Newspaper threatened after Mohammed cartoons
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten is facing accusations that it deliberately provoked and insulted Muslims by publishing twelve cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed. - Islam bans depictions of Prophet Muhammad.
The newspaper urged cartoonists to send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.
Prophet Muhammed. By: Rasmus Sand Høyer
Twelve illustrators heeded the newspaper’s call, and sent in cartoons of the prophet, which were published in the newspaper one week ago.
Several of the illustrators has been threatened and at least one is still under police protection.
Update 18/10
I just found another one of the published drawings from Jyllands-Posten. This one must be the most provocative of them all:
Muhammed: Kurt Westergaard
- Islam bans depictions of Prophet Muhammad
Se more danish newspapers here.
Update 07/11
Today Lars send me a file containing all the drawings they can be found here: Link
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Lighten up, there are countless pictures of the Christian God and many other religious figures, nobody bitches about them!
Comment by john smith — October 17, 2005 @ 6:39 pm
These people are insane and they will never “lighten up.” Their belief in a false prophet is the source of our problems. They started the Crusades and convincing kids to strap bombs on themselves for the greater glory of Islam. I doubt God would really support killing yourself. Only their leaders gain any benefit from their deaths, then they try to convince the rest of the world that Islam is a peaceful religion. Just watch the reaction to any insult to Islam. Almost an earlier form of Scientology.
Comment by Eric Murray — October 17, 2005 @ 7:35 pm
>>Comment by john smith — October 17, 2005 @ >>6:39 pm
>>These people are insane and they will >>never “lighten up.†Their belief in a false >>prophet is the source of our problems.
Do you REALLY think so????
Who PROVES this to you????
I think Christians are just as insane as Muslims.
Each one of them BELIEVES in things no-one can ever prove.
Every religion is based on BELIEVING, not KNOWING.
Only an insane fanatic thinks he KNOWS.
A normal person thinks about it and may discover that it is all impossible nonsens!!
Comment by Billy-Bob — October 18, 2005 @ 2:12 pm
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.
Comment by Arena — October 18, 2005 @ 4:03 pm
I think so.
Let’s see…
Muslims cloak up their women like a sofa in storage, with just her eyes exposed. Even though her eyes are the window into her soul.
Christians teach that women are equal partners, and that they are to be treated with respect and dignity. And the right to live their lives without some oppresive goon with a long beard leaning on them all the time. Or threatening her with an honor killing, or trying to shave off her clitoris with a dull knife…
Muslims universally live like dirt rats. Unless they happen to be either very corrupt, or own a piece of land with oil underneath it.
Christians live like normal, decent, loving human beings.
Muslims are very easy to dupe. Scientology should build recruitment centers in every Islamic village.
Christians are level headed, industrious, with excellent work ethics and loads of common sense. And they honor a religion that actually does teach love.
Muslims are exceedingly violent. To their very core.
Christians always seem to be on the side of decency. In WWII, (muslims sided with Hitler), Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq…
Muslims do not build or create. They simply destroy and decry.
Christians built the U.S. of A. Need I say more?
Yup.
Muslims are hopelessly insane, and Christians are very sane.
Comment by Common Sense — October 18, 2005 @ 4:22 pm
iam an atheist, and to say that christians are just as crazy as muslims is the most idiotic thing i have ever heard. Im sure it came out of a liberals mouth. The muslim religion mostly in its radical forms is the most disgusting thing on the planet today.
Comment by aron — October 18, 2005 @ 4:45 pm
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Muslims are hopelessly insane, and Christians are very sane.
Comment by Common Sense — October 18, 2005 @ 4:22 pm
YOU ARE AS MAD AS A HATTER!!!!!!
Comment by Billy-Bob — October 18, 2005 @ 10:35 pm
Ok, obviously most of the comments written here are by idiots..let me enlighten you.
The reason why Muslims object to illustrations of the prophet is because we know images and statues would be made in his likeness as has been done in with Jesus. This is human nature. You can find statues of Jesus with christians praying infront of it…this is the same practice of hindus and buddhists and christanity is against any form of IDOL worship, yet this is a common practice. Jesus is portayed as a blonde blue eyed person, an example of European prejudice, when we know he was a SEMITE and of middle eastern appearance. So a venerable prophet is reduced to FALSE images and statues in todays world. Muslims have been guided appropriately and this is the reason why we do not want our prophet to be so disrespectly protrayed as Jesus has been. But i guess only a true christian would understand my comments. My sympathies….
Comment by Preachertoidiots — October 19, 2005 @ 8:42 am
To CommonSense :
You are so right, I’m glad there’s no violent & aggressive stuff in the bible / christianity !!!!
I mean, who needs crap like “an eye for an eye”, “sacrifice your first born son”, etc., right ?
And it’s good to know the Christians never went on any crusades, never killed anyone or burnt them on the stake, never invaded any countries under false pretenses etc., right ?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a muslim extremist.
But I’m also not a Christian extremist.
I think any religion besides the only TRUE religion is silly.
And as we all know the only TRUE RELIGION is the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
( http://www.venganza.org/ )
Comment by Led — October 19, 2005 @ 12:49 pm
christ suck.u motherfucker.christian insane ..dont trust cristian.fuckup..
Comment by bush — October 20, 2005 @ 1:15 pm
Cruelty and viloence in the bible:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html
Comment by Malaysian — October 20, 2005 @ 5:53 pm
WELCOME HOME PALS!!! You know?? I just want tell you all. “YOU GOT WHATS YOU GET.”
The promise is true. Really true. I can’t help you all but just to remember whats you all know. Bye!! The promise really…. really true. I’m the witness. :)
Comment by azizaffa — October 20, 2005 @ 6:45 pm
I just want to warn you all. islam is a peaceful religion and muslims don’t want to fall down in belief like christians do. muslims newer let renegades change their belief as it is in christianity
peace be upon you
Comment by ahmet alan — October 20, 2005 @ 8:26 pm
Dear dear people, why….. take break, take a kit kat man! ralexe, it is just a little news paper from a little country that are taking the piss out of everything. In Denmark we’ve got an artist that have made a film about Jesus. It was directly about his Sex life, iort was porn. These drawing are harmless. Come one world poeple, lets looks at the serius problems there in the world instead of some drawings. In denmark Cartoonist are having right to what ever they would like to take the piss of. THey are making fun of what is going on in the world, and it is a joke that you can not draw a drawing of a man every muslim are looking up to. We are living in 2005 we are modern people. Actualy THe danish news paper ask a very simple question: can we draw a man we who is like we sometimes draw Jesus having sex or something like that.
Comment by lars — October 20, 2005 @ 10:46 pm
I have seen all the cartonnes, andd thouse shown here at this page was the worst , but why has only the waorst drawing been shown, why hasn’t this page not shown the rest which was so so harmles and very cute ended. THerfore you cannot juge from only these two drawins. I gues that the midlle est meddia has only shown these two drawings.
To the editor of this page please show all the drawings there was 12.
And yes we surdently make fun of our primeminister and queen, etc.
Comment by lars — October 20, 2005 @ 10:55 pm
Hi Lars, I sure would like post the other drawings. The onlye problem is that I do not have them!
I do not have the newspapers, but found these 2 on www.jp.dk.
If you have the paper or files please send them to me and I will post them.
Best
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — October 21, 2005 @ 8:40 am
her is the link to all the pics
http://pics.jp.dk/nybillede/default.asp?id=2253&pixid=31801
Comment by lars — October 21, 2005 @ 9:53 pm
Assalamualaikum,
I’m Muslim. I belief ALLAH and MUHAMMAD.
I’m always reading AL-QURAN.
Muslims are not terrorist. The zionist create that name (muslim = terrorist). It is because the last prophet is from Arab not from Jews. And it is because only Muslims can failed their agenda to control the world (USA is controlled by zionist !!! Wake-up American !!!).
Please go to http://www.muslimheritage.com/ if you want to find what Muslims have given to the world.
Do some research about Islam (dont’ listen propaganda from media) by yourself.
Islam will raise again - soon (This is what Zionist afraid)
Insya-Allah…we will raise again.
Comment by syzuhdi — October 22, 2005 @ 3:39 am
Often Muslims are actually misunderstood as the Arabs killers and womanizers, as depicted so cruelly by Hollywood. The same cruel style of depicting the African Americans in the old cartoons, or the red Indians in the old white-hero cowboys! When to comes to seeing and depicting outsiders to the Westerners, people belong to two groups; those who give a concern and a care to the truth, and those who do not! The latter will always despise the “other”; would never tolerate differences in culture, religion, even skin color, and would almost always have the “nuke’em†mindset! Not much to do for those in way of convincing them of the grose cruelty done against the great personality of the messenger of Islam, Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him. But as to the for the former type people; those who care and would like to know the truth which lies beyond the smoke screens, I say: “Friends, Muhammad is the greatest man that set foot on this earth. He was the highest, most refined example and human model for moral character, integrity, kindness, parenthood, husband, citizen, Statesman, leader, loyalty towards covenants, trustworthy, mercy, decency, and much more. For example, the favorite accusation that Arab-hating, Muslim-bashing sneaks throw at Muhammad is that he was a womanizer! Nothing could be farther from the truth, as a simple reading of Muhammad’s life reveals, he was 25 years of age when he married his first wife (Khadija) who was 40 years of age! As his nickname in the tribe of Quraish in Mecca was the Honest and Trustworthy, he was also observed to have total faithfulness towards Khadijah. Get this: he did not marry another woman for the entire life he had with Khadija, which was over 25 years. That is a long time to be faithful, if he was a womanizer! Is it not??? Only at the age of fifty three did he marry again, a marriage of diplomatic relationship with his closest companion Abu-Bakr. He married other women, but were all older women who were either widowed or divorced, and mostly were marriages of mercy of honoring of status of such women. Actually, Muhammad spent all of his life as a messenger of Islam (from eth age of 40 until his passing at 63) struggling and striving to spread the great message of Islam across Arabia. Surrounded constantly by hundreds of people who never so much as mentioned that he ever committed an indecent act would make the “Womanizer” accusation a ludicrous one to say the least, would it not???. Another accusations are easily refuted if you, my dear caring individual, would simply take the time to read about the greatest of God’s prophets and messengers, Muhammad Peace be Upon Him. However, if you prefer to get your information (or Misinformation) from people like Jerry Farwell or Pat Robertson, or from a dedicated Muslim-bashing-judo Christian web site, well, it’s your porogative. But be prepared to answer God in the Hereafter for missing out on knowing Muhammad PBUH! As to His pictures depiction, the issue of depicting his picture is not a question of Art to Muslims; it’s rather a display of disrespect and yet another attempt to try to hurt and humiliate Muslims! By the way, Muslims are equally insulted if Jesus Christ Peace Be Upon Him (or Any of God’s Messengers, such as Moses or Ibrahim Peace Be Upon Them all) are displayed in any provocative, disrespectful manner; that’s another little known piece of information about Muslims. Here is a site that talks about Muhammad in truth! www.thetruemohammad.com You owe it to yourself to know the truth friend… Cheers!
Comment by Yousef — October 22, 2005 @ 4:54 am
folks this about the free press, this what it is all about. The thing that started all this was a man that wanted to write a children book explaining the koran. In the book the writer needed some illlustrations. No one wanted to draw mohammed. This was the rewason why the danish news paper started to ask illustrtor to draw mohammed to show that in Denmark there is free speach and free press. not influented from religion or the goverment. That was the reason why the news paper puplished the drawings. The drawings are little bid over top beharps, but that is how Dansh humour is. We are known for beeing sarcastic.
I cannot see why muslims should be offended, there is no reason. Relax it is just some drawings half of them is even without mohammed. Danes are known for taking the piss out of everything. I cannot se why muslim goverments around the world is complaining to the Danish Prime minister, since he doesn’t have anything to do with this.
I am sure that there are great Muslims around world that have done great architecture, but it doesn’t have anything to do with thise drawings.
Comment by lars — October 22, 2005 @ 1:36 pm
I think the editor of this website must be leran more about Islam. It not very easy to understand without learning the truth about Islam. So that can make us know about Prophet Mohammad. Please refer to the expert.
Comment by Rajuna Mustapha — October 23, 2005 @ 7:24 am
Rajuna Mustapha it is about the free press get it man, it about some drawing nothing else man.
Comment by lars — October 23, 2005 @ 4:33 pm
“It’s just about free pressâ€. “It’s just some drawing!†These statements were repeated throughout some of the above comments. The problem with the first is that it implies that “free press” is a value for mankind that must come above and beyond almost all other values. A simple illustration that this is a flawed notion is if for example someone wanted to publish in the newspaper detailed descriptions of let’s say the private parts of his neighbor’s wife, provide her full name and exact address, along with any pictures of her naked as well as explicit details of his fantasies about this woman!! What? Is that unacceptable … appalling … even illegal? So what happened to free press? Should it be free or should it not? And if let’s say this example was actually legal … then shouldn’t we encourage this person to publish this information in order for us to really practice, uphold, and reinforce this highly fundamental value of free press? Obviously, free press is not a value for mankind that supersedes all other values. The questions as to what is acceptable, what is appropriate, and what is not is a matter of judgment. Certainly, high in this judgment should come the beliefs and values of more than a billion people on this planet who also have significant presence in this country, and are your neighbors, colleagues and friends. Regardless of whether we voluntarily practice these limitations as responsible adults, and as people who preach love and co-existence, or whether some of these limitations are legislated and imposed legally, it remains that “free press†is not a goal that we should pursue on the expense of everything else. Next comes the second statement “it’s just some drawingâ€! This statement uses the excuse that a few cartoonist drawings or images is a trivial matter that is not a big deal! The answer to that is that what may not be a big deal for you could be quite a big deal for others. Consider this, over a period of 1400 years, none of the thousands and thousands of Muslims’ books, literature, and art contained any image of the Prophet Mohammad peace and blessings from God be upon him and upon all of God’s other beloved messengers and prophets. If this was not a big deal to Muslims, you would have seen such drawings and images appear here in there. Therefore, it is important to understand that it is in fact a big deal and all of us as global citizens should respect what our neighbors hold highly in their values and beliefs.
Comment by Hisham — October 24, 2005 @ 1:02 pm
oh man we are living in 2005 man. alright. in bible ikt proberly written that you were not allawed to critisize god, and jesus, and take the piss out the, earliere it was illigal to be against the king of denmark. Today we are taking the piss out everything and we have the right to do that, get it man. nothing else. if muslims in denmarks would to be intregated as Danes as all other danes, they Have to they can be joked about as well as all other danes. That is what it is all about. I do not thing that Jesus was happy if he knew about that porn film made or maybe he is. The same is with Islam it has to be modernize. There are proberly not written anything about car internet in the Koran. come on man. its just drawings man nothing else.
The press can write what ever they would like to write, if muslims are offended try the court. But the court would proberly not take this for seriusly, because there are more impotant problems in the world than 12 naive drawings.
about the neighbor’s wife well she wouldn’t complain to the prime minister but behabs complain to the local court. or she wouldn’t care about it too much.
Comment by lars — October 24, 2005 @ 1:47 pm
im a muslims…
astagfirullah….we muslims never ever creat such a damn forum like this to abuse christian…
may Allah pay you! Amin…
Ya Allah Ya tuhan ku, kau laknati lah mereka yang menhina agama mu, mencaci Muhammad and throw them in your gratefull hell..Amin..amin..yarabbalalamin..to all of you..may Allah give you the right way to choose…
and muslim never treted a woman like all of you ever thought..and yes, i’m a woman..
may Allah bless all of you..
Comment by Hamba Allah — October 25, 2005 @ 3:41 am
i heard about “Khusti Kudus” in christian? what the hell is that? eat ur God Body? wahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha….what a stoopid religion…u praise ur god and then u eat him as ur breakfast?
we muslims eat “nasik lemak” or “roti canai” u know…its very delicious..burrrp…
Comment by Hamba Allah — October 25, 2005 @ 3:56 am
i thinks you mad people have to see this page instead, that is basically showing how danish humour is, and that could proberlly explain our srcastic humour.
Comment by lars — October 25, 2005 @ 11:37 am
i forgot to type the address http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/
Comment by lars — October 25, 2005 @ 11:38 am
it must be STOP! its a stupid + brain dead thinker!! how can u get the job with this attitude? how bout if we change that muslim cartoon to christian cartoon? how do you feel? must be the same way right?
Comment by Eyes — October 25, 2005 @ 3:22 pm
well not realy a few years ago a man in denmark made an porn film about jusus sex life. what did we do in denmark we had a laugh man. And yes do many illustrations with jesus, its al lready done. even an illustration with Jesus on the cross nude and with a very stiff one. This is a local story in denmark nothing else. what is the next thing yopu are not aloud to. are you not aloud to dress up as mohammed to a hallowen. relax man!!!!
Comment by lars — October 25, 2005 @ 5:45 pm
im not very sensetive about the illustration..but very mad when there are people talk shit about muslims..why eh? so if in denmark,all the christian people can do many illustartion in jesus then made some joke and lough, it’s doesnt mean that you can do the same thing to other religions…go to hell if you dont want to respect your religion…but respect the others.please…religion is not something to lough at.and i know that you people will say..”oh we’re so open minded..”..sigh..
Comment by sofia jane — October 26, 2005 @ 2:11 am
tak kuasa nyah…why all the danish like to make all these shit? aw man…please be matured…lalalalla…tak kuasa aku melayan nkorang kapir ni semua…nanti masuk neraka gak jawabnya…(please refer to dictionary..that as Malay language..wahahaah)..
Comment by rafeah buang — October 26, 2005 @ 2:26 am
folks here are a few examples of using Jesus and other relios things. Lately a Rapper from Denmark called The Jocker. He made a song called: Gigolo Jesus. Therefore do not say that Danes and Christians cannot take the piss out of our own religion. One of teh caartonist that skketched mohammed has written an article saying that he has sketched illustraded Jesus, God, the devil loads of poilitions and the primeminister. He is an illustrator because he loves to do it and because we are living in a modern society wiuth freedom of speach in 2005 and noit in 905. Dear Muslims relaxe it is just drawings. I think you should worry about some problems in the world than this.
Comment by lars — October 26, 2005 @ 2:00 pm
admid it muslkkims this is not the first time mohmmad has been illustrated http://www.clipartguide.com/_pages/0060-0504-1317-0406.html
Comment by lars — October 27, 2005 @ 7:31 am
Prophet Muhammad S.A.W can’t be imagined!! please stop it!!
Comment by Abdullah — October 29, 2005 @ 3:01 pm
MIslums are like kindergaten kids, if the little kid get teased by the other kids it cries. and al the otrher kids find it more and more fun to tease. Basicaly Muslimes are TOO sensintive. we are not living in 903 but in 2005. Muslims have to accept that the world can the piss out of them, like we take the piss out of every thing else.
in the other way the danes are now seriously not taking egybt in any way seriously beacuse the are so offended about a local news paper in denmark.
Therfore muslims are TOO sentitive. instead take the piss out of us or somtehing joke about do something ralaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.
Comment by lars — November 4, 2005 @ 8:15 am
suicide bombers,Honor killings,arranged marriages all in the name of islam!the prophet married a 9 year old girl!aisha,so he has something in comon with michael jackson,this is the 21st century and we should be able to think,write,marry who we want,muslims are like the christians hundreds of years ago if she critised the religion you go murdered!become amember of this century and elvolve, thank God that Denmark and Holland are standing up for themselves,
Comment by Fatima — November 6, 2005 @ 3:52 am
does anyone know where i can find these 12 drawings? many thanks
Comment by Fatima — November 6, 2005 @ 3:55 am
Theo van gogh,hirshi ali,Jyllands-posten news paper,stand for what they believe in,the problems with muslims is they can never critise their own faith,which has plenty of faults and which is a man’s religion,hatred of jews and homosexuals, please intregrate into modern society
Comment by Fatima — November 6, 2005 @ 4:02 am
[…] -And here […]
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there is a link further up
Comment by lars — November 7, 2005 @ 4:05 pm
Hi Lars,
The link is there, but the pictures are gone. Jyllands-Posten has removed them. Not because of the controversy but due to normal work/content flow on the website. I have searched the net for copies, but I can´t find them. If anyone find them I will be glad to host them her.
Best
-And thanks for a nice and (mostly) sober debate :-)
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — November 7, 2005 @ 4:17 pm
Just one thought…
What if draw a stick-man and call him Muhammed, would that be insulting muslims?
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — November 7, 2005 @ 4:22 pm
I’ve got the drawings as one file
Comment by lars — November 7, 2005 @ 6:11 pm
Thanks Lars for sending me the pictures. They are now online and can be found here: 12 drawings of Muhammed
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — November 7, 2005 @ 11:06 pm
You guys are forgetting something important.
Christianity and Islam are NOT the same! Only after you can acknowledge this would you be able to understand why the Muslims and Christians obey different rules, rituals, beliefs, etc. What is allowed in Christianity could or should not be the same in Islam, and vice versa.
If it’s okay to portray Jesus, then why should it be okay to portray Muhammad?
If the illustrators fail to at least even try to understand or find out WHY nobody wanted to draw the Prophet, then they are the arse. Not free speech or whatever. If its truly free speech then they should allow terrorist mentality in Danish newspaper articles or whatever, but they won’t. There can never be 100% free speech, not in America, Denmark or wherever. You just won’t see any Danish newspaper talking shit about their shareholders, it’s simple really.
And since they made fun of (knowingly or unknowingly, delibeately or not) the Muslim community, they should accept and the responsibility the “free speech” idea that those people who threaten them back.
Likewise, if you can’t accept that the Muslims don’t like/hate the Prophet’s pictorial depictions then accept the fact that Muslims don’t accept your ideals/beliefs as well.
Comment by C-Fu — November 11, 2005 @ 11:19 pm
Christianity and Islam are NOT the same!>>> thats absolutely true, but we are living in a world where humour is a part of everyday life. If you don’t have a religion it doesn’t matter what relition you are making fun of, and that is what this story is about, that muslim in Denmark, should accept that they can be taken piss of like all the other poeple in the country. That is what the whole thing is about and not what an Iman from Egybt thinks. Thiis is a local story.
Comment by lars — November 12, 2005 @ 8:01 pm
Yes, it is a local story. However, the issue has a global attachment to it, since it provokes not just the muslims in Denmark, but also muslims everywhere. The newspaper should also accept that not everywhere in this world accept and follow your “able to piss anybody” attitude contrary to your opinion. you just can’t piss people without receiving some brickbats in return.
Comment by C-Fu — November 13, 2005 @ 2:14 am
If you compare what USA (president) has killed only in Japan and to what alqada has killed ..what is the ratio??
Is this implement a conclusion..
According to your sense all Christians are barbaric killers because a part of them has killed 50,000 person in one bomb…
Prophet Mohammad isn’t the problem neither Islam it is the people who promote killing(They maybe muslims, christans, or someone else..).
Islam doesn’t promote killing inoccent people…..And to your knowledge Al qada killed more Muslims than any other religion!!!!
Comment by Ali — November 14, 2005 @ 1:38 am
Ahhh you’re all as mad as hatters.
Let the religious freaks battle it out
and the agnostics will inherit the radioactive earth.
:-)
Comment by Beelzebub — November 15, 2005 @ 5:34 am
Hi all, I just have one thing to say to this long and confused discussion:
Let it be, get real, take care….
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — November 15, 2005 @ 6:02 pm
Mr Lars…Who are You?…Do u have that much of spare time on u,nothing else to do except trying hard to prove that it is just a matter of freedom ,and saying what u want to even if it hurts others,if i knew something would hurt somebody i wouldnt do it or say it even if i didnt think so,plz grow up…u admitted that u and them are just like old kids trying to tease others,,what a civilization!!!Islam has been and will be always the last and great religion which respects and talks highly about all prophets ,and doesnt make fun of any
Comment by Aisha — November 23, 2005 @ 1:50 am
Aisha
Comment by lars — November 24, 2005 @ 11:04 am
I think I wrote a text but it is not there
ADMIN COMMENT:
I am reading all the comments before they are posted. -This means that sometimes it takes some hours before comments are online.
Best regards - Hans Henrik
Comment by lars — November 24, 2005 @ 11:05 am
people that gets so easily offended should just stay indoors.
see no shit,talk no shit,hear no shit.
people need to learn that people laughs at different things.
what may be deadserious to you,may be the joke of the day for me.
ACCEPT IT.
Comment by Mads — December 2, 2005 @ 6:54 pm
I’m a Dane and I think that this debate shows why my fundamental belief, that religion is the main cause of misery on this planet, is absolutely correct. God only exists in the minds of the brainwashed and it’s completely grotesque that anyone is willing to take offence, or even kill, someone else for making fun of such child-like fantasies. Scientific studies shows that the less religius a society is, the more peaceful it is, so hooray for atheism! I never discuss with religius people because I consider them all to be maniacs that believe in things who are as likely to be true as the existance of father christmas or the Loch Ness monster…
Comment by Erik — December 3, 2005 @ 12:12 am
Mohd is the Prophet of Assassinations
Many events describing how Muhammad used to order the secret assassinations of his critics are quoted in his Muslim biographies including the following:
A man who was able to see that Muhammad was living off banditry in the guise of religious rituals was Julas bin Suayd bin Samat. He was upset at this state of affairs which Muhammad had led his followers into and, in
his frustration at his fellow Ansar being turned into bandits who regularly prayed to God but weren’t able to differentiate between moral and immoral, he taunted his fellows by saying, `if Muhammad was a true prophet, we wouldn’t be worse than asses’. In other words, he meant that Muhammad’s leadership had turned his followers into worse than donkeys. However, the critic’s
step-son named Umayr bin Sa’d, an informer, reported these words to Muhammad. Julas was so scared of being murdered by Muhammad’s secret assassins that he rushed to Muhammad and swore that he had not said anything against Muhammad. The brother of Julas, whose name was
Harith bin Suayd bin Samat, escaped and joined the Meccan
Quraysh[i] but he later returned to Medina and was found and murdered!
on Muhammad’s orders[ii].
Another man who saw what evils Muhammad had added into Abraham’s religion was a monk by the name of Abu Amir-Abd-Amru. When Abu Amir saw his people accepting Islam, he migrated to Mecca along with a group of virtuous people who were too weak to resist the Muslims. When
Muhammad heard about the monk’s migration, he said, `don’t call him a monk but call him a sinner’. When the Muslims later conquered Mecca , Abu Amir fled to Ta’if. When the people of Ta’if accepted Islam, the monk
migrated to Syria and died in exile and poverty[iii].
In Medina there was a very old man named Abu Afak of the Banu Amr bin Auf tribe of the Banu Ubayda clan. Abu Afak was grieved when Muhammad made it lawful for Muslims to kill and, because of his old age, was fearless
enough to speak the truth. He said:
I have lived long but never seen a people,
More zealous in fulfilling their promises
More zealous in hospitality
Than the Ansar - the offspring of Qayla -
The maternal ancestress of Aus and Khazraj
The Ansar would overthrow mountains rather than submit
But their guest Muhammad has bewitched them
Through his preaching; Muhammad says in one breath
‘Allowed’ and `forbidden’ for same sort of things
Mixing halal [lawful] with haram [unlawful]
Abu Afak had made the correct diagnosis of Muhammad’s sociopathy: In his lust for power, Muhammad had failed to distinguish right from wrong. Like most sociopaths who lose their temper when their true crimes are revealed, Muhammad was extremely offended at Abu Afak’s revelations and said to his devotees, `who will deal with this rascal for me?’ One of the most zealous devotees Salim bin Umayr assassinated Abu Afak in the darkness of night. After the secret assassination, one of Muhammad’s poets named Umama bin Muzayriya boasted:
You [Abu Afak] dared to charge Allah’s religion
And Muhammad of lies
Hence a sincere Believer gave you a plunge
In the darkness of late night saying,
‘Take this Abu Afak - a gift to your old age’
Whether it was a jinn or man who slew you
I wouldn’t say who it was.[iv]
The phrase, `whether it was a jinn or man’ needs explanation: Muhammad’s devotees had spread the word that ghosts called jinn protected Muhammad and killed for him. This propaganda was part of the `fear generation’
that was common among the superstitious and one aspect of the psychological control that inspired awe, respect, and adoration among the ill-informed, illiterate and highly superstitious people who followed prophets
and mystics in Arabia [[1]]. That is how many prophets and mystics intimidated and controlled their followers in ancient Arabia . However, there were daring people who laughed at such superstitions. When the news of
Abu Afak’s murder spread, a woman named Asma-bint-Marwan
was deeply grieved. Asma was a woman of the Banu Umayya bin Zayd tribe and she was married to a man of the Banu Khatma tribe. She understood that it was not ghosts - the jinn - but Muhammad’s devotees who had
assassinated Abu Afak. In her grief, she spoke the truth in
blaming Muhammad !and his followers and addressed her townsmen revealing
Muhammad’s ambitions as follows:
By the common ancestor of the Medinian tribes,
You are obeying an alien in killing your own chiefs
And raising the alien’s hopes about you
Like a hungry man waiting for a cook’s broth
Is there no man of honour to rebel against this vile group?
And dash the hopes of the profit seeker?
[1] In the Twenty-first Century, the `pirs’ or so-called `holy men’, in Pakistan and India, and many other countries, still control the minds of millions through
similar means as Muhammad used, inspiring awe, respect, and adoration in the subjects’ minds. The phenomenon is not particular to Muhammad or other prophets and has its own psychodynamics. The interested reader may
find Tehmina Durrani’s description of the life of pirs in Pakistan , and their control over the local peasants’ minds, very revealing. See her book titled,
`Blasphemy’.
[i] Syrah, vol. 1, p. 578-581.
[ii] Syrah, vol. 2, p. 72-73.
[iii] Syrah, vol. 1, p. 673-675.
[iv] Syrah, vol. 2, p. 780-781, and, A. Guillaume, `The Life of Muhammad’, p. 675.
When Muhammad heard what Asma had said he told his assassins, `Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?’, and one of the devotees, Umayr bin Adiy-al Khatmi, who was from the tribe of Asma’s husband, killed Asma the same
night. In the morn¬ing the murderer Umayr came to Muhammad and told him what he had done and Muhammad blessed him, `O Umayr! You have helped God and His Apostle’. However, Umayr was afraid of retaliation from Asma’s
five sons and he told Muhammad he was afraid. Muhammad replied in his cryptic symbolic tongue, `not even two goats will butt their heads about her’. To protect his assassin, Muhammad sent a challenge to Asma’s tribe,
the Banu Khatma, `I have killed the daughter of Marwan, O sons of Khatma! Now stand against me if you can; don’t keep me waiting.’ The threat worked and, fearful of Muhammad’s assassination methods, the men of the Banu
Khatma came to Muhammad and became Muslims. Muhammad’s official poet Hisan bin Thabit celebrated the Muslim victory over! a defenceless woman as follows:
Your tribes, the Banu u Wa’il, the Banu Waqif and the Banu Khatma
Are inferior to the Banu Khazraj - the Ansar
In her grief, when she called upon her tribes to stupidity
Death befell her - as it was hovering over her head
She challenged Muhammad - a man of glorious origins
Noble in his demeanour and manners
Hence, before midnight he dyed her in her own blood
And was still not a sinner[i]
The last verse, `and was still not a sinner’ needs explanation: Because Muhammad had made lawful the secret killings of those who tried to reveal the truth behind his `apostolate’, his assassins felt blessed and were
free from guilt; they were not sinners even after a wanton murder. This is what poor Abu Afak had meant when he had said that Muhammad had made moral what used to be immoral. Also, the criterion for `nobleness’ had changed; a noble in Islamic terminology was the one who would kill Muhammad’s critics [[1]].
At these assassinations, ordered on the basis of reports of Muhammad’s spies, Nabtal bin Harith remarked: `Muhammad believes in anything that people tell him’. Again, Muhammad’s spies informed him about the remarks and he said, `if you want to see the Devil, look at Nabtal bin Harith’[ii]. Then Muhammad issued threats hidden in `divine revelations’:
Among them are those who hurt the Apostle
By saying that the Apostle believes in all that is told to him
Say to them the Apostle believes to benefit you
And trusts and blesses the Believers
As for those who hurt the Apostle
There will be painful punishment. (The Qur’an, ch. 9 verse 61).
On another occasion, Muhammad called his assassin Abdallah bin Unays and said that he had heard that Khalid bin Sufyan bin Nubayh of the Al Hudhayl tribe was gathering people to attack him, and hence should be killed. Abdallah asked Muhammad to describe Khalid so that he could recognize him, and Muhammad said, `when you will see him he will remind you of Satan. A sure sign is that when you will see him you will feel a shudder.’ Abdallah’s testimony in first person can be quoted as follows:
`I went in search until I found Khalid with a number of women in a howdah seeking a resting place. It was the time for afternoon prayer, and when I saw Khalid I felt a shuddering as the Apostle had said. I feared that something would prevent my prayers and so I prayed as I walked towards him with my head bowed. When I approached Khalid, he asked who I was and I answered, `an Arab who has heard of your gathering a force against this fellow and has come to help you.’ He said, `Yes, I am doing so.’ I walked a short distance with him, struck him with my sword, killed him, and ran off leaving his women bending over him. When I returned to the Apostle and he saw me, the Apostle said, `Is the task accomplished?’ I said, `I have killed him, O Apostle,’ and he said, `You are right.’ Then he took me into his house and gave me a stick telling me to keep it. When I went out with it the people asked me what I was doing with a stick. I told them that the Apostle had given it to me and tol!
d me to keep it, and they said, `why don’t you go back to the Apostle and ask him why?’ So I did so, and the Apostle said, `This stick will be a sign between you and me on the resurrection day. There are few men who will be carrying such sticks then.’
So Abdallah bin Unays fastened the stick to his sword and it remained with him until his death. He bequeathed that the stick should be placed in his winding sheet and so it was buried with him. Abdallah had boasted about his assassination of Khalid as follows:
I left that son of a cow or that of a camel
In a state where all around him
His women mourned and tore their dresses in grief
My sparkling Indian sword had swallowed him.
Before cutting his head, I told him
`I am the son of a rich and generous man
And I follow the straight religion of Muhammad
So take this plunge from a noble man
When the Apostle decides to kill an unbeliever[iii]
I fall upon him with my tongue and my hands’[iv]
One might question that though most of Muhammad’s warrior devotees were poor, why did then Abdallah say in his verse, `I am the son of a rich and generous man’? The answer may be found in a detailed analysis of the
Bedouin culture of Medina and the psychology of the Bedouins as revealed in their poetry. A large part of old Arabic poetry consists of boasting about one’s wealth and generosity and taunting one’s rivals of being poor or stingy. Abdallah also boasted about being `noble’ while we know from cultural studies of the period that truly noble Arabs wouldn’t assassinate on someone else’s orders.
Secret assassinations of a few men and women who had cast doubts on Muhammad’s claims to prophethood created an atmosphere of fear in Medina and more and more people began to revere and fear Muhammad. A large number of people accepted Islam to get rid of the fear of murder hanging over their heads but in their hearts many still respected their Jewish neighbours and their scholars[v]. Gradually most of the non-Jewish people of Medina began to follow Muhammad’s still developing religion. When the Aus tribal chief Sa’ad bin Mu’az became a Muslim, his whole tribe accepted `Islam’[vi]. However,
secret assassinations were carried out all through Muhammad’s career as the `Prophet’ and will be described in this work as chronologically as is possible.
[1] This criterion for nobleness has lasted to modern times; In British India the Muslims hailed the murderer Ghazi Alam Din as a hero who had murdered the author of the book, `A Colourful Prophet’; The Iranian Ayatollahs issued death sentence against Salman Rushdie for writing the `Satanic Verses’ guaranteeing that Rushdie’s killer would enter Paradise. See here the desire to emulate Muhammad’s behaviour to full extent.
[i] Syrah, vol. 2, p. 781-783.
[ii] Syrah, vol. 1, p. 580-581.
[iii] Syrah, vol. 2, p. 760-763.
[iv] Part of the translation comes from A. Guillaume, `The Life of Muhammad’, p. 666.
[v] Syrah, vol. 1, p. 573.
[vi] Syrat-al-Nabi [The Prophet’s Biography], vol. 1, p. 158.
Comment by Lootah abdulla — December 3, 2005 @ 7:47 am
Lootah abdulla
Comment by lars — December 3, 2005 @ 12:51 pm
Here is my drawing of Muhammed:
:-)
(Copyright 2005, Lasse Hiller?e Petersen)
From now on everyone using a smiley will be insulting Islam.
Have a nice day.
(Oh, and if you haven’t already, read the Egoland cartoon in the newspaper Politiken from the last few months. Olfax lets GOd himself hand out some PUNches agains Muhammed (PUBAH).)
-Lasse Hiller?e Petersen
Comment by Lasse Hiller?e Petersen — December 4, 2005 @ 1:42 am
Here is my drawing of Muhammed:
:-)
(Copyright 2005, Lasse H. Petersen)
From now on everyone using a smiley will be insulting Islam.
Have a nice day.
(Oh, and if you haven’t already, read the Egoland cartoon in the newspaper Politiken from the last few months. Olfax lets GOd himself hand out some PUNches agains Muhammed (PUBAH).)
-Lasse H. Petersen
Comment by lasse H. Petersen — December 4, 2005 @ 1:44 am
Ok theres alot of badmouthing left and right here, and people seem to forget the most fundemental part of this situation.
The drawings were done not as a political or religious statement, but as a way of celebrating the freedom of speech. This could have been done by making a porn movie set around “the last supper” or making a rap song where the american president is describing his sexual actions with his daughter. These subjects will always offend someone but that doesnt make them anymore than what they are, a expression of freedom.
The funny thing is that had the muslim community not completely overreacted to this, the drawings would have been forgotten now, but their uproar is only fueling the debate and increasing their popularity.
As a dane I will gladly apologise to anyone who has been offended by the drawings, but it would not stop me from making drawings like these myself.
Several times through this blog there has been muslims stating that it is not allowed to depict mohammed, but since this “law” is a muslim law it cant very well be forced upon non-muslims can it?
I’ll admit that some of the drawings are controversial, as they draw a line between mohammed and terrorism, but still, its just the expression of a little danish cartoonist, nothing to be taken seriously.
In conclusion I’ll say this:
You will never be able to put a stranglehold on the danish freedom of speech that we danes cherish so much, so this discussion is mute.
Take it easy
Faux
Comment by Faux — December 9, 2005 @ 3:42 pm
there are much worse things in life to worry about, Christians have gone through the mockery of Jesus through the cinema and other forms of media, thats life!!! Get over it, its just a cartoon.
Comment by kt — December 10, 2005 @ 2:27 am
If Jews,Christians and Muslims follow what their holy books realy teach them to do, there will be peace in the world. There is no compulsion in religion and God will judge all of us on the day of judgement. Let us get to know one another as decent and equal human beings let us focus on the common grounds that are similar between our faiths and work to bridge the gap on the things we differ about. There is nothing more peaceful than an objective positive human dialogue that is meant to make the world a better place to live.
Comment by Salah Salah — December 11, 2005 @ 8:30 pm
we hate you,stop doing these evils and stop making fun of our Prophet (S.A.W).God would never ever forgive you,You have invited to His anger.we hate u from our very heart,very very very much who have done this.
Comment by aashi — December 14, 2005 @ 6:47 am
The 12 famous Mohammed Cartoons created by Danish artists for the newspaper Jyllands Posten.
There is so much talk about them,but who has actually seen them all?
Muhammed Cartoons
Comment by Muhammed — December 14, 2005 @ 6:44 pm
the lord of the world never forget you. you’ve tried to disrespect his most beloved.you never knew what high status he(may allah’s all blessings be upon him)have in our hearts &our minds.he lives in our soules , in our hearts.
but how could you know……..
you who pretend to be the biggest protecters & defenders of human rights…….
but you never knew the respect of others……
you the slaves of saten…………………..
you the offsprings of monkeys & pigs…or the friens of them……… how could you know to respect the others………………………
now listen what he is for us……………..
a man who struggled so hard
When his mission was from the start.
The story of someone who had morals,
Spoke gently; kindness he knew.
Never fearing to say what’s right,
His conviction in Islam was true.
The touch of his hand was as soft as silk
To comfort a crying child
To mend his clothes or do the chores,
Never complaining, he always smiled.
His smell was always of musk,
And cleanliness he kept at his best.
Stark contrast with the heroes of today,
Who stink of beer and sweat.
He held the hands of his Companions,
Unashamed to play with many children.
So modest, so humble, a perfect example
That strangers could not recognize him.
His eyes slept little for nights were precious,
His prayers he treasured much greater.
To pray Tahajjud(night prayers) in the depths of night,
Seeking forgiveness, and nearness to his Creator.
He broke his tooth for us(humanity) at Uhud
And bled for us at Ta’if.
He cried for us, tears of concern,
Just so we could have this belief.
His enemies admired his teachings,
Uniting every religion, every clan.
Till Islam came to every corner of the world,
O, but indeed he was only a man.
To own a house or build his wealth,
Was not his main priority.
To establish Islam was more essential,
To bring us under a higher authority.
Don’t you want him to plead for your case
When before Allah the Judge you stand?
Don’t you wish to be around his fountain,
A burning desire to drink from his hand?
So we love him more than all creation,
our leader, our humble Prophet.
Muhammad was a mercy to all mankind
And to us he is our beloved.
and we always have a burning hatred for those who try to disrespect him……………………….
our beloved ,most beloved, our prophet,………
and there is coming a day when…………….
we will indeed take the serious revenge of what you have done.
Comment by nusaibah — December 17, 2005 @ 6:07 am
aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggg dolph is fucking mad, you should have knock with my bat. you are all 100% pure assholes. Real men don’t cry over some child illustrations from a news paper. I think the Muslims should be pleased that we actualy want to give some attention to them. http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com You are all so 100 % pethetic.
Comment by lars — December 27, 2005 @ 12:25 pm
kan du så forstå det mariane
Comment by lars — December 27, 2005 @ 12:57 pm
plz respect our prohet no need for such insulting sings. take care of ur education and ur girls. the prophet called for peace and love. he was hurt when he was a live now u hurt hinm when he is dead. dont forget God punishment for those. it is not an easy thing to do so. be care ful
Comment by sami — January 2, 2006 @ 7:13 pm
dont do this to the great prophet. leave him a lone
Comment by sami — January 2, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
its funny isn’t I a mean you are not aloud to draw mohammed but you can name your child mohammed, it just doesn’t make sense.
you muslims should relax take it easy, enjoy the new year make some fun of the none religius people from denmark make us laugh. and come over it, dont cry over spiled milk. take it as grand of salt.
Comment by lars — January 3, 2006 @ 11:17 pm
no god but allah and mohamed his prophit and u ll see what will happen to u at the end
Comment by bassent — January 4, 2006 @ 7:41 pm
Peace be to you,
When you have cooled down, learn bit more about Islam, before you abouse / talk false about it.
Try: http://www.islam-guide.com/
Comment by Nazrul — January 4, 2006 @ 9:49 pm
ok, so it is my turn… YAY!!! BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE, kudos to the person who put up the BIG FUCKING DEAL image with the hand jacking it off! OH MY, that had me laughing so hard for a straight 20-30 minutes, and i am still cracking up about it! now you see people, before i go on my little rant, remember this: my established institutions call their fellows “ignorant savages”. often, those who call others that title are really themselves the ignorant savages. i call others ignorant savages, because i know enough about myself to call myself an ignorant savage. how about you? think about it, THINK AND SEEK TRUTH! now for my rant, i hope this will be juicy. it will be insulting, alrightly so, i think. ok here goes:….
to all the religious nutjobs out there reading this, christians, muslims, jews, hindus, hell all seriously religious people, STOP FUCKING THE WORLD UP! we want to be free of the millenia old oppression of our free will. i find it so fascinating that a bunch of devote muslims even bother posting about this tiny issue, i mean come on! get over it!!!! any human who can’t laugh at the stupidity of their own life and religion needs to get a life! course, those are the stupid people. i mean life is before us, LIVE IT!! and yes, the people of islamic faith need to get a life, but so do others of other faiths. fucknut brained christians can go so crazy in this country over similarly simple and little things. sometimes i wonder if that agnostic guys is right about just waiting on the sidelines and pick up the ashes of of what may become our Radioactive Earth Mama. yes i said earth mother, i am a spiritual person, do not mistake me for an atheist. to get back to my point, why get so upset over some simple stupid pictures! as others have said, the laws of islam do not apply to the rest of us, you fr33kin blockheads!!! get a clue! and about this whole tiptoeing not to offend the poor muslims crap, i by my very nature offend other people, listen to this doozy. first off, as i have stated i am non monotheistic, i am an animist. as in i know and have experienced the existence of otherwordly beings first hand, admittedly in minor ways. next, i am bi sexual. yes you heard me right, as in i have a thing for people of both genders!!!! and i don’t buy into the whole losing yourself into drugs and crap of my homeland. which into focus the next offensive thing about me, i am american. i hate being one, i mean look at how fucked up and ultra hypocritical the US is and has always been!
so if you can suffer my existence, then why can’t you suffer the existence of 12, stupid, stinking pictures of a man with a beard and hat?
i would say more, and believe me i have plenty more to say, but i am just damn old tired at this time of the day. besides, half of you fucks don’t know your genitals from your ass when it comes to your collective brain power! remember THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is the greatest gift that was ever bestowed upon you!
-a thinking “ignorant savage” barbarian
PSS my pic of me, >:-)
my pic of islam’s founder, :-)
oops i offended an oversensitive fucker. get a life.
Comment by mylhendir — January 9, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
[…] So twelve people did on the newspaper posted all the photo’s. It caused (and still does) a huge debate about ‘Islam and free speech‘ and several Muslims launced a complaint. “The newspaper has with its action deliberately stepped on Islam’s ethical and moral values with the purpose of contempt and ridiculing Muslims’ feelings, their holy sites and their religious symbols,” the group said. (My italics, MdK) […]
Pingback by C L O S E R » Blog Archive » C L O S E R - Pictures of you — January 15, 2006 @ 4:14 pm
hey
in the very beginning i just wanna announce it in the loudest voice ever “i`m muslim ,i beleive in Allah ,i beleive in Mohammed(p.b.u.h),plus i`m very proud to be muslim”
so …….i can know the psychology of such people who does these stuff ,easily they are sick,SICK ,SICK ,nothing else.and wat do u think guys ?? is that away to critize ??? plus just for ur information that islam is the only way to peace …yes it is the only solution to our current problem..
i`m waiting for your answers on my e-mail((candybar93@hotmail.com))
Comment by Esra Mohammed — January 15, 2006 @ 9:14 pm
Dear Readers,
It is very sad and shameful to see how people throw their values behind their backs. I am a newly converted Muslim (I was a Chiristian Orthodox before that), and to tell you the truth while living with Muslims from different nationalities, I have never seen or heard any one mocking or making fun of Jesus, Moses, or Ibarhim may God’s peace be upon them. It is not only unacceptable to do so in Islam but considered to be sinfully mad. I have seen many debates from different walks of life on this matter (sadly some of them are very insultive and discremenative to Isalm). I was also astonished about the wrong portays and information some fellow readers have about Islam and Muslims.
Bottom line freedom of speech that people like to refer to doesn not mean insulting or mocking anyone’s beliefs. Briefly my point is: “You do not make your point or earn people’s respect by being impolite”
Peace be upon you.
Comment by Merz — January 18, 2006 @ 9:15 am
Dear All
Thanks alot for that enrichment of ideas, but could you grant me the space to correspond my view to you as follows : -
1- As for the depictions published in that danish newspaper, it is crystal clear that is of no significance, viz, what the output the artist has get out of these pictures. Could you find an answer for this question within yourselves? could these depictions be useful on the culture, religious … etc levels.
2- I am not to glorify prophet Muhammed, but let’s being somehow neutral. In the sense that not to believe what is being said or read. Start reading and skipping books, e. sites, launch that instinct of investigation that wonders within yourself to reach the truth. Be objective…
3- I can not suggest sites for you to hover on, however, it is your role to look here and there. You know, dears, it is not an easy matter. Set yourself free from that rumors and set your journey to discover the truth, not only for you but for your family, kins and kin, children, neighbors, colleques, beloved…. all.
Isn’t a great meassage.
Comment by Amro Naeem — January 19, 2006 @ 10:26 am
I think the cartoons are great. If members of the “religion of peace” are offended that’s even more great.
FREE SPEACH ROCKS!
Comment by George Sterling — January 23, 2006 @ 12:37 pm
DEARS IAM ASKING FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDINGS BEFOR YOU SAY ANY THING INSULTING ABOUT ISLAM TRY TO READ ABOUT IT BECAUSE ITS NOT ALWAYS IGNORAT BLESS AND PLEASE DONT JUDGE ISLAM BY SOME PEOPLE ACTIONS.
Comment by nour — January 24, 2006 @ 2:25 am
It’s just unfair doing this, and we as muslims would never even do the same to any of the mesengers of God either sent to Jews or to Christians. Only terrorists are those who provokes the feelings of others to create hatred… so look who is the terrorist.
See you on the judgement day.
Comment by Mohammed — January 24, 2006 @ 12:20 pm
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when in rome do as the romans when in the middle east do what muslims do,very simple betty
Comment by betty — January 24, 2006 @ 10:18 pm
to all pepole who love justice and fairness think is it wright to make fun of aman who is loved by thousands of pepole try to ask your selves why we love him as aman not as agod the way he asked us to do, read about him and what ghandy said about him may god bless us all with knowledge.
Comment by nour — January 25, 2006 @ 3:22 am
so these are the pictures, that cartoon does not look like a sultaan to me he looks more like a sikh or one of those 1880s british men with that scruffy beared you got the whole concept wrong who ever made those cartoons. the prophet is not imaginable he is one of a kind no one can match him specialy a petty little cartoon what george w bush has drawn cos thats all he can do cos he is a cartoon lol. last thing you cant draw prophets let it be Isa or the sultaan allah hafiz and may he burn you in hell and shuv those pictures up your ass at the same time bye
Comment by Zakib Khan — January 26, 2006 @ 5:27 am
I am amazed, I am impressed, why on earth does muslims become so offended by nothing, and I repeat once again: relaaaaaaaaaax. It is just some naive drawing. The next thing how how childish to boycut Denmark because of the drawing. That is is pathetic. I repeat (fucking) pathetic.
Comment by lars — January 26, 2006 @ 4:44 pm
did I say pathetic, ya think I did
Comment by lars — January 26, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls….his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was two-fold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with the words.”
“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all the standards by which Human Greatness may be measured, we may well ask, Is there any man greater than he?”
(Lamartine, HISTOIRE DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp 276-
Comment by nour — January 26, 2006 @ 11:57 pm
You are right to stand up for free speech. Keep going!!!!!
Comment by Andrew C. — January 27, 2006 @ 4:29 am
THE TIME SHALL COME WHEN THE SOUND OF BOMBS SAYS THE FINAL WORD.
Comment by Bin Laden — January 27, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
Although one thinks what he is saying is ok, he is EXPECTED to avoid saying things other people might find disrespectful, otherwise he can be thought of as INCONSIDERATE.
Howabout what a 1000,000,000 people find disrespectful!
PLEASE and i mean please make this an Opportunity to learn about MOHAMMAD … use many sources.
best wishes every body..
Comment by Saad Saudi Arabia — January 27, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
How do you guys come up with your belief, that allah is the only god??Are your asses stamped with allah??
You got it from somebody right(parents/mullahs).
How do you know they are Right??
Use your own brain man.
Our belief is to live in this realistic world, where we have freedom of speech.
How can you issue death threats to our beliefs, just because we said/draw something offending to you??
God is not your property, You dont need to protect him. Stop acting in the Name of God.
Comment by CommonSense — January 27, 2006 @ 9:09 pm
Hey,
As much as you believe in Greately Greately Greately Greately Respected,. WHATEVER Muhammaud, We also believe in Freedom of Speech..
The News Paper did not publish the Cartoons in Your country.
It did it in a country where it is absolutely legal according to their beliefs.
What is the big deal???????????????????????????
Why don’t you respect other’s beliefs???????????
Why should it always be pleasant to you????????
How can you justify calling for execution of Salman Rushdie, Just because He said what he belives in????
Stop for a moment, and Think..
Limits on freedom of speech,,Ok.
Your laws has your limits,. because thats what you believe in.
Our laws has our limits based on our beliefs..
WHY DONT YOU RESPECT OUR LAW???????????????????????????
When we are in your country We Respect your law.
Why dont you respect ours???
Comment by Morris2000 — January 27, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
From Reading the e mails,it is crystal clear that no ward is enough to describe the muslims’feelings and also it is clear that others have no idea why the pictures caused big problems.According to most people the pictures are for fun and to illustrate freedom of speech.As simple as that.Unfortunately most people are not lucky enough to embrace Islam .We are the lucky ones and it is our duty to explain it to others.You have to be unbiased to see how such “small innocent drawings” would cause such a reaction.Islam is a great religion and Mohammed peace be upon him was a great messenger of Allah who conveyed his message.It changed everything at that time till today .If every body follows Isalm teaching there will be no problems in the world.Not all who called themselves muslims represent Islam.So be careful do not judge Islam from certain types of people who say they are muslims.Just go and read”in the right places” and discover the truth .We live in this short life but we will die and then we will go to Allah and he will asks us about our deeds and then my brothers we hope will be going to heaven and all the evil and bad will go to hell.May be it is our mistake that many people do not know the real Islam because we are mean to keep it to ourselves instead of telling the whole world about it.At the end it is our duty to stop everything hurting our religion and Prophet regardless of what you think of as FREEDOM which is in reality DISRESPECT.I will say May Allah will give you insight and not to be blind to see the truth in Islam.Please go and read read read .Yes we are muslims by birth but when we read Quran and see the miracles which still holds in the new millinum ,it is just astonishing.I will leave you with this miracle .We know that the sex of a baby is determined by the man chromosomes as the lady has xx and the man xy so if a man y chromosome joins the x chromosome of the lady it is a boy and if we have x from the man and x from the lady it is female.Believe it or not it is mentioned in the e Quran 1426 years ago.At the end of Surat Al Quiama”and we made from him”man” the couple the male and the female”
May Allah bless you all.
To see some of the scientific miracles of Quran please visit
www.hyahya.org
Comment by yousef — January 28, 2006 @ 9:53 am
salam, i call all muslim to abstain all DENMARK & NORWAY & USA products and educate your kids to read before buying any product and follow the above, from now ON.
and for MR. GOONTOWNYS, Iam TELLING YOU… WE WILL KEEP ON READING QURAN UNTILL THE JUDGMENT DAY AND UNTILL YOU COME ASKING TO JOIN ISLAM AND UNTIL YOU SEE MUSLIMS EVERY WHERE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT,
What i can make out from your comments that you are burning in & out, cause you know deep in your heart that our oil[ black gold] is a gift from GOD & it will never finsh until GOD decides
to do so. and as long as we have oil you guys will stand at the muslim’s doors step on a que with the technology, hahahaha
wish you a very good 100 thousands years of waiting for GOD’s descion.
our 5 prayer is our life, we have a faith for god on islamic way, thats why .. you are asking your self every seconds … why the muslims are increasing? cause we are the winners and closer to GOD at the end of the world. AND YOU DON’T WANT TO ADMIT THAT TO YOUR SELF. HAHAHAHAHA
Comment by muslima — January 28, 2006 @ 10:27 am
Here the other day I found out that the Dot . is a portrait of mohammed if you really look close up in a microscop.
if The Danes were living like those conservatiive midllleeast muslism we would still live as Vikings which means we were still sailinmg around a raping looting and that mean that all the weemen in Saudi arabia would have been raped byu vikings. and we would have told you all the great things about Thor and Odin and all the other great gods from that time. But thank god we have fucking moved on and you muslims from far far far away from Denmark must move on. fuck sake,
it is fucking childish to boycut Danish products because of a News paper ask the quistion how far the could go.
I hope to see a porn movie with mohammed one day, like that great movie Jens Jørgen thorsen made of Jesus and his group sex with 3 lovly girls.
and to all the muslims in here please do not write all the koran verse. that is not what this page is about.
Comment by lars — January 28, 2006 @ 10:31 am
This is racist. and it depicts the West’s tolerance to all races, religions, etc. We are with freedom of speech, but when it’s done is done cheaply and in a stupid rude way where mocking others is considered ‘art’ - then No thank you! Peace out.
Comment by Mafnooda — January 28, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
Oh, and if christians don’t care that Jesus is being mocked in movies and comices - well, guess what, thats ur problem ! We muslims do care about our Prophet. & if some1 wants to criticize him then there is something called ‘constructive criticism’. Freedom is speech isn’t about being rude and abusive. It is a right that should be used wisely and respectfully.
Comment by Mafnooda — January 28, 2006 @ 4:41 pm
P.S. Before you attack Islam, do your research. Don’t waste time reading books and getting news from the Media. Experience the real thing. Come down to the Middle-East, I suggest the United Arab Emirates. Live within it for a few weeks and interact with locals and muslims who infact do love their way of life. Maybe you guys will change ur mind.
Comment by Mafnooda — January 28, 2006 @ 4:45 pm
One more thing. Did you know that the United Arab Emirates (and many other Middle-eastern countries) is one of the fastest growing countries in the world? & it was built only within 25 years ! This desert oasis was converted into an urban city with state-of-the-art skycrapers, internationally recognized schools, hospitals, etc. Muslims live in it.& the level of un-educated is decreasing. Women are working, they’re driving, they’re independent. & FYI Islam provided rights to women way before a thousad years. Yes, hard to believe? DO UR RESEARCH ! Finally, please tell me, are we vikings? We are not calling ourselves ‘the best’ and we are not saying that u westerners are ‘the worst’ - every society has its positives and negatives. However, we are striving towards our best every single day and our religion (Islam) is our basis and foundation. And i do hope that ignorance lessens. Our world today is smaller and tolerance should be, if not, at least considered.
Comment by Mafnooda — January 28, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
to all you arabic people
http://www1.jp.dk/indland/doku/jp_aabent_brev.pdf
Comment by lars — January 28, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
this is not about racism, this is about why you cannot draw a religius person in a none religius country. Mafnooda you mix up too many things. it is about freedom og speach and freedom to express art.
this is about freedom of expression. That is what it is about.
Comment by lars — January 28, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
Come to Dubai lars . I am inviting u to stay for one month in my palace ;)
You will learn more about muslims civilisations
and cultures.
Comment by KOoL — January 28, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
Thanks for the invitation mate,
Comment by lars — January 28, 2006 @ 6:06 pm
Hello everybody.I have an Idea.If someone doesn’t like Islam noone can forse you to, if you hate it noone can force you not to hate it, but at least don’t offend Islam, or Mohhamad!My idea is to divide the islamic world with the western so that noone presents threat to eachother and so that noone can offend the other .I acctually hate muslims because of one reason, though I am muslim myself. I hate them because someone else is detrmining the prices of oil and yet they are asleep!I hate them because they are divided and the whole western world is laughing and making fun of them instead of joining all the islamic countries together so that noone can play with them anymore.If there is someone that i hate is the ignorance of muslims not others which are trying to defame Islam or Mohhamad (Aleyhi-Salam).
Comment by Riki — January 28, 2006 @ 7:23 pm
Riki u said “I hate them because someone else is detrmining the prices of oil and yet they are asleep ”
I am detrmining the prices of oil . whats wrong with that ? My country is arabic country and rich and we r not a sleep.
if ur country is poor , it is ur problem .
Comment by Victory — January 28, 2006 @ 8:04 pm
Like i said.If we don’t wanna face attacks on each other it is better do draw the line-border of Islamic world with the Western world.Islamic countries finally will manage with their natural resources and will set the price of oil the way they want and there will be no trouble at all.Christians and others which don’t like Islam will live in their world so they will stay far from eachother.Tey can do whatever they want.They even can take Israel from midle east to Europe if they like it so much.It would have been good example if they bring Israel to Denmark and Norway and they can make art as much as they want with them.
Comment by Riki — January 28, 2006 @ 8:21 pm