What did Muhammad look like, anyway?

[Fritzo]

 

[destrekor]

If extremists were not murdering people over this, would folks still create offensive and/or crude images of Mohammed?

Nope. The violence in response to the depictions of Muhammad is why it is drawn continually.

Well actually, I suspect the depictions would just turn to humor instead of crude and offensive. I mean, look at all the comical drawings of Jesus. The freedom of press and speech is important, and a decent human will acknowledge that things people say, write, or draw will be offensive, but shouldn't set them off in a rage. If they rage, it should be in a calculated and well-mannered response.

 

[Rakehellion]

he looked like Jesus

all the religions talk about the same dude, they just have different stories and names for him

No one really knows what he looked like either.

 

[TridenT]

No idea but if the internet tells me anything, it is that he always was sucking a dick.

 

[Sonikku]

You're welcome.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Yeah, but Jesus had a habit of resurrecting himself and popping up in different places. The Christians thought that he did it once, and the Mormons think that he showed up twice.

It's an amusing thought... maybe all of these religions sprang up around this time because Jesus was busy doing a world tour

You have it backwards. Jesus sprang up because the myths were doing a world tour. The story of a sun god, or a son of god, who was born of a virgin, died and resurrected to save his followers had literally been doing a world tour for thousands upon thusands of years. That story had been passed around the area of the eastern end of the Mediterranean in a giant centuries long game of telephone and had been attributed to at least a dozen different gods before the Christians stole it for Jesus.

Mohammed probably looked like a fat, pimply-faced high school band geek. That's why nobody talked to him and why he was so enamored with the idea of virgins in the afterlife. No girls even noticed him when he was alive, so his little Walter Mitty fantasies had them lining up to service him for all eternity.

 

[moonbogg]

Y'all gonna get MURDERED. Someone gonna make infidel soup out of your blaspheming asses.

 

[SKORPI0]

It's Muhammad, not Mohammed. :hmm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

Muḥammad (Arabic: محمد‎; c. 570 – 8 June 632[1]), full name Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاش&#1605, from Mecca, unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. Believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God, Muhammad is almost universally[n 1] considered by Muslims as the last prophet sent by God to mankind

Unlike Jesus, he actually existed. ^_^

 

[TwiceOver]

 

[dainthomas]

Just a normal guy. It's just some weird rule but at least it's not as weird as a lot of those christian rules.

I'm pretty sure if you eat meat on Friday during Lent, a bunch of priests don't show up at your work and blow you away.

 

[ultimatebob]

It's Muhammad, not Mohammed. :hmm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

Unlike Jesus, he actually existed. ^_^

I've seen it spelled both ways, but it looks like you're right. I'll change it.

 

[John Connor]

I'm pretty sure if you eat meat on Friday during Lent, a bunch of priests don't show up at your work and blow you away.

Fuck! Did you see the Quaker cell with butter churns take hostages on an airplane the other day?

Right now there is a picture of Jesus in a NY museum socked in piss! Where's the Christan murderers?

 

[BoomerD]

 

[blankslate]

 

[zerocool84]

I'm pretty sure if you eat meat on Friday during Lent, a bunch of priests don't show up at your work and blow you away.

Christians are not free from blood on their hands.

 

[Exophase]

The story of a sun god, or a son of god, who was born of a virgin, died and resurrected to save his followers had literally been doing a world tour for thousands upon thusands of years.

Not arguing against the rest of your post, but I never understood why some people see a connection between the "sun god" and "son of god" concepts. At least outside of son and sun being homophones in English (but not in any relevant ancient languages that I'm aware of)

 

[disappoint]

I'm pretty sure if you eat meat on Friday during Lent, a bunch of priests don't show up at your work and blow you away.

Fuck! Did you see the Quaker cell with butter churns take hostages on an airplane the other day?

Right now there is a picture of Jesus in a NY museum socked in piss! Where's the Christan murderers?

He didn't mean it like that. He meant "blow you" and got carried away.

 

[disappoint]

Christians are not free from blood on their hands.

Nor the genitals of altar boys.

 

[disappoint]

:thumbsup:

 

[Braznor]

Islam prohibits the pictorial representation of any living being. This dictum is based upon the opposition against man representing himself as the true creator of life or imitating himself as so in any form. This is the reason why many orthodox Muslim homes will have calligraphic art rather than scenic pictures or paintings. Another basis of opposition comes from the basis that the true God aka Allah is formless, so any form representing a living being or divine is akin to idolatry.

The clerics of Saudi Arabia even had the ancient home of Muhammad demolished. Unlike Jesus in Christianity, Muhammad in Islam is the last prophet, but still human and not worthy of any worship in any form.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably something like this:

Though, I guess that might be more what would happen if you cross a Jehovah Witness with a Muslim. Freaking thing knocks at your door, you answer, then it blows up in your face.

 

[marvdmartian]

He looks like this, which explains why they don't want him pictured. Then all the nerds would flock to their cult, and no one cool would want to be in it! :whiste:

 

[JulesMaximus]

 

[JulesMaximus]

 

[brianmanahan]

full name Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad

lol, his name was abu - like the monkey in aladdin?