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[Euld]

http://diogenesborealis.blogspot.com/2006/08/mohammed-cartoon-that-didnt-result-in.html

I'm kidding, naturally.  A 1994 Far Side comic that featured Mohammed sparked no controversy or calls for Gary Larson's hands to be cut off.  What a different world that was.

[Heron TSG]

Why is it that you're not supposed to draw...

Spoiler: For those of you offended by depictions of mohammed (click to show/hide)

...anyway?

[Leafsnail]

Well, Muslims are told quite specifically not to, and, like with some other religions, a minority of people extend this to "we can't allow anyone else to do it either".

[Heron TSG]

Yes, but why? What part of their religion? Is there any particular reason?

[Max White]

Is stupidity part of their religion, culture or politics? It's hard to tell sometimes...

[Criptfeind]

Is stupidity part of their religion, culture or politics? It's hard to tell sometimes...

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Offence statement is offensive.

[Max White]

It is some what.
I don't hate Muslims. That's a very broad stroke to make. I just rather dislike it when people decide their holy book's rules extend to everybody.

[Criptfeind]

Still, even if it should not effect everyone, avoiding any images of him is easy to do and a free courtesy.

[Aqizzar]

Yes, but why? What part of their religion? Is there any particular reason?

I'm obviously not an authority on this, but in essence, it stems from an old element of Islamic doctrine that considers it disrespectful to make depictions of living beings, Mohammad in particular, under a sort of umbrella interpretation of not making graven idols and images.  Basically, you're not supposed to worship icons, and making a picture of Mohammah is inherently iconography.  This is part of why a lot of early Islamic architecture, the stuff in Spain especially, is liberally covered in geometric designs, and why calligraphy is one of the Islamic world's greatest artforms, because it's decoration that doesn't depict living things.

Obviously it's one of those religious things that ebbs and flows through time and sect; certainly the Ottomans had no problem with commissioning thousands of portraits of themselves.

[Leafsnail]

It is some what.
I don't hate Muslims. That's a very broad stroke to make. I just rather dislike it when people decide their holy book's rules extend to everybody.

It's not like that's a problem unique to Muslims.

[Max White]

No, it isn't.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Still, even if it should not effect everyone, avoiding any images of him is easy to do and a free courtesy.

That doesn't mean people are beholden to do so at all, however. The larger issue is, however, the radical groups who constantly freak out and issue death threats/legal action to anyone in the world breaking this rule (that said Radical groups are demanding to be applied to everyone). That's why events such as Everybody Draw Mohammed Day 2010 & 2011 exist: not to anger Muslims, but to show Radicals that their demands for everyone in the world to be submissive to their rules are not and will never be acceptable.

[mainiac]

Many sects of Christianity have a similar view of depicting Jesus.  The rule is even broader in many sects of Judaism.  Anybody remember that story about a golden calf?

Oh and btw, Christians and Jews have killed people over this rule, although not too recently.

[ThreeToe]

Max White, don't just pop out and say Islam is stupid.  That's not cool.

[rarborman]

All modern religions are stupidly unfocused or focused on irrelivant things like this.

A properly functional religion needs to focus on two simple things, that after death the follower will be happy and with family, and that the deity that created everything in some way or another loves you for you but would rather you be good rather then evil.

Everything else is additional baggage that religion doesnt really need, and just causes problems with disagreements.