Posted on 05/08/2006 4:25:56 PM PDT by twippo
Recent outbreaks regarding Danish cartoons portraying Muhammad have brought attention to Islamic regulations concerning the pictorial portrayal of prophets. The issue has once again come to the fore in Egypt, but this time concerning the portrayal of a different holy figure—Jesus...
...Abdel Moti Bayumi, an Islamic scholar, echoes these concerns. "Muslims hate seeing Jesus represented in human form and especially if they show him in moments of weakness."
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That would make The Passion of the Christ totally unacceptable?
What's weaker than allowing yourself to be crucified?
LOL!
I would assert that act was the greatest show of strength ever recorded in the history of humanity.
That is interesting. Maybe crucifixion was not as offensive because Muslims believe it never happened. TPOTC ended with a scene of Jesus' nude buttocks. A director would have to have a death wish to give Mohammed the same treatment.
So how long before some Western European nation demands that Christian churches to remove all images of Jesus, because it is an indignity to that Muslim "prophet"? Islam being the greatest, most superior religion in the eyes of extreme leftists (probably because that's the religion most likely to destroy Western civilization), I wouldn't be surprised if they someday ban all non-Muslim religions on the basis that their existence is "offensive" to Muslims and therefore "intolerant" and "non-inclusive) (rather than the old, crude, non-progressive method of simply declaring non-Muslims to be "infidels")
The radical reformation churches removed such images because of their interpretation of the second commandment against making graven images. I believe they were right.
"That would make The Passion of the Christ totally unacceptable? What's weaker than allowing yourself to be crucified?"
Muslims dont understand the real Christ. The Christ Mo-hammed told them about escaped the cross.
Bizarre that they cant see Jesus in a moment of weakness, but they have no complaints when some other Jews get killed by terrorist bombs.
*What a crock. Islamic history is replete with images of Mohammed.
Tough boogers.
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