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Posted on 02/05/2006 10:09:10 PM PST by naturalman1975
MUSLIMS say they are offended by a cartoon reproduced in Brisbane newspaper The Courier-Mail after it sparked worldwide Islamic outrage when it was published in Denmark.
Any depiction of the prophet Mohammed was blasphemous, said Kuranda Seyit, the director of think tank and advocacy organisation the Forum on Australia's Islamic Relations (FAIR).
On Saturday, the Courier-Mail reprinted one of a series of cartoons run in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
The cartoon showed bombers queuing to get into heaven with the prophet Mohammed standing on a cloud telling them to stop coming because heaven had run out of virgins.
Any depiction of holy people, including Mohammed, was regarded by Muslims as blasphemy, Mr Seyit said.
"It's a double whammy in the sense that it's not just an insult to the religion but it's also a religious offence because it's something that we are not allowed to do," he said.
The cartoon was also inaccurate in that it insinuated Muslims believed the suicide bombers would have virgins waiting for them when they died.
"It's often quoted that the Koran says a martyr, someone who dies in battle, will get 70 virgins as a reward but there's nothing like that," Mr Seyit said.
"That's just a misconception which has propagated over and over again for the last 100 years," he said.
"It's not funny and it's not informative.
"It's just basically an outright offensive cartoon."
The Courier-Mail today followed the depiction with one by an Australian cartoonist showing a turbaned man with rabbit ears in Middle Eastern garb and selling Easter Eggs as he spoke to a figure of Christ on a cross.
On the same page was an article written by Mr Seyit explaining why Muslims were offended by drawings of Mohammed.
The paper appeared to be trying to lampoon other religions, apart from Islam, Mr Seyit said.
Mr Seyit said he would be talking to other Muslim leaders today about the cartoons.
"I will definitely put in a letter of complaint and possibly follow it up with media and possibly a complaint to the Australian Press Council."
The Islamic community would also consider holding rallies and demonstrations, he said.
Courier-Mail editor David Fagan would not comment today.
Bravo to The Courier-Mail
Kudos to them. I only wish some US newspapers were following the lead. I would love to see the Washington Times run one on page one.
To Muslims, but not to anyone else. The rest of us don't give two hoots.
When Babawawa interviewed the would-be suicide bomber, he specifically said he would have gotten 72 virgins if he'd succeeded.
Indeed. I don't give a Shi'ite
I'd print more everyday just see how long they can riot.
...well, I'm going to go burn the Austrailian embassy. Who's with me?
He suggests this after seeing what has happened throughout the World already? Doesn't sound very "FAIR" to me.
Well, if Muslims consider burning an appropriate way to express that they are offended, they should remember that it cuts both ways...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,631357,00.html
It is in the Islamic Traditions that we find the 72 virgins in heaven specified: in a Hadith (Islamic Tradition) collected by Al-Tirmidhi (died 892 CE [common era*]) in the Book of Sunan (volume IV, chapters on The Features of Paradise as described by the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad], chapter 21, About the Smallest Reward for the People of Paradise, (Hadith 2687). The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir (died 1373 CE ) in his Koranic commentary (Tafsir) of Surah Al-Rahman (55), verse 72: "The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]'."
Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash'ari (died 935 CE) have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ), Koranic commentator and polymath. He wrote: "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas."
I like the ending the best!
I love that: The Mooselimbs.... wonder what kind of sit com that would look like!
"The erection is eternal"
Hey,where do I sign up???
As far as those"appetising vaginas",I think I'll reserve comment on THAT one!
HOW DARE anyone MAKE PICTURES of the PROPHET....Wait..Wait....What happened? Damn post #12.
Wow.
So who needs Viagra, when you can just blow yourself up in a Jewish Deli for Allah?
Oy, already!
Exclusive photos of the Mohammed*
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The same religion that banned female bathing in Afghanistan in 1996.
Has anyone seen this Dutch website? Give it a few minutes to open....scroll down for many pictures.
http://retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_0_1_0_C
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