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um sorry, but that's not even in the same category of parody / satire. The Qur'an doesn't explicitly forbid visual depictions of Muhammad.

by lenley 16y ago

zaidf 16y ago
See, I am not even debating on the basis of what the Qur'an forbids. I am all about emotions. Every culture has random shit that upsets them. And if you keep hitting the soft spot again and again, a few wackos from those societies will go crazy. There is no need to even goto the Qu'ran for this - just understand that every culture, every religion has soft spots which when hit hard enough, will make a few go crazy. To think that you can change these super, super minority via logic is lame. To think this can change the view of a larger audience - there's nothing to change...super vast majority of Muslims are just offended when they find these stories and then go about their daily business. For me, it's like some dude cursing at my Mom. For 99.99% of the time, I will laugh it off. But do that enough times and to enough people and someone will be very ticked off.
- ezy 16y ago
  Honestly, I think a majority of the time, people mock it because they don't understand it. I don't. I believe what you say about being offended entirely, but I find it almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea. Getting mortally offended by just a picture of a historical figure -- is just wierd. Now, I could understand some mean mockery being offensive. A better example than the N word people have been using would be drawing MLK eating watermelom in blackface. That's really offensive, and unnecessary. You have to go out of your way to do something like that. But just a depiction of Mhd. in a lightly humorous or non-mocking context or a context that is ambiguous just doesn't seem like it would be a that much of gut punch -- taking that kind of offense just seems really thin-skinned to me and borne of silly religious dogma... (sorry). I'm fully willing to admit that I "don't get it", however. :-)

um sorry, but that's not even in the same category of parody / satire. The Qur'an doesn't explicitly forbid visual depictions of Muhammad.

by lenley 16y ago

um sorry, but that's not even in the same category of parody / satire. The Qur'an doesn't explicitly forbid visual depictions of Muhammad.

zaidf 16y ago

See, I am not even debating on the basis of what the Qur'an forbids. I am all about emotions. Every culture has random shit that upsets them. And if you keep hitting the soft spot again and again, a few wackos from those societies will go crazy. There is no need to even goto the Qu'ran for this - just understand that every culture, every religion has soft spots which when hit hard enough, will make a few go crazy. To think that you can change these super, super minority via logic is lame. To think this can change the view of a larger audience - there's nothing to change...super vast majority of Muslims are just offended when they find these stories and then go about their daily business. For me, it's like some dude cursing at my Mom. For 99.99% of the time, I will laugh it off. But do that enough times and to enough people and someone will be very ticked off.

ezy 16y ago
Honestly, I think a majority of the time, people mock it because they don't understand it. I don't. I believe what you say about being offended entirely, but I find it almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea. Getting mortally offended by just a picture of a historical figure -- is just wierd. Now, I could understand some mean mockery being offensive. A better example than the N word people have been using would be drawing MLK eating watermelom in blackface. That's really offensive, and unnecessary. You have to go out of your way to do something like that. But just a depiction of Mhd. in a lightly humorous or non-mocking context or a context that is ambiguous just doesn't seem like it would be a that much of gut punch -- taking that kind of offense just seems really thin-skinned to me and borne of silly religious dogma... (sorry). I'm fully willing to admit that I "don't get it", however. :-)