In the spirit of dialogue and mutual understanding, I put the following thought experiment to the muslim community:
Let us draw a picture of a man, a wise, kind man with love for God in his eyes. Perhaps he has a beard to show his fatherly attributes. If we then draw the word "Mohammed" below the picture, does it then become sacrilegous? Why?
2006-07-06 20:48:50 · 3 answers · asked by Orion D 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is sacrilege for Muslims to depict the prophet. But non muslims are a different story. Till recently Mohammed was depicted several times by westerners, but for some reason the danish cartoon struck a cord. The issue was hyped by religious leaders in the middle east which then got their followers to chime in.
Sadly this is a way for extremeist muslims to gain support from non extremeist muslims.
2006-07-06 20:53:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jon H 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a Muslim, but I can tell you the answer is in the ten commandments:
"you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God".
According to the ten commandments, you cannot worship idols (whether they are statues, paintings or any other forms of art).
Of course, making a painting does not mean that you are going to worship it, but you do have the danger of such a thing happening and people confusing an idol with the real thing.
You need to remember that the ten commandments were given at a time when people were worshiping statues as gods.
2006-07-07 03:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by brand_new_monkey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to be sarcastic, but you ask a GREAT question...carry on.
2006-07-07 03:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by R J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋