Re: Can you buy posters & post cards of Muhamed in Iran?
even if these pictures are available (i am sure they are, my urdu teacher claimed to have seen them when she took a trip to iran), they dont mean anything, just a painters wild imagination, nothing else and furthermore the idiotic cnn/danish guy is using that to compare a negative portrayal where they placed a bomb on his head, just to hurt ppls feelings
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We are just getting more specific about everything... are we accepting here that we can have paintings of Prophet if depicted in good taste... ..
anyway, the reaction of most guppies is about the Islamic world has reacted to the images. Everybody agrees that representation isn't in good taste.....
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I heard him yesterday saying on NPR that the pictures of the holy prophet are sold in Qum, Iran. Now this is from Slate, I wonder how many of our Shia posters know about this practice. That is truly against the teachings of Islam, not only this, its practiced so openly in one of the leading teaching centers of Shia faith.
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Bunch of retards...
Who knows if Jesus was actually Black?
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^ 
True. Whatever else Jesus looked like we know he wasn’t a paleface with blue eyes and blonde hair. Yet what to do you see in 90% of his statues and potraits? Thanks Leonardo not decaprio.
Anyway, let’s see if we can turn this into a useful k.t thread.
Why do muslims believe their religion prohibits idols and paintings or God? I know the H.Koran says that, but why does it say that? What is wrong if somebody uses their God given imagination and visualizes? I don’t understand the root cause for the rule. I asked somebody and the best they could come up with was “to avoid the possibility of the idol object being mistaken to be God instead of the God the idol represents”. That sounds pretty labored as a rationale for such a strongly held belief.
what do you think?
Re: Can you buy posters & post cards of Muhamed in Iran?
Ok, May be this will explain.... Hinduism has clear two modes of worship "Sakar Brahm = The GoD With Shape", and "Nirakar Brahm = THe God without Shape". The people beliveing in Nirakar Brahm i.e. Pure mediation, Yoga etc don't prefer Idols, they concentrate on Sprituality, which they say that doesn't have any shape and size. They say that if you put a shape to GOD than you are constraining yourself in worship.
The people with Sakar Brahm say that without a shape to GOD, its impossible for a layman to concentrate on GOD, since a motal human being needs something to concentrate on. They go ahead in saying that as you go deeper and deeper in devotion you start realizing the powers those are manifested behind that Idol, and you tend to get to real GOD.
So as a Hindu most of the time you have right to choose what path to GOD you want to take.
I haven't gone to temple for many a many years since I believe in Mediation......
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The fact that the Prophet was depicted is not the issue, it it is the hate speech.
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For majority of Muslims it is an Issue ! later is just fueling the fire.
reg the topic, I was surprised to see a protrait in an encyclopedia saying it is portrait of Hazrat Ali (ra) and it is common in Iran . I took it lightly but some days later I saw the same portrait in an artcle in time magazine showing a house in iran. the portrait was hanging on the wall in the background.
If someone remembers and correct me if i am wrong...
Some years ago In USA some organization made series of sculptures and It also made sculpture of Muhammad(pbuh) showing him holding book (quran) in one hand and sword in other and gave the title of something like most influential law maker or something along the lines.
Muslim organization protested and got it removed ( although it was not intended to provoke insults or something)
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no i could very well imagine it being done in some iranian circles though i dont think in those who follow clerics. i remember seeing a picture of "Hazrat Ali" as a kid which was widely regarded as offensive in subcontinental shias. I think its a cultural thing restricted to Iranian "Malang"s.
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Think it'll be better suited here than in Religion forum.
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Al-Arbiay news said that in Iran they sell posters and rugs with images of the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi wassalam. Because Shi^a consider it lawfull to draw Him Sallallahu Alayhi wa sallam.
That's why you see them sometimes carrying pictures of what they claim to be "Hadrat al-Hussayn" and in some cases the Prophet sallallahu Alayhi wa sallam himself!!
Please vote NO against pringint the cartoons in canada:
www.alsunna.org/voteno.htm
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^ that being the case, why then do muslims expect that non-muslims should not draw the prophet's picture?
Then the cartoongate becomes a simpler matter of the way he is portrayed and not the fact that he was portrayed.
welcome to the club of god and holy men who have been made fun of, insulted and worse.
In India, a leading painter (M.F.Hussein I think) drew a Hindu Goddess naked
In NY, someone atually put up an art exhibition with a picture of Mary with waste painted on
There were protests in both cases but it didn't lead to head banging bus burning bomb throwing consulate busting fatwa screaming war of the worlds.
With all these shenanigans, all that has happened is that the cartoons have been republished a 1000 times more. Dozens of your brotheren have been killed. The concept muslim violence has been further imprinted in non-muslim minds. Is that what you want?
bottom line why can't some muslims religious leaders stand up and clarify to the muslims these things instead of further inciting riots?
Re: Can you buy posters & post cards of Muhamed in Iran?
bottom line why can't some muslims religious leaders stand up and clarify to the muslims these things instead of further inciting riots?
**Bottom Line: **Why can't idiots refrain from insulting other people's opbjects of affection and devotion that lead to such acts?
Ahmad G: 'Tis done...
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you answered it yourself - they're idiots. But this violent reaction makes it worst