspiracy to piss muslims off. In the news today is the British goverments effor to single out muslims. They say the veils are a 'separation statement.'

no I am not joking. I am serious about calling and end to this 'clash of civiliziations' crap. Actually most of our oldest and most important scientific texts have muslim origin. They also had advanced medicine.

My arse. There are plenty of depictions of Mohammad, by Muslims, going back centuries. This fatwa against depicting Mohammod in any form, is an entirely modern, conservative trend, promoted by only certain Mullahs. Any quick look at the history books, in museums and so forth, will prove that to be the case.

As for the veil, I wouldn't care whether they wore one or not, but I think if a muslim woman wants to work in a school with young western children, then she can expect to be asked to abstain from using the veil. It's not an unreasonable request when it is the children's degree of comfort at school that is paramount. Moreover, is muslim when are allowed wear the veil in the West, why aren't Western women allowed wear knee high to short skirts in places such as Saudi Arabia or in Kuwait, where women only recently won the right to vote.

There is a class of civilisations, and while islam is as far from the root of all evil as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism, it does nonetheless have an obligation to address its believers who feel very comfortable in dragging human civilisation back to the dark ages because they think they were more pious times.


Enough already!

My automatic downvote sense tingled for a second, then I saw it was South Park.

Looks fake. And the consensus on YouTube seems to be the same. Looks like they took Mohammed from an earlier show and took "Jihad jihad" from Team America. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3SP4LlGsA

They already had Mohammed on the show and there was no outrage or censoring before. The whole controversy is just fake outrage by a bunch of insecure muslims and some imams whipping up support by preaching against perceived threats against their way of life. You see the same crap in America by ignorant fundies.

"/puts on tinfoil conspiracy hat". And if we are talking conspiracy, it's a lot more likely the fake outrage is a conspiracy to bully Denmark around. Denmark sits on the UN security council. Iran and other arab states are trying to push them around to get their support against sanctions for Iran and for anti-Israel resolutions.

Gimme a break marinara, South Park in a conspiracy to piss of muslims? Watch the whole South Park episode. They have Jesus pooping on the American flag. Do you see christians outraged? (ok, some were Watch any episode, they ridicule all religions.

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