Denmark: Newspaper receives threats for publishing Mohammed cartoons
Yesterday, a group of 16 Muslim organizations demanded the paper to apologize for printing the cartoons, reports Aljazeera. The group said, "The newspaper has with its action deliberately stepped on Islam's ethical and moral values with the purpose of contempt and ridiculing Muslims' feelings, their holy sites and their religious symbols". The Islam bans any depiction of the prophet. Jyllands-Posten, which received several threats after publishing the cartoons, said it would not apologize for the cartoons and cited the freedom of speech, writes The Guardian.
Already last week, Imam Raed Hlayhel criticized the publication. He stated, "This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims. Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world. We demand an apology!" Lars Refn, one of the cartoonists, agreed with Hlayhel. As Jyllands-Posten reports, "his cartoon did not feature the prophet Mohammed, but a normal Danish schoolboy Mohammed, who had written a Persian text" saying with Arabic letters "Jyllands-Posten's journalists are a bunch of reactionary provocateurs" on his schoolroom's blackboard.
However, cultural editor Flemming Rose denied that the goal was to provoke Muslim but rather a reaction to artists and writers censuring themselves out of fear of radical Islamists. "Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society. In a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or becoming a laughingstock."
About 150,000 Muslims live in Denmark. They represent 2.8% of the country's population of 5.4 million. With a circulation of 158,000, according to World Press Trends 2005, Jyllands-Posten is Denmark's biggest newspaper.
Sources: Jyllands-Posten, Aljazeera, The Guardian
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It's about time some one exposed this Islamic barbaric cult why has the world allowed a dark age cult to spread FEAR in people how will these brain washed muslims ever live in peace in countries that they think are infidels they killed theo Vangogh for exposing Islamic abuse on women and Miss Ayaan Hirsi Ali hides and is in fear of her own life and she lived the terror of this cult that is being funded by Arab oil and supported by the left political and civil rights groups and worse of all our silence and fear to speak out
“Islam is indeed a religion of love and peace. Islam does not teach people to kill all those who disagree with them simply because they disagree with them. If certain bigoted Muslims did so that is not the fault of Islam. How unjust would it be to say that Christianity is a religion that teaches violence and blood shed by looking at the historical performance of some so-called Christians: After all, Hitler who committed genocide against the Jews, the white supremacists in South America who practiced barbarities against the blacks, the Serbs who committed genocide against the Muslims in Bosnia, those who systematically practiced mass slaughter of Muslims and Jews in Spain, and burned heretics, etc. all claimed to be Christians. What about the Christians still killing each other in Ireland? So why use double standards in judging Islam? Stereotyping is wrong regardless of against whom we use it.
Vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with such violence or bloodshed that may or may not have been committed by those who claim to be Muslims. According to the strict verdict of the Qur’an, taking life of a single human being unjustly is akin to taking the life of all humanity. A good Muslim, therefore, is one who believes in sanctity of all life. The Prophet, peace be upon him, taught us that if a person were to kill even a single little sparrow, it would appear before the Lord of the worlds seeking God’s justice against the person!” (Source: www.islam.ca)
"First of all, it should be clear that Islam maintains the protection of life and does not sanction any violation against it, irrespective of the people’s religion, race, sect, etc.. The Qur’an says about the prohibition of murder, “…Take not life, which Allah hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus does He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” (Al-An`am: 151) “Nor take life, which Allah has made sacred, except for just cause. And if anyone is slain wrongfully, We have given his heir authority (to demand Qisas or to forgive): but let him not exceed bounds in the matter of taking life; for he is helped (by the law)” (Al-Isra’: 33)
According to the Qur’an, killing any person without a just cause is as big a sin as killing the whole humanity and saving the life of one person is as good deed as saving the whole humanity. (See Al-Ma’idah: 32) Muslims do not hate – let alone kill - non-Muslims, be they Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhist or followers of any religion or no religion. Our religion does not allow killing any innocent person regardless of his or her religion. The life of all human beings is sacrosanct according to the teachings of the Qur’an and the guidance of our blessed Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and upon all the Prophets and Messengers of Allah.
When we Muslims state that Islam is a religion of peace, we are not trying to prove something unreasonable or solve a crossword puzzle. Rather, we are just stating a fact backed by clear-cut evidence and unquestionable proofs. Even we don’t need to state this fact, for Islam, in itself, is self-explanatory, in terms of its meaning, its noble teachings and the core of its message conveyed by the Prophets Allah sent to mankind.
With that statement, we don’t intend to sound apologetic, for Islamic concept of peace is very clear. It does not mean weakness, slavishness or surrendering to aggression and injustice. The Islamic concept of peace aims at securing security and harmony for the whole world, without any discrimination as to religion, race or color. Thus, Islam, right from its inception, waged a total war against injustice and oppression. It has made it clear that people should not be deprived of having access to the light of guidance. But throughout its history you can never find any trace of infringing upon people’s right to self expression, even at times that such right was misused. The cogent example to be mentioned here is the way the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, received the two envoys sent by Musailamah Al-Kazzab (the Liar). His fine remarks always ring in mind whenever the issue of diplomatic immunity comes to fore. He, peace and blessings be upon him, told the envoys when they addressed him in a very provocative way: “If not that the envoys should not be killed, I’d have ordered for you to be beheaded”, thus laying down the rule that was later codified as one of the principles of the modern international law.
The point here is, it’s not of the Islamic teachings to kill people just because they happen to be non-Muslims or happen to disagree with Muslims on some points. What attests to this is the fact that the first war in the Islamic history would have never occurred if not that the enemies of Islam could not be satisfied with expelling Muslims from their home (Makkah), rather they planned to carry the aggression to Madinah in order to exterminate Muslims once and for all. So the question that should have been asked is: why do opponents are always on the trail of Muslims?"(source: http://www.islam-online.net)
"The Prophet Muhammad is introduced in the Qur’an in these words:
[And We have not sent you forth but as a mercy to mankind.] (Al-Anbiyaa’: 107)
This shows that his distinctive quality was that he was a blessing incarnate in word and deed.
According to a tradition recorded in the Sahih of Imam Muslim, when the Prophet’s opponents greatly increased their persecution, his Companions asked him to curse them. At this the Prophet replied, “I have not been sent to lay a curse upon men but to be a blessing to them.” His opponents continued to treat him and his Companions unjustly and cruelly, but he always prayed for them.
Once he was so badly stoned by his enemies that the blood began to spurt from all over his body. This happened when he went to Ta’if, where the Hijaz aristocracy used to while away their summer days. When he attempted to call them to Islam, instead of listening to his words of wisdom, they set the street urchins upon him, who kept chasing him till nightfall. Even at that point, when he was utterly exhausted and bleeding from head to foot, all he said was, “O my Lord, guide my people along the true path, as they are ignorant of the truth.”
His heart was filled with intense love for all human kind irrespective of caste, creed, or color. Once he advised his Companions to regard all people as their brothers and sisters. He added, “You are all Adam’s offspring and Adam was born of clay.”
All this tells us what kind of awareness he wanted to bring about in man. His mission was to bring people abreast of the reality that all men and women, although inhabiting different regions of the world, and seemingly different from one another as regards their color, language, dress, culture, etc., were each other’s blood brothers. Hence a proper relationship will be established between all human beings only if they regard one another as sisters and brothers. Only then will proper feelings of love and respect prevail throughout the world.
According to a hadith, the Prophet once said, “A true believer is one with whom others feel secure. One who returns love for hatred.” The Prophet made it clear that one who would only return love for love was on a lower ethical plane. We should never think that we should treat people well only if they treat us well. We should, rather, be accustomed to being good to those who are not good to us and to not wronging those who harm us."(source:http://www.islam-online.net)
Prophet "Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was a matchless leader, a veteran statesman in the full sense of the word, a father to the fatherless, a source of solace to the hopeless, a beaming light to the oppressed, an illumination to those who lost their way inside the dark tunnel of ignorance.
With matchless mercy, he treated his enemies. With astounding justice he instructed his companions (may Allah be pleased with them all) to treat all and sundry with due respect and fairness irrespective of geographical boundaries and religious inclinations. It was the character of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) to meet the persecution and torture of his enemies with pardon and tolerance. He was the most merciful person. Allah called him as “a mercy to the worlds” (Al-Anbiya’: 107). He was merciful to his family, followers, friends, even enemies. He was merciful to young and old, to humans and to animals. Those who persecuted him in Makkah and killed his relatives and his followers, when they were defeated in the battles and brought as captives, were forgiven by him. He did not ever take revenge or retaliated. He was the most forgiving person.
Here, we would like to cite for you the following:
“Bleeding from head to toe, battered and exhausted, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was faced with a choice. Should he or should he not seek to destroy the people who had just humiliated him by having their children chase him out of town while throwing stones at him? And what was his crime? All he wanted to do was to share his message and seek to benefit his people.
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was in At-Ta’if, a lush town of green palm trees, fruit and vegetables, about 50 miles southeast of his arid hometown Makkah. He was hoping that perhaps the people of this town would be receptive to his message, which had been rejected by most of the Makkans for more than a decade.
However, the people of At-Ta’if proved just as cruel and intolerant as his own people. Not only did they scorn his message of Allah's Oneness, but they turned their youth against him as well. In the face of this misery, the Angel Gabriel was sent and presented him with an option: the whole town could be destroyed, by Allah's Will, for their arrogance and hatefulness.
He (peace and blessings be upon him) could have done it. He could have asked that those children who pelted him with stones be finished off along with their intolerant parents, but he didn't!
No, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told the Angel not to destroy the people of At-Ta’if. Instead of cursing the children of this town, he prayed for their salvation. That is just one example of how this man, whom Allah describes as a "mercy to mankind" (Al-Anbiya’:107) dealt with those who opposed him. It is just one of the many examples in the life of a person who faced constant death threats, actual attempts on his life, and abuse and humiliation at the hands of those threatened by his simple yet profound message: there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger. The people of At-Ta’if were not the only ones who tasted this mercy. It was his habit to pray for his enemies all the time. Two of his most bitter enemies, Abu Jahl and `Umar were also the objects of his prayers.
The Prophet made similar supplications for his people on a regular basis: "O Allah! Guide my people, for they know not," he would pray, as he and his followers were beaten, humiliated, scorned and ridiculed.
On another occasion, some Companions came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! The tribe of Daws have committed disbelief and disobeyed (your commands). Supplicate Allah against them!" Contrary to the people’s expectations, the Prophet said: "O Allah! Guide Daws and let them come to us." (Reported by Al-Bukhari).
These are just a few glimpses at how the Prophet dealt with those who opposed him. His opponents were not just people who fought his message on an intellectual level, they were individuals bent on destroying him, his family, his followers and Islam itself.
Contrast this nobility with some ignorant believers today who are found cursing others and praying for the destruction of the world. We do not know the aims of individuals. We do not even know ourselves. So let's keep making Du`a’ that we stay on the right path and that Allah will guide others to it as well."(http://www.islam-online.net)
"First of all, we would like to note that just as a defective eye may deny the sunlight, these feeble minds deny the nobleness of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It is clear that history stands as evidence on the truthfulness, the purity and the lofty morals of Muhammad, who established a nation that enlightened the whole world with light and love."
"In Islam, it is well known that the punishment for the one who insults the Prophet is to be killed because it constitutes an attack against the Seal of the Prophets and the symbol of Monotheism. However, we Muslims are ordered to be forgiving and pardoning. There is a clear indication to this in the Qur'an as Allah Almighty says: (…Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah gives command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.) (Al-Baqarah 2: 109)
Although we categorically deny the perverted behavior of those ill-mannered people who attack the Prophet and insult him, we are ordered to call others to the truth with wisdom and fair exhortation.
Indeed, the enemies of Islam hurl insults and attacks not only on the Prophet but also on their own Prophets and Messengers. For example, the Prophet Moses was insulted in a film directed by one of those avowed enemies, and so was Prophet Jesus (peace and blessings be upon them all)."
It is unethical to illustrate someone for something that they are not, this is nothing but yellow Journalism.
Free press is one that reports facts for what they are, and analysis happenings and phenomena based on solid background information. Jyllands-Posten should’ve done their homework and researched who Profit Mohammed actually was prior to their unethical behaviour, what would be global reactions if they have illustrated the Danish queen –for example- as a homosexual, is doing such considered freedom of expression?
what ever happened to freedom of speech?
yankee doodle
COMMENTS ON CARTOONS ABOUT PROPHET MUHAMMAD ( PBUH )
By Tariq Mustafa, Islamabad, Pakistan. E-mail, mustafatariq@hotmail.com
Recent developments following the publication in the Danish press of pejorative cartoons concerning the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) are moving ominously in the direction of increasing the tensions between the Western and the Muslim worlds. Tempers are rising, collateral damage is increasing and the longer-term effects on both sides will be entirely negative. Our world, which is fast becoming one world, can ill afford this kind of a development. What we need is more discussion and dialogue and certainly cannot afford confrontation, accompanied by death and destruction.
While tempers are rising and the shouting match is getting shrill and ugly, no balanced attention seems to be given to the real issues involved, Viewpoint of the perpetrators is that they must defend freedom of the Press, which they contend to be one of the hallmarks of the western political system. Granted that be so, but isn’t that freedom subject to fairness, good taste and circumscribed by accountability, which is surely an equally cherished value, and that is getting totally ignored in this debate
Let us set aside for a moment that this caricaturing has deeply injured the feelings of a large part of the worlds population, the question that needs to be asked is how close is this caricature to the generally accepted and recognized historical personality of the Prophet Muhammad. To establish this let us not go by the Muslims view of their prophet since that is likely to be a biased one. Let us instead see what, non-Muslim scholars, have to say about the personality and character of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
-William Draper in 'History of Intellectual Development of Europe' says
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race... To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one-third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a Messenger of God.
Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Histoire de la Turque,' Paris, 1854, says
..” Never has a man undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he (Muhammad) had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, in faith and in arms, reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia Khorasan, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and part of Gaul.
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.
Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs... The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"
-Bosworth Smith in Mohammad and Mohammadanism, London, 1874, p.92 states
He was Caesar and Pope in one: but he was Pope without pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue. If ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.
-Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in 'Young India,'1924, said
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.
-Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p.4, stated
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I reread them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher
-Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936, states that
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity."
"I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”
-W. Montgomery Watt in Mohammad at Mecca, Oxford 1953, p52, states
None of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.
-Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978, says
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious level. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence that I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.
All this is from the pen of non-Muslim scholars and thinkers. Need one say any more? Can one say anymore? Should this not be enough to indicate, even to the critics, that this mighty benefactor of humanity does not deserve the comments made about him. It is like spitting on the sun
At the same time I would humbly point out to my Muslim brothers that the reaction shown by the Islamic world is also not worthy of the illustrious Prophet. He could never have approved of the threatening language used in expressing your feelings. The Prophet taught us to speak to others in a good way. He left behind the incomparable example of forgiving even his vilest enemies when he victoriously entered Mecca and by all standards of conduct he could have taken the lives of his enemies who had violated his person and taken the lives of his uncle and close associates in brutal fashion. Although Quran, like the Old Testament allows “eye for an eye” to the aggrieved but it adds that forgiveness is better, as taught also by the honorable Prophet Jesus, and that is the example that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) chose to leave behind for his followers to emulate. Let us be true to the spirit of our revered Prophet and behave in a manner that would win the approval not only of the Prophet but of Almighty God Himself.
To the Danish paper and all those in Europe and elsewhere who tried to show solidarity with their press colleagues, in a mistaken way, one would ask them to review what the above scholars, and many others, have said about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and then honestly ask themselves whether these Cartoons were appropriate and justifiable.
We need not insist on apologies, but surely we have a right, given by your own traditions of a fair press that both sides should get an equal opportunity to present their case in a fair manner and then let the public decide. May we therefore expect that all these papers and especially the Danish paper will publish, without any amendments the views of the non-Muslim scholars given above?
We believe it is time to close and bury this controversy before further damage is done to our fragile civilization. Instead, let us get on with real challenges facing mankind.
Note:-Anyone interested is welcome to publish this article or parts thereof, provided
1. The source is acknowledged and
2. The spirit of the article is maintained and respected
Author, TARIQ MUSTAFA, Islamabad, Pakistan. Email - mustafatariq@hotmail.com
Federal Secretary (Retired), Government of Pakistan. Tel 92-300-8559622
President, National Paralympic Committee and. Vice Pres. Asian Paralympic Committee
i love the Mohhamad of islum
all comments by these blind followers of profit momoo, who invented a cult religion called islam are all 'nonsense". These dark ages illiterate shows how 'illiterate they are?", their self appointed lone profit "is illiterate", cold blooded killer, a horny womanizer and a child molester, rapist, highway robber. WHY IDOLIZING THIS INSANE SUB-HUMAN ?, they MUST BE INSANE ALSO? their "demonic koran" are the words of Momoo(the allah).He "don't even talked to a real God" but to allah himself inside the cave of Mt Hira( the devil's cave) and invented the whole thing and the sub-human those days are so illiterate and so easy to believed.How come this holy shit koran was published? but after momoo was poison, his invented words are nowhere to be found? only after 200 years after it appears when they are trying to copy the Holy bible. Come on mooselims make originals!
fuck you romeo your religion is a piece of shit don't fuking say nothing about our religion or i'll fuckin bomb your ass down coz im a "terrorist" like all u asses say, fuck you and your "nonsense" you're just a fuker who doesn't know what he's talkin about so jus shut the fuck up and get ur facts before you speak you piece of shit, fuckin retard, and its profit muhammad, you mother fuker!