Obviously, Mr. Iftikhar is in need of the Five Point Program for “Deflawing” Islam so once again we provide this service free of charge:Are you ready? Using “The 77 Branches of Islamic “faith” a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true “faith” (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings.” i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs. “1. Belief in Allah”aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc.” should be added to your cleansing neurons.”2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence.”Evolution and the Big Bang or the “Gib Gnab” (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the “akas” for Allah should be included if you continue to be a “creationist”.A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No angelic thingies” ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and “tinker bells”. Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented. “4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore.”Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans. Prophets were invented by ancient scribes typically to keep the uneducated masses in line. Today we call them fortune tellers.Prophecies are also invalidated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.”5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone.”Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a “pretty wingy thingy”. Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed’s “fast, hunger-driven” hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers. Accept these five “cleansers” and we guarantee a complete recovery from your Islamic ways!!!!

Arslan Iftikhar, the clerics in Pakistan could put a price on your head (fatwa). I am in full support of your views. But note that Pakistan has banned all Facebook because of the competition of drawing Prophet Muhammad’s face. That’s BLASPHEMY according to Quran. Is it not ?The specific quote from Quran [005:033] states this:YUSUFALI: “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;”By supporting Free Speech Rights (First Amendment), you are indeed in violation of the Quranic dictates as quoted above. If Islam prohibits painting Prophet’s picture, no matter how redundant such ban might appear to you and others today, your opposition, as viewed your stated support for Free Speech, means you are opposing Allah’s decree (which is Islamic dictates). And, at the same time you state to love Prophet Muhammad. These two are contradictory. Hence you could be viewed as creating mischief. To you it may seem OK and fine, but to clerics or orthodox Muslims such as in Pakistan this is not a joke. It is blasphemy, and the punishment for blasphemy could be death (as stated explicitly in the Quran). Am I totally wrong, Mr. Ifthikar ?

What would Mohamed do?From Wikipedia:Sounds like he kept himself busy with profound and sublime thoughts. As a man of decency and dignity, he waited till Aisha was 9 or 10 before having intercourse with her. Anyone “moderate” out there have a 9 or 10 year old daughter? Arsalan Iftikhar writes above, “I can honestly say that I love both my Prophet Mohammed and cartoons like South Park.” What exactly is so unique and special about Mohammed that inspires such effusive rhetoric? The good things in the islam are in every religion. The bad things are not.

The United States of America is a Christian nation based on Christianity whether Obama, Progressive liberals, and Muslim / Islamic peoples like it or not.Obama is a National DISGRACE.

For many muslims physical description of prophet Muhammad carries an emotional punch similar to the holocaust for the Jews. Both are sacrosanct issues that have to be accepted and not debated. Holocaust deniers have been convicted, jailed and ostracized over the years. Muslims want the same for anyone who defies their basic belief that Muhammad should not be graphically depicted in any form, cartoon or otherwise.

ignoranceisbliss:

Dear SPIDERMEAN2: It was because of “REASONING” that the United-Sates Of (Holy) America, born via Miracle and not Sin, was made possible! And it was/is Curiosity that got us into this post Atomic and Electric age. And it took “Collective Consciousness” that made this planet a better world to enjoy on, during ones current Amazing [Odyssey] Birth awareness. Not born into Sin or via Curses. Sorry! Remember the ENLIGHTENMENT? Note: Many ‘Believers’ [Secular-Classes, not only of the theology or Deist Classes] died for this so called “REASONING” of which you boldly or ignorantly flout. And MANIFEST DESTINY, is same as saying, “Invisible-Hand.” And the word “NATURE” is same as saying EVOLUTE or keep MOVE, based on Holy Temperature. So, Amazing-Nature + Amazing Grace = OUR RELIGION-FROM-NATURE, not [MY] RELIGION-FROM-DEITY(s). And every Body/Mind has Religion. Be it belief/feelings in the old “Let There Be Biblical LIGHT story” or the Modern “Let There Be PHOTON Story.” Did you know (Modern-World) that we humans use the venom of SPIDERS (less MEAN2) as a way to Stop Pain in Modern Medicine (not by Shamans, not by Prayers nor Meditation)?Like wise, all our awareness via 6+ senses lets us experience Reality by challenging us, tempting us and or Pushing-Us so elegantly (even though Miraculous-LIFE can be rough and tough) into understanding what this amazing INVISIBLE-WORKER (as if god is the Employer) being “Holy-Nature” a/k/a One with many-Names is simultaneously doing for itself (thus also Surviving for its own sake) and US (Being FROM: and in the Middle of its Miraculous Work (never Sin) includes the current-Events taking place in our Nation and on Earth (internally and Externally) and In [THIS] life via holy-time? HOPE + TIME = ONE RELIGION. [Nature + god. Or god + 0 Nature. or Nature + 0 god or 0 god + 0 Nature. Or none of the above. So TAKE YOUR PICK]. Enjoy [LIFE/this] while you can. So if you believe in an “After-Life” or No such “FAIRY TALES”, then Live and let live.RELIGION IS NO SCIENCE. Religionists want it to be so. Note: Albert Einstein Only Told the Jewish/Christian, Islamic, Vedic/Buddhist World WHAT they-Wanted-To-Hear!? So “RELIGION” and SCIENCE is “IMPOSSIBLE” to Compare. Example: Biblical “water” or biblical “light” (RELIGION story) is no match or has no place for in the Secular/Atheist/Deist thinkers that “H2O” and “PHOTONS” (SCIENCE story) are contrary to ANY, EVERY and ALL man-made Mono-Theo or Poly-Theo Religion Exigency’s in existence today and future. (even if a Human imagines/believes god spoke and wrote such STORY or “MYTH”, is not Comparative-Science. Contrary to comparative-Religions).

There are THREE valid reasons why evolution is false. I hope all evolutionists read this so I don’t keep on repeating myself.Reason no. 1 — it is impossible that a single-celled bacteria can become or transform into a two-celled bacteria or into a multiple-celled organism. There is no available science to explain such a fairy tale. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 2 – soil and water existed before any living thing existed. It is impossible that those brainless substances (soil and water) can form by themselves a very complex matter called plants and animals. There is no available science to explain that such a transformation is possible. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 3 — Science is the study of nature. Engineering is part of that kind of science. Engineers took many years to extract energy from sunlight and even at this moment they are still scratching their heads how plant leaves has been doing it for eons already. The level of intelligence nature demonstrates is just beyond human intelligence. The only probable explanation is the existence of a Supremely Intelligent Creator.With these THREE valid reasons, I don’t think I mentioned faith or religion. EVOLUTION IS A MYTH BASED ON REASON.POSTED BY: SPIDERMEAN2 | MAY 20, 2010 11:35 AMA single cell cannot become a multi-celled creature? Talk about showing your ignorance. Do you know nothing about how you were born, the facts of life, sex, sperm/eggs etc. Oh, by the way, even if science cannot as yet give an explanation for something it does not mean that the answer is “god dunnit”, it means that, as yet, science cannot give an explanation.

Religion is an excuse for one’s failure to think for ones self.

Before spending time to think about the ideas of making cartoon on prophet Muhammad (PBUH)will it not be a right thing to take a neutral stand first and then read authentic books on prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the last & final testament Holy Quran to understand him and his teachings.

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The use of the parable is well-inspired but, sorry, as it is known, the antagonist in the parable is not a woman but a jewish neighbor. Touched by the Prophet’s behavior, the Jew finally converts to Islam.

Abu Safian was the chief of Mecca when Mohammad was a child. He was a world class trader. His Caravan from Syria to Mecca was attacked in first ghazwah. His son was Moawyia, the writer of Koran. What Yazid, the son of Moayia, did with the grandson of Mohammad in the holy month of Ramadan was not a joke. The religion which literally means peace for mankind has become symbol of terrorism due to failure of its followers.

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Mohammed himself was an arch-terrorist. He made peace agreements and broke them. Now, his followers have as a law that they are allowed to break their word as their disgusting cheat of a prophet did. He killed many innocents just like his followers do today. He raped, pillaged, and plundered, just like Muslims have done ever since. Islam is not a religion founded by Allah, who was a mere moon-god for the Arabs for hundreds of years already. Islam is a religion founded by Arabs as a reflection of the way they live. It means “submission” and that is certainly the Arab view of life.

I think “Draw Muhammed Day” is a great idea, as I think all religions are obsolete and a complete joke. I’m amazed that in 2010 people are still forcing themselves to accept fantasies and mythology as truth. I wish I could be alive in 500 years to see which new religions are in the mainstream and which have died off.

In case Mr. Iftikhar missed it the first time:Obviously, Mr. Iftikhar is in need of the Five Point Program for “Deflawing” Islam so once again we provide this service free of charge:Are you ready? Using “The 77 Branches of Islamic “faith” a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true “faith” (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings.” i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs. “1. Belief in Allah”aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc.” should be added to your cleansing neurons.”2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence.”Evolution and the Big Bang or the “Gib Gnab” (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the “akas” for Allah should be included if you continue to be a “creationist”.”3. To believe in the existence of angels.”A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No angelic thingies” ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and “tinker bells”. Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented. “4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore.”Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.”5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone.”Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a “pretty wingy thingy”. Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed’s “fast, hunger-driven” hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers. Accept these five “cleansers” and we guarantee a complete recovery from your Islamic ways!!!!

While teaching English to a class of soldiers in Saidi Arabia, words in a menu came up. “Teacher! What mean bacon?” I explained it’s meat from a pig and common in the western world. “You eat pig meat!” was the response. “Yes, I do. When I was a little boy my father put pig meat in front of me and told me to eat it. What would you do if your father told you to eat something?” I was met with silence. Then from the front row a soldier with a gleam in his eye asked, “How does it taste?” It blew me away.

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A great column.

Any (and every) religion is nothing more than an elaborate myth created to allay human fears of death and the unknown in general. People who lived in the time of Muhammad, or Jesus Christ, or Buddha, or whoever you pick, were basically no different than the people alive in the world right now. However, the fact that news traveled and spread almost entirely by word of mouth made ancient times ripe for the creation of myths. People need hope; quite often they are in desperate need of it. Every so often the stars aligned and a great salesman came along. When a few zealous, influential followers jumped on the bandwagon and started spreading the word, amazing things became possible. Add a few people with writing ability and the where-with-all to distribute it, then a bonfide movmement was possible.Many people, ancient or modern, want to believe, need to believe. For most of mankind’s existence, there was no way to check and see if what was being sold had any basis of truth. All the prayers to all the deities that ever existed have never changed the multi-faceted character flaws of human beings, or stopped the terror and havoc they often wreak. And of course, they never will. After all, we’re simply beseeching our own creations.

There are a number of cartoons making fun of the Holocaust. See the winner of the Iranian contest at: A Palestinian satire of the pope is found at: You can find images of “piss christ” all over the Internet.Yes, we see the attacks on Judaism and Christianity all the time; even from our own culture. But we don’t kill people who disagree with us.

Violence is the only argument of tyrants and fanatics. Never knuckle under to religious tyranny and superstitious opression!Give Trey Parker and Matt Stone each a medal for standing up for free speech!

Raoulduke: The prohibition in Islam against depiciting Muhammed doesn’t really have alot to do with Muhammed himself but rather because such depictions might lead to “idolatry”; that is, people will worship the images RATHER than god. It doesn’t matter if the pictures are actually accurate representations of what Muhammed looked like.No one know what Jesus of Nazareth looked like either but that doesn’t stop people from making all kinds of icons, statues, etc. The “traditional” Jesus with the beard and mustache looks almost identical to the traditional image of Zeus-Jupiter.The Muslims are entitled to their opinions and their beliefs. If they don’t want to look at pictures of Muhammed then don’t lool at them and don’t draw them. If they feel strongly enough about it, write a letter or organize a boycott.No one, however, is entitled to threaten and murder others for expressing THEIR beliefs, even if one finds them terribly offensive. Savagery is more offensive then ANY icon.

I am glad you do not want to kill over a cartoon, but your piece still demonstrates a primitive, dark age mentality. And you are apparently one of the ‘good’ muslims. The western world has no place for using such primitive and apparently undocumented parables for justifying peoples behaviour. If the muslim world wants to live this way, that is their buisness. There is no room for islam in the secular west. If the film footage of those muslim vermin attacking the old Swedish cartoonist is not enough to prove my point, then nothing is. Oh wait, how about the daily arrests of our imported muslims trying to blow things up in the US? Lets not forget the daily muslim terrorist attacks committed against fellow muslims in muslim countries.

I have heard three versions of this story about someone dumping garbage on the Muslim prophet. None quoted a reference. More importantly, such a meek behavior as claimed in the story is foreign to the character of the man as recorded in the biographies written by his followers.

Islam is just a pirated version of Judaism, with the revelation of Christianity thrown in, so Mohammed could make himself seem relevant to the times.

mohammed, the pedophile, would do the same thing that any other muslim criminal would do — kill you. I guess we could discuss whether he’d behead you old-school, or blow you up with a suicide belt.No one explodes themselves (and slaughters innocent men, women, and children) for political reasons. They do it for deep seated religious reasons. These killers call themselves muslims, and I think we can probably take them at their word. Nevermind. We’ll just keep telling ourselves, “islam is a religion of peace” — as the slaughter goes on. A slaughter, by the way, that is met with resounding silence from the “real” muslim community — probably for reasons of self preservation. You muslim apologists can pretend that muslim extremists are not “real” muslims. Perhaps we could ask what their victims would say. Just so there’s no confusion, the terms allah, mohammed, islam and muslim are all intentionally written here in lower-case letters as a sign of disrespect.

The real question is why so much attention to religion in our lives.God loves all human beings and lives equally and supports all religions. And expects us to remove bad things that have crept in every religion; For example: some religions do not treat women equally and so on.God wants us to explore and enjoy the universe he/she has created by indulging in science, math, biology, astronomy, gardening, cooking, raising children, playing sports, walking etc etc.

Why there is so much religion in people’s lives.God supports all religions and wants us to use common sense and expects us to get rid of bad things in our religion.He/She created this Universe for us to enjoy and explore.

I’m not Muslim and I don’t think much about Islam, but this campaign seems puerile. Like a kid trying to prove he’s big and important by annoying others. (“Hey, let’s have a ‘Call Mikey’s mother a wh*re day to show we have free speech!'”). I’m sure that if some foreign countries organized a “Let’s p*ss on the US flag day!”, Americans wouldn’t rejoice that they were asserting their right to freedom of expression. It would seem utterly stupid and it would be.

AK1967 did you know you are Presbyterian? From the Westminster Catechism: what is the chief end of man? to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Not that much of a stretch to include His creation.

Muslims can be hurt for anything remotely connected to Mohammed but they can do whatever they want in the name of freedom and artistic expression. Check this out, the whole page. So, I say, carry on guys, draw a million cartoons of this muhammad in the name of artistic freedom. Let Pakistan block all internet and let them go back to their caves, to dark ages.

So this is why Muslims treat women so badly, the old garbage grudge.

Islam, as with most other major religions, was founded by men to oppress others and gain power. By using mystical guidance, they convinced masses of people that they alone had the divine answers. Most major organized religions promote their singular and exclusive guidance of human thoughts and actions. The most fundamental proponents of these religions can not tolerate any careful, thoughtful examination of their basic tenets. That would expose the human intervention of the radicals that perverts the true word of “God”.

“With 2 billion Muslims, you’d think they could rein in the small percentage that is out of control.Have you ever heard any outrage from Muslims when innocent civilians are killed all over this planet by their extremists? The only time you hear outrage from Muslims is when their delicate sensibilites have been offended.

“End the immigration of Muslims?” Get real. I’m agnostic, and would love to deport you, ignorant Jesus-lover. Islam is not the cause of violence. Blind faith and radicalism within any religion is what leads people to violence. And throughout history, Christians have been just as guilty of violence and persecution as any other religion. So come off your high horse. We’re all going to keep bombing each other as long as you zealots keep drawing lines in the sand to separate us. Stop the brainwashing on both sides, and start regarding your ancient texts for what they are: folklore.

don’t most of you realize that even the bible says ‘no idol worship’? idol…..pictures, statues all those things in churches

Arsalan:You say the parable appears in”Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters” by Omid Safi.But there is no source of the parable given by Omid. Where did he get it? You put so much faith in the character of Muhammad because of that parable, does it not behoove you to try to find whether it is even remotely true or it is like the children stories created to make children feel good. Where is the original source? The same parable is told in the sunni middle east with the neighbor being a jewish man and not a woman, and the conversion of the Kaafir at the end is the big ending in both cases. However, both of these are fabrications. Now be serious and provide a source that at least goes back to the early Muslim scriptures.

I don’t know what Arsalan’s little parable will do to placate angry Muslims, but I guess we should assume that he understands the people he is trying to communicate with better than I do.Taking that into consideration, it is interesting that in order to communicate with that demographic he chose to portray the West as an “unruly female neighbor” that should be tolerated by the enlightened Muslim. I’ll leave you all to disect that metaphor in its appropriate cultural context. When you’re done, think about what it should tell us about the worldview of Arsalan’s target demographic.

What about the historic tale of Muhammad looking the other way when one of his followers murdered a poet for speaking against him?

Its easy to draw Mohammed. Just draw a rectum.

Wow–what a great story. It would make a wonderful children’s book to help promote the idea of islam as a religion of peace–except of course that if anyone tried to illustrate that book some jihadist wacko would threaten to cut off his head, blow up the publisher, etc.

Isaiah 14: 29 & 3029Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, ART DISSOLVED: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.Doomsday won’t spare Muhammedan Land.That’s the prophecy.

There are THREE valid reasons why evolution is false. I hope all evolutionists read this so I don’t keep on repeating myself.Reason no. 1 — it is impossible that a single-celled bacteria can become or transform into a two-celled bacteria or into a multiple-celled organism. There is no available science to explain such a fairy tale. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 2 – soil and water existed before any living thing existed. It is impossible that those brainless substances (soil and water) can form by themselves a very complex matter called plants and animals. There is no available science to explain that such a transformation is possible. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 3 — Science is the study of nature. Engineering is part of that kind of science. Engineers took many years to extract energy from sunlight and even at this moment they are still scratching their heads how plant leaves has been doing it for eons already. The level of intelligence nature demonstrates is just beyond human intelligence. The only probable explanation is the existence of a Supremely Intelligent Creator. With these THREE valid reasons, I don’t think I mentioned faith or religion. EVOLUTION IS A MYTH BASED ON REASON.

BerkeleyBW wrote:”In the larger public policy arena, we should end immigration of Muslims, who have nothing in common with our values and often want to murder us just for being devoted to free speech, individual liberty and gender equality.”Indeed this should happen. In 2010 and Indeed, Islam is opposed to Free Speech (First Amendment) as Arslan Iftikhar (civil rights lawyer) defines it in his column. (I am not opposed to Mr. Iftikhar’s viewes.) Reverend Franklin Graham, from his perspective, is totally right when he stated that Muslims cannot practice “true Islam” in USA. The First Amendment needs to be tossed out, existing US Constitution needs to be revised top down, to accomodate Islam and Islamic principles. This would make Muslims practice their religion in USA more freely and with closer parallel as to how it is practiced in Pakistan for example. Prophet Muhammad maybe one of the world’s law givers like Moses, but I do not see his laws (Shariah) being adopted or forming any basis for US legal system.However being a capitalist country, the danger that USA faces is that many business leaders would oppose such a ethnic/religion specific immigration ban (as BerkeleyBW states) simply because they would fear that Muslim countries would stop doing business, and also use terrorism against their overseas business operations. Thus, I am betting that any such measure would fail.

@ SPIDERMEAN2lol

you wont stop blasphemy and We (Muslims) should not allow this which hurts the feelings of other person/nations.Since you are a freedom speech boaster, I would like you to make fun of holocaust in you upcoming article. Also I would like face book users to celebrate a holocaust day. Lets have freedom of speech!!!

Why? Why bother to have a day that’s going to bother people? It’s pretty silly. I’m all for freedom of speech, but I’m not going to back controversy. It’s just plain dumb.Now, how would all of you feel if we had “draw the Pope as a pedophile” day?

I’d like to see more analysis of what Mohammad would do when his so-called followers murder and bomb in the name of his religion. So many main stream Muslims are quick to decry the casualties of war (blaming the soldiers who are trying to rein in terrorists), but very silent about the degradation of women swathed head to toe (why aren’t men supposed to be ‘modest’ – the purported reason for such coverings, or threatening cartoonists who call attention to so much hypocrisy ( of all religions and ideas).

TO ALL “MODERATE” MUSLIMS:BE TRUE TO YOUR RELIGION AND STOP TRYING TO COMPROMISE WITH THE WEST.THE HOLY KORAN CH.9 VERSE 5: “SO WHEN THE SACRED MONTHS HAVE PASSED AWAY, THEN KILL THE IDOLATERS WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM, AND TAKE THEM CAPTIVES AND BESIEGE THEM AND LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM IN EVERY AMBUSH.” FORTUNATELY, THE HISTORY AND THE CURRENT BEHAVIOR OF MOST TRUE MUSLIMS ESPECIALLY IN PAKISTAN IS CONSISTENT WITH THE KORAN. THE VIOLENCE IS NOT NEW AND IS NOT ACCIDENTAL. IT IS AT THE CORE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL RELIGION. GOD IS GREAT.BIN LADEN, LASHKAR-E-TAIBA, TALIBAN, PAKISTANI ISI ARE TRUE TO THESE BELIEFS.THE KORAN SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. THAT IS WHY TRUE MUSLIMS FOLLOW THE KORAN AND KILL NONBELIEVERS. A LOT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS LOOK QUITE PEACEFUL WHILE THEY KILL. FOR EXAMPLE, THE MUMBAI TERRORISTS OR DANIEL PEARL’S BEHEADER, ETC… LOOK QUITE CALM. THIS IS ALL THAT IS MEANT BY “RELIGION OF PEACE.”

He is dead and gone. He would o nothing. The end.

20yrskinfan:

The cartoonists all over the world should draw Muhammad marrying a 6 year old and then “consumating” the marriage when she is 9. I’m so sick and tired of this backwards, violent, ignorant religion being waved in my face. I get it. Your god is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you will kill anyone who says otherwise. But don’t think we will let you bully us into treating your prophet as if he actually had a direct line to “god” because none of us really dig the fact that he said you should kill all infidels and have sex with children. I really don’t think any moral or just god would have approved of that kind of behavior. Or, it just proves that there is no god, at least not the one made up by a little tribe in the middle of a desert 2,000 years ago.

Thank you for a wonderful parable and explanation, Mr. Iftikhar. It is always amazing that the same anonymous readers who scream and yell, demanding a “moderate” Muslim to comment on (“disavow” is the usual term) issues like the depiction of the Prophet, suddenly turn into great scholars of Islam and Sahari’a, and admonish ordinary everyday Muslims for not being rabid and crazy enough.Shame on the likes of “Yeal9” and “DebChatterjee” and “Karsanghasi” for being the intolerant bigots they are, and for expecting all Muslims to conform to their twisted, idiotic, childish view of what a “proper” Muslim is.Some of these people who claim ultimate superiority of their perverted views also claim to be “Christians”. Perhaps some “moderate” Christians could be persuaded to “disavow” their sick, insane rantings?

The problem here is it is not just the cartoons that are inciting terrible violence by the extremists.They tout all kinds of reasons for killing innocent people indiscriminately.They don’t use the ” ubutu ” example at all.It is usually the “ubomb “.

I would love to see a Southpark episode were the people are protesting the showing of pictures of Muhammad by holding up crossed out pictures of Muhammand and chanting something like “No pictures of Muhammand!” Hurray free speech!

Dear… Lets put this issue in a different perspective, After 9/11 when world came to practically encounter clash of civilizations there were many problems,,,muslims cannot be eliminated, they cant be asked to change their belief or convert,,they are in growing numbes, religion is also spreading much faster than any other,,some even predicted that soon many European countries may have more muslim population than the originals ,,,a term MUSLIM EUROPE was also reffered to occaisionally…now, many people view it as a calculated strategy to make lives difficult for muslims in west…how it can be done??,,,ban on veil and burqa in Europe is a glaring example…cartoon controversy in Europe is again another one,,..it is indirectly aimed to force muslims to react violently ,,,this may trigger a situation thereby bringing tougher lifestyle on them in western countries so people may be discouraged to immigrate or may with a view to reduce or maintan muslim population..

yasseryousufiAnd by the way what is all this about pure animals that can be eaten and impure ones that have to be avoided. Didn’t your perfect dog (sorry my dyslexia is getting better of me today) know how to create only pure animals. Or was SHE not so perfect that some of the creations turned out to be not so pure so cannot be eaten. In that case we should entertain the possibility that all the muslims may be the ones who are impure and so must be shunned. What do you think of that. Just a little bit of food for thought. Let me know.

More than 30 years ago, a famous author named V.S. Naipaul toured “converted” Muslim lands of Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia…His views of Islam should serve as a jolt to rest of humanity. He calls it a worse imperial force than Westerners. Islam calls for wiping out any native populations and cultures wherever it goes/invades.Posted by: rajeetishi -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=No kidding. To whom is this not obvious?.

@Yasseryousufi:Those comments show that in Islam non-muslims are filthy, and unclean. Even your Allah calls them filthy. Is that hatred for the non-muslims?

@Yasseryousufi:I showed you that there is no respect for the non-muslims in Islam. I am not a hindu, but that matters little to you. You are a pakistani muslim and you will curse the hindus. If you were an iranian you would have cursed the bahais or the majoosis, and as an arab you would have cursed the jews. But then that is Islam for you.

There are THREE valid reasons why evolution is false. I hope all evolutionists read this so I don’t keep on repeating myself.Reason no. 1 — it is impossible that a single-celled bacteria can become or transform into a two-celled bacteria or into a multiple-celled organism. There is no available science to explain such a fairy tale. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 2 – soil and water existed before any living thing existed. It is impossible that those brainless substances (soil and water) can form by themselves a very complex matter called plants and animals. There is no available science to explain that such a transformation is possible. This is the myth of evolution.Reason no. 3 — Science is the study of nature. Engineering is part of that kind of science. Engineers took many years to extract energy from sunlight and even at this moment they are still scratching their heads how plant leaves has been doing it for eons already. The level of intelligence nature demonstrates is just beyond human intelligence. The only probable explanation is the existence of a Supremely Intelligent Creator. With these THREE valid reasons, I don’t think I mentioned faith or religion. EVOLUTION IS A MYTH BASED ON REASON.*****On another topic, of course there are false religions. Jesus Christ who is God himself was crucified by worshippers of false religion. Gravity has only one constant, all other numbers are wrong. The same can be said of religion. One religion is true and the rest are false.

Obviously, yasseryousufi also needs some help in conquering his Islamic brainwashing and we again offer the free Five Step Program for “Deflawing” Islam:Using “The 77 Branches of Islamic faith”, a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point: In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true “faith” (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings.” i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs. “1. Belief in Allah”aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc.” should be added to your cleansing neurons.”2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence.”Evolution and the Big Bang or the “Gib Gnab” (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the “akas” for Allah should be included if you continue to be a “creationist”.”3. To believe in the existence of angels.”A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No angelic thingies ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and “tinker bells”. Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented.Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.Prophecies are also invalidated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.”5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone.”Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a “pretty wingy thingy”. Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed’s “fast, hunger-driven” hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers. Accept these five “cleansers” and we guarantee a complete recovery from your Islamic ways!!!!

Yeal,When would you become wise? You’re old and yet you’re still an idiot. John himself wrote that liars go to hell. So what does he get for lying? You’re a crazy man.

To ankhorite,Dear friend, their are two different There was a time when it was really impossible to make people believe that earth is round. Though it was, so why it was hard to believe, because it wasn’t part of human discovery. Let me tell you the story that what happens when we amend or hide the reality just because it doesn’t comply with the human discovery, or not capable to a medicare mindset.Some priests belong to a (don’t wanna hurt the followers of that religion) religion amended some versus from their holly book which interprets that the earth is round because they were afraid of it’s acceptability by people. Later on what happened a scientist discovered and claimed that the earth is round, this situation was really terrible for the priest, which knew it in the first place but amended the reality following the human discovery, but since the human discovery is subject to evolve, they were in a big trouble so instead of making another amendment in their book they start threatening the discoverer that he has lack of faith, so either he should accept the their prophecy (earth is flat) or he would fall because of the roundness of the earth (a warning of death sentence).SO the conclusion is human discovery of possibility is subject to evolve. Discovery can seek it’s way with the help of reality, reality shouldn’t be limited in the boundary of human discovery.

PART IIYou eat whatever you like……none of my business. You don’t come across as an educated person judging by the contents of your posts. Cursing God makes you feel big ‘eh?What’s the confusion about Holy places?? Why can’t we dedicate some places for the worship of God? If you’ve read history, all the prophets of Abrahamic religions are infact from the tribe of Abraham. They were all born in and around Middle-East. It seems like a strategic place that’s why it was chosen I believe. From here Christianity more or less spread towards west and Islam towards east. Yathrib wasn’t just a Jewish settlement. There were people already living there before the Jews came who were locked in an eternal battle with the Jews. The Mosque in Makkah was built by Abraham himself along with his Ishmael. No doubt these three Abrahamic religions have many things in common because they came from the same source. In the early part of Islam Muslims used to face Jerusalem while praying as it had what was described in the Holy Quran as ‘the furthest mosque’. There are many reasons for the change of Qibla, one of them being that the Jews of Medina started making fun of muslims. It is also said to be a test of firmness of belief of the very small number of followers of Prophet Muhammad. Back then Islam comprised of no more than a few hundred people. The fact that Angel Gabriel turned Prophet Muhammad towards Makkah in the middle of the prayer solidifies this theory.Your knowledge of Quran is pretty poor. The Quran is a compilation of revelations Prophet Muhammad received over the course of his life. Not a single dot has been abrogated. Nothing has been added or deleted. God himself took the responsibility to save the Quran from being adulterated like Torah and Injeel.I am no wiseman or anything of that sort. I am just here to educate the ignoramuses and haters of Islam.

yeal,You and crosan should walk on water first

yasseryousufi:Now coming to the knowledge of Koran is totally superfluous, just a knowledge Torah, OT, NT, any other scripture you name. They are as useful as the tomes on Al-chemistry. They are all should be dispatched to the dust heap of history, just like the Al-chemistry books. The only purpose it serves is to refute folks like, other than that there is nothing to discern from them. Speaking of which can you wiggle out of this. “In Surah 2, Al Baqarah, verse 106 the principle of abrogation is explained: For every revelation that is abrogated something better or similar is substituted.”With regards to your claim about that good for nothing cowardly-cheating-pimping-his-own-wife-twice-abandons-his first-born character Avram, building Mecca with his abandoned first-born? Did you know first of that Avram is fiction? Second there was no mecca at the supposed time of Avram existence. Go see in the ancient records and literature when Mecca gets the first mention. Don’t ask me to buy into illiterate bedouin’s epileptic ramblings.

First off it says that those people among the jews who transgressed were turned into “monkeys”. A punishment for transgressing. These people were violating the Sabbath and thus breaking the laws laid down by God thru Moses. The jews that observed the Sabbath even raised a wall between themselves and those violators so that they would be spared the wrath of God. God to whom belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth and everything between them can do anything if he so chooses. If AIDS is spreading in these times in different continents the stigma is on people who are breaking Divine Laws by being promiscuous or injecting poisons into their bodies not on, say, the whole population of Africa where it is spreading at an alarming rate. This is my last post here and I request all Muslims to do the same because we are ordered to step away from any gathering where God, our Prophet and Islam is being insulted and ridiculed until they move to another subject. Therefore, I say to all seek the truth and save yourselves and stop being insolent and arrogant. You have until the last breath you take and no one knows when that moment comes.

“Allah has mentioned in three places stories of people who were turned into apes and pigs. Almighty Allah says: [And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated!)] (Al-Baqarah 2:65). He also says: [Shall I tell thee of a worse (case) than theirs for retribution with Allah? Worse (is the case of him) whom Allah hath cursed, him on whom His wrath hath fallen! Worse is he of whose sort Allah hath turned some to apes and swine, and who serveth idols. Such are in worse plight and further astray from the plain road] (Al-Ma’idah 5:60). In another chapter, He says: [So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed!] (Al-A`raf 7:166). In these verses, you will see that that a group of people refused to follow Allah’s commands that were given to Moses. They had turned against Allah’s laws and were punished by being turned into apes and pigs.”Read more: And again from http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/754.htm“Depicting Jews – and sometimes also Zionists – as “the descendants of apes and pigs” is extremely widespread today in public discourse in the Arab and Islamic worlds. For example, in a weekly sermon in April 2002, Al-Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, the highest-ranking cleric in the Sunni Muslim world, called the Jews “the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.”[1]

IAMWEAVER,That freedom of speech argument of yours is a load of bollocks. Let me see if these same crusaders of free speech at facebook would allow a “Draw Holoaust Denial Day” or “Black People are Monkey day”. You can bet your bottom dollar facebook would cease to exist, the very next day it announces these competitions. So…… contratry to your beliefs, there ARE limits to free speech!I’ll stand by what I said. Its open season for the rabid muslims bashing in US. Just listen to the kind of hate speech radio talk show hosts and Fox news gets away with. Not to forget the odious campaign to brand Obama as a muslim by the republicans and their supporters as if its the worst crime in the world. No other group of people in US is subjected to as much hatefilled attacks as the muslims are. Thats is a fact no one can deny~!

That freedom of speech argument of yours is a load of bollocks. Let me see if these same crusaders of free speech at facebook would allow a “Draw Holoaust Denial Day” or “Black People are Monkey day”.Try looking for these kinds of hateful things – they are all over the internet – even on Youtube. There is a lot of garbage available out there in cyberspace. That’s an unfortunate side-effect of free speech that can’t be eliminated.On a peripheral note – from what I have read, the prohibition against depicting Mohammed was to prevent idol worship. Do Muslims really believe that “Draw Mohammed” day is going to lead to idolatry? Or is it that many are so fixated on the letter of the law that they deliberately ignore its actual intent, and are using the law as a bludgeon to silence those whose views differ from their own?

Or is it that many are so fixated on the letter of the law that they deliberately ignore its actual intent, and are using the law as a bludgeon to silence those whose views differ from their own?No one is forcing anyone to live in the United States or in Europe. If you want to, then you abide by their customs. It is reasonable to expect some degree of accommodation from enlightened societies. However, when they tell you they are drawing a line, so to speak, they have drawn it.And they are telling you. Best believe it.

“Bottom line. In this country almost everything goes. South Park, for instance, has depicted blacks, Jews, Christianity, Catholics, Hindus, etc., in ways that are cringe-worthy. (It’s what South Park does.) No death threats from the aforementioned groups were forthcoming.”Stop trivializing the issue! No one condemned that South Park cartoon. The shadowy organization that made those threats is made up of former Jews and christians. They are not even allowed to enter most mosques in US. Not a single prominent Muslim in US or outside said a single word against the South Park cartoonists. The protests are against the obscene and insulting images facebook allowed to be posted.

“If we issued death threats, if we threatened, whatever might some day be learned by the Moses idolaters would be lost.”No one is condoning violence of any sort against anyone. Those people who gave death threats spoke for themselves and their tiny fringe organization and not for 1.5 billion muslims. Yet the response was to punish every single muslim by ridiculing their most revered figure. I agree with your post fully. I had no idea anyone would use Daniel Pearl’s image to mock Jewish people. If anyone did this, its shameful. But I would also say that the response of Pakistani Government is perfectly understandable considering the provocation~!

“It’s also odd, sometimes, who gets offended by what.”I remember last year when Chelsea lost Barcelona in Champions League their fans issued death threats to the Norwegian refree because of some of his decisions (wrongly) percieved to have favored the other side. He had to go into hiding after the match. There have been many deaths due to football related hooliganism and violence all over Europe and South America. For people here its hard to understand how can anyone issue death threats of even kill someone for a game of sports! So yea…….its hard to understand the stupidity of human emotions sometimes.Daniel Pearl was indeed a sad case. He was an innocent man. But he made a mighty judgement of error, trying to find Al-Qaida leaders in the blind alleys of Karachi during the height of 2 american wars in muslim countries. He misled the security people here regarding the purpose of his visit and caused a great deal of embarrasment for Pakistan. It was like me going into slums of Miami to look out for cocaine dealers. They’ll make mince meat out of me.

For people here its hard to understand how can anyone issue death threats of even kill someone for a game of sports! So yea…….its hard to understand the stupidity of human emotions sometimes.Help.