RE: Shots fired in Dallas of mohammed cartoons.
May 8, 2015 at 4:31 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2015 at 4:33 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(May 8, 2015 at 12:29 am)Hatshepsut Wrote:
I'm glad to see that someone realizes there is a culture war on. Although I'm not sure the beliefs in question are either superfluous (they form a core part of the personal identities of many believers) or un-serious (they weren't promulgated as jokes). Nonetheless, they are often harmful.
What strikes me with the Muslim thing about drawing Muhammad is this prohibition's ahistoricity. Islam originally forbade "graven images" because it wanted to set its followers apart from nearby pagans who used such images for religious purposes. It also betrays insecurity because a religion that perceives itself as resting on a solid foundation doesn't worry about outsiders who lampoon it. Some theists are able to poke fun at themselves, but conservative Muslims apparently can't.
The muslims probably got their phobia about Mohammed images from the Jews' First Commandment that prohibits idols. After all, Islam is a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.
