14-01-2015, 05:57 AM
As I now understand it nowhere in the Koran does it proscribe that images of the prophet Mohammed are not allowed. Up through the Middle Ages images of Mohammed were common - then for some Muslims the habit of covering the face was brought in; later, followed by the general feeling that such images were improper [at best], blasphemous and punishable [at the extreme]. It is all interpretation and a more recent one. But perception and prejudice always take place over fact and logic - this is not particular to Muslims. People IMO find in their religious texts what they WANT to find there to justify their actions and beliefs - thought they always insist it is the other way around.
I had not realized until yesterday that two Muslims were killed in the shooting at the CH paper. Also, two there were Jews. In France now, both the Jewish and Muslim communities for different reasons, but over the same incident, are very afraid and upset. Much of the rest of French society is as well - but mostly in less personally direct ways. It is ironic that the ostensible curtailment of freedom of speech and action the attackers symbolized in some part is now being furthered by the increased surveillance and numbers of troops on the streets, etc. If the French Parliament passes new laws further curtailing freedoms [likely] then the question will certainly be who won.
I had not realized until yesterday that two Muslims were killed in the shooting at the CH paper. Also, two there were Jews. In France now, both the Jewish and Muslim communities for different reasons, but over the same incident, are very afraid and upset. Much of the rest of French society is as well - but mostly in less personally direct ways. It is ironic that the ostensible curtailment of freedom of speech and action the attackers symbolized in some part is now being furthered by the increased surveillance and numbers of troops on the streets, etc. If the French Parliament passes new laws further curtailing freedoms [likely] then the question will certainly be who won.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass