(October 10, 2011 at 11:55 am)ElDinero Wrote: 2. Will you be offended if I draw a picture of Mohammad? If so, why? And do you think violence is justified in response to offence being taken at something like this? If so, why?
I happen to have encountered an answer to this, from a Somali Bantu child's perspective. They don't draw images of people or animals, but see that as a restriction on what Muslims are allowed to do, it doesn't apply to non-Muslims (or photographs). Drawing a picture of Mohammed is not taken much differently, although questions about how does the drawer know what Mohammed looks like have arisen. Also, it's kinda mean to draw caricatures of him and how do Christians like people drawing funny pictures of Isha (Jesus)? But it's wrong to respond with violence and terrorists don't understand Islam.
It's just an answer though, not the answer. Islam isn't monolithic, and in the USA I expect it to splinter repeatedly when Muslims have more opportunity to mimic the American Christian habit of shopping around for places of worship.
