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Mohammed Image Archive
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This page features a selection of responses emailed by visitors to the Mohammed
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Subject: A suggestion
Hi,
I am extrememly disappointed and displeased after visiting your website.
What you people are up to. It is offensive and disrespectful and even
unbearable.
You have no idea how deeply we muslim love our Holy Prophet Muahammad (PBUH).
No muslim can ever permit this act.
May he/she be non practicing or remotely religious - it is unacceptable for one,
leaving aside a small percentage of hypocrates.
I demand that all this stuff depicting Holy Prophet Muahammad (PBUH) be
removed from this web site and as well from all mirror sites.
I hope you will understand and you will save yourself from the deepest place
in hell.
From, Khalid M., Pakistan
From: m. a. kariim
Subject: Fuckers ..and stupids
First, you are fuckers , idiots and pigs ......
......wa ba3da daalika la3ana allaah 3aleeykum ......
.... and i hope from allah to enter you into the hell .........
Stupids.....
From: hashim a.
You are cowerd and silly and ugly. How did you do all that. it is supposed to be
very noble. but know .you have to wait for the punishment from God ( Allah The
All Mighty ) God willing)you will be the losers in all cases.
It is something silly to do those drowings and a like. The prophet Mohammed -
peace be upon him - the master of all human biengs was and still the leader of
all prophets and mankined and he is the leader of peace .We believe in him as a
massenger of Allah. Came to lead people to pradise by believing in Allah.
I have nothing to say ,but you will be the losers and Allah will protect his
massenger even he is dead .
You must wait for a curse and the punishment
From: ...@emirates.net.ae
Subject: dirty
ON the name of G0D ALMIGHTY,
I just would like to say that u r dirty and ugly u are just trying to heart us
specially u know how much we love our beloved prophet
let me confirm to all of u that u ll be in hell INCHALLAH, and in the judgement
day u ll reconise how is MOHAMMED pbuh.
One more time and all the time u r dirty and ugly and u ll never be forniven
from GOD ALMIGHTY Inchallah and what can I say he dirty can just think like a
dog but I do respect the dogs but not u because the dogs hey pray to GOD ALMIGHY.
From: ...@yahoo.fr
Subject: important
That God take you and curse you.
you are only salesmen of the cows.
you are only cows and dogs.
subject: YOU ALL IS MOTHER FUCKER IN THE WORLD,
I PRAY YOU ALL DEAD BY SUCK YOUR BALL,,, FUCK YOU...!!!!!!
From: ehsan e.
Hey who the fucking bitch do u think you are?
what do you know about mohammad?
what do you know about islam?
what do u know about mus
you are just some fucking assholes.
sooner or later u will face more more difficulties.
then let us enjoy it.
My congratulations for this site. It is education the world needs. With this
Muslims and non Muslims can learn.
Kind regards: L.A. ( Portugal)
From: P. Wang
Subject: Thank you so much
Dear sir,
Thank you for the Mohammed archive. I am truly informed after visiting your
site.
I truly hope the free press of Europe will not be afraid of the reaction of the
Muslims. The Muslims have said and written more vile things about the Christian
faith and Jews than we can ever draw. I live in a Muslim majority country and
they can say anything under the sky about the Christians but we cannot utter
anything negative about their 'Holy' prophet who married an underage girl.
I think you have to let the people of Europe stand up in unity and if it is
necessary send those muslim in Europe back to their homeland if they cannot
understand the freedom you have.
Thank you.
God bless.
An oppressed Christian
From: mameed a.
I will not say hello to stupid people like you
You know that the Prophet Mohammad is the Prophet of all people..
shame you shame you all christians with your God who can have sex with Marry to
get Jesus
do you think that is true
or are you communists so nature made us and we dont
have to do anything but making guns to kill capitalism.
or you are Jews and you think Ezar is the son of Allah
and you killers are the best people Allah created.
You are shamed with this and you can judge me not for this
Shame on you and on your gods
From: ayman ...@mail.sy
fuck you
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Subject: I would like to tell you our side of the story...
I am a Muslim, and I saw your website, and I would like to point out something.
First of all, what us Muslims are mainly upset about; is NOT that they drew the
Prophet Peace Be Upon Him, but that they protrayed him as a terrorist,which is a
TOTAL LIE! If you read the biography of the Prophet Peace Be Upon Him, you might
better understand that those comic strips were Extremely Offensive. You say that
there are other pictures of the Prophet, and I am sure that the Muslims of that
age showed their anger about the offensive ones especially.Not all of the
pictures you have in your archive are offensive to the Prophet,though. So I am
writing to you just to clear this up.
I am sending you some information about the prophet,so you will have a better
idea of who he was, what kind of man he was, his morals and character. At the
bottom are also some names of some biographies. If you want, I can find some
titles of biographies in English, just let me know.Thank you for reading what I
have to say, and I hope you at least put our point of view in your site.
Nada A.
From: m. yousaf
you are one the most fucking country of the world and u will never be succeed in
your life
you are prisedent and his wife is also fucking with each other and i also fuck
every denmark citizines with you
From: NoorH01@... .com
Subject: danish dikheads
I think ur site is full of shit and the danish dikheads who drew the picture
should try drawing themselves but the only problem is after the finish drawing
the picture they might get 2 upset because there will only be a pill fuck on
page.
From: Thomas H.
Hello from Paris !
I just wanted to tell you that your compilation of these images is fascinating
and I applaud you on a job really well done.
PS - Please be careful that you don't somehow have problems with the fanatics
related to the creation of this web site.
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From: S. Prakash
Respected Sir,
Please publish this message so that the world can analyse the problem haunting
Islam.
The reaction of the muslim community to the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad clearly
shows their gross intolerance to criticism and the freedom of the press. It is
needless to say that this is the reason for many muslim dominated nations to be
under military rule (dictatorship). Even though Islam doesn't preach violence or
terrorism when the freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom to women is
curbed all minute crimes in the society grows and grows until it explodes like a
volcano creating widespread violence within the muslim community and also with
the other religious groups. It's basically the inability to accept criticism in
the pretext of it as unislamic is the cause for terrorism and violence
eventhough islam may not preach it.
The muslims has to accept criticism for their own good and only then can other
religious groups respect Islam or else it will be perceived as a dictatorship
religion with the muslims being slaves to their religion. There has to be
freedom to criticise and scrutinize everything including the government and the
religion and not just accepting it blindly or rather accepting by fear of
hardcore muslim fundamentalists. For those who doesn't beleive that many muslims
follow Islam because of fear there are many instances to cite as examples of
these including the threatening of the muslim women in hardcore Islamic
countries (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) to wear 'purdah' (the black cloth
covering head to toe), warning against Sania Mirza in India, threatening to
Pakistani actress Mira, threats to many authors in Pakistan who expose the
reality, in India a kerala muslim girl warned because she was learning
Bharatanatyam (a form of dance linked to Hinduism), the practise of honour
killing in Pakistan's country side (husband killing his wife if she were to get
attracted to other men), etc. The above said instances were the one that I can
recollect at this moment but there are innumerable such instances. Once the
freedom is given to the muslims from the clutches of Islamic laws only then the
muslims can really understand what Islam is and they will respect and love their
religion and not accept it by fear.
Even though the cartooning of Prophet Mohammad can be regarded as blasphemous
those who knows Islam and respects it will not just consider the cartooning of
Prophet Mohammad and will neglect it. Violent agitation will generate still more
criticism against the Islam and it's followers. There has been instances of
insult and blasphemous act to other religion also like reciting Bhagvad Gita
(the most sacred scripture in Hinduism) in the Hollywood movie 'Eyes Wide Shut'
during a group sex scene and the destruction of Lord Buddha statue in
Afghanistan which was a world heritage site. What else can be more blasphemous
than reciting the holy Bhagvad Gita during a group sex act and the destruction
of the Lord Budda's Statue and yet the protests were insignificant. In
Christianity, everybody has the right to question and criticise anybody and
anything including the Bible.
The time is not far away when muslim community starts recognising all other
religion and it's people as unislamic and starts a jihad. This fact is not an
exaggeration when people can realise for themself that many muslim dominated
countries identifies itself as an islamic country rather than a secular one. The
nonmuslim world has been very tolerant to their muslim citizens while nonmuslims
in muslim dominated nations are neglected and they don't have the right even to
practise or profess their religion in public. In India, muslims have their own
islamic courts which gives judgement to not only cases relating to islam but all
cases and in general gives judgement according to Quran and the laws enforced by
many of the muslim board. I was surprised to know that many muslims in India
don't sing or honour the National Song because it is related to Hinduism and so
is unislamic. They neither honour the Supreme Court nor the Constitution of
India or it's National Song. The time is not far away when the Muslim citizens
of America or the Europe disrespect their country's law and it's Flag or the
Anthem saying it as unislamic.
I am writing this so that everybody understands the problem (both muslims and
nonmuslims). Muslims who reads this has to, if not accept my criticism, at least
consider the criticism or try to analyse the problem and not to get violent or
get raged and protest. It is for the betterment of Islam and to gain respect for
the religion that I think does deserve but not it's people who applies Quran in
such a way and to create such islamic laws that it becomes incompatible with
other religion.
From: Ali Abu O.
I will not say dear something !!
because you dont deserve this word, any way in our relegion we respect all the
prophets and this is essential and I cant say a word on jesus because we beleive
him as we beleive in our prophet mohammed and any one who dont beleive in all
prophets , he is considered as being out of islam.
I say this because we have the ethics that prevent us from say a shit like you
have in this poor web site, our relegion is great and whatever you saw it here
or there (11th of september or boombing here or there ) is just a react of what
you do against us.
you kill us in palestine and in Iraq in lebanon, afganistan . you fight moslems
in all over the world!! and imagine you dont want us to defend our self's .
Last word: after I saw this web site I think that you deserve more than bin
laden.
See the cartoons here, so you know how we are think about how dirty you are.
[12 anti-Semitic cartoons pasted into email.]
Dear Webmaster,
The depiciton of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is hurtful to me. Please remove these
images.
It may be intereseting for you but it was very painful for me to go through
these images.
Carissa
From: ibrahim o.
why dont you put you mothers naked pictures with ,,,and print them all around
the world, and if your mother complaint to you just tell her this is free
speches and free jurnalism.
I just wanted to say thank you to you and google for making it so easy to find
the "offending" images and educating me about the extra three. No wonder they
were so upset, but that's how knee-jerk reactionaries usually are.
Michelle
I dont know were you come from, but I can tell you that your page has been all
over danish papers and tv today.
Benjamin
Hello dear writers of the muhammed page.
I'd like to thank you very much for enlightning not only me, but at lot of
people all over the world.
Thank you again for you great work. Danish people have a hard time understanding
the moslem reaction to innocent drawings. I think you contribute to the
discussion in a very positive way. Good luck spreading the message.
Lars J.
I just want to thank you for putting the Mohammed pictures on your website. The
situartion in the middle east is totally overreacted, not only are the
boycotting Danish products, but they've forced Danish and Norwegian volunteer
workers (working for eg red cross) out of their countries, threatning to kill
and destroy everyone and everything Danish. Hopefully some muslims will visit
your website and learn that Mohammed and the islamic culture is not sacred all
over the world, that there are other cultures and you ought to give respect in
order to gain respect. And in Denmark we have the right to experss ourselfs -
that's a part of our culture.
Thank you very much for your surpport and keep up the good work.
Stine, Denmark.
Thanks for the cartoon input. Just wanted to see what the Muslim uproar was all
about.
The Muslim world owes Denmark an apology and the US Newspapers that scream about
"freedom of the press" owe the US Public an apology.
Thank God we have the Internet.
C.G.
From: Steve N.
what an overwhelming amount of images of the Prophet!
awesome site! keep up the great work!
abdu-t. (student from Irbid, Jordan)
You host a very interesting web site, well organized and to the point. I respect
you for doing this and its very helpful in light of the controversy still
brewing over the Danish cartoons.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that a depiction of a long dead prophet
can instill such anger - causing death and destruction in many cities, but I am
also not a religion zealot.
Jim H.
From: K. Nielsen (Denmark)
Thanks a lot for presenting these pictures to the world. A much needed moment of
comic relief in these days of religious lunacy here in Europe.
I don't know who is the most loony, these religious submissives, or the
politically correct ('halal hippies' is a term sometimes used here, it was
coined by a Syrian born Danish MP who himself is a pet hate of the submissive
community here) who cannot bring themselves to utter a negative word about the
oh so 'noble savages'.
From: Luc B.
Hi, I'd like to comment that the mohammed section of the site was pretty
informative and generaly unbiased.
Note that I don't really have anything against Islam itself, but the recent
controversy is good for a laugh, after all those protesters showed how much
integrity they had by lighting a few buildings on fire.
From: Smackhead
why is it I can go to a country like Turkey, full of Muslims and they love the
Brits.
They understand integration, christians and muslims live together amicably, yet
the UK lets in muslims to this country (UK) and they still think the rules of
Aghanistan or other third world countrys apply, my god I am taxed top dollar for
living here and it pees me off.
By the way I have I seen the cartoons and it is not as bad as I have seen on a
Blackpool postcard about an English vicar. Subsequently I have not stormed an
Embassy or burnt a flag.
You are quickly becoming the world's premier citizen journalist! Congratulations
on making a bit of journalistic history the old fashioned way: examining the
facts.
P.
From: Ourenzo
Humor, Sarcastic Tones, Cartoons, Religion, and Races are honored by the right
of opinion and the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.
Others who demonstrate against these certain unalienable human rights and
freedoms with violence and destructive behaviors are:
1. Against God/Allah
2. They showcase their mental illness
3. They abhor human dignity through a public display of their ignorance while
propagating evil in the worst way through the hypocrisy and horrific deeds of
their religious beliefs.
The Muslims depict Roman Catholic, Christ, and Jews as infidel pigs in their own
cartoons, therefore, all other religions have an inherent right to depict Allah
as they see fit!
From: T.
congratulations on this grand and quick historic archive of Mohammed
portraits following the current international incident - and bravo also
for the always elegant and educated comments.
the cartoons are now to be published at least in Germany, Iceland and
France (France Soir) in the name of free expression of speech.
we had to clear out our offices yesterday - we are in the same building
as the Jyllands Posten newspaper who published the drawings.
all the best + thanks for your great contribution to the thing - it's
really cooking here in copenhagen.
From: Zaynab A. (UK)
Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings upon him) is the messenger of God and he
is in Heaven...what you have shown is nonsense and it reflects your jealousy and
hatred towards prophet Mohammed ....
we will always be faithful to our ONE GOD and to his great Prophet peace and
blessings upon him...
and you can't and will not be able to underestimate our religious values....
From: Dylan H.
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From: Narjes F.
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From: r.w.
freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can launch an indirect or in the case of
Danish newspaper direct attack in form of editorial images on some other
religions especially Islam and ruing their fates.....
I being a Muslim condemn it
From: majid a.
down with denmark
-- all of the muslems of world
From: nadal a.
All praise is due to Allah alone. May Allah's peace and blessings be unto His
slave-servant Mohammed and unto all his brethren prophets and messengers of
Allah, and unto all their followers to the Day of Judgment, amen.
Mohammed is the purest of the mankind breed.
Danish people, as well as all other peoples on the face of earth, are reminded
that such ridiculing acts are mere lies and nonsense.
Mohammed is truly the purest of the mankind breed. Any ridiculing acts, no
matter how many in volume and number they are, they would not change this fact
that billions of people believe in. Allah, the Almighty reported this in the
Glorious Quran. The face of Allah's Messenger SAAW represents purity, holiness
and glory. His face is more lit than the full-moon itself. His face beams
generosity, glory, happiness, optimism and attraction to all those who saw him.
Everyone who looked at the face of Mohammed was attracted to his glory, even his
enemies. Symbolically, Mohammed was never reported to be a frowner or with
fierce facial features. He had never beaten a person throughout his honorable
life; a woman, a child a man or else.
It is rather extremely disappointing and depressing for the Danish newspaper
itself and its' editors and editor-in-chief, for the entire Danish government
and every one wants to redicule the prophet peace be upon him, that the only
information they have about Mohammed is the bit they ridiculed him for. Allah,
the Almighty told the truth saying in the Glorious Quran 36:30, 'Woe be to
mankind! Never a messenger was sent to them except they ridiculed him I call
upon these ridiculing people, who ridiculed Allah's Messenger SAAW, and I call
upon the non-Muslims to do-themselves-a-favor, to read the noble biography of
the honorable Prophet and Messenger of Allah, the Almighty. They will be doing
themselves a favor by reading the best biography of a man on-the-face-of-earth
ever. He is the perfect man, the perfect leader, the perfect teacher, the
perfect human being, the perfect father and the perfect all-in-all man.
From: John H.
If Persians, particularly shi'ites, depict muhammad with a face (I have seen
Jesus-like pictures of Muhammad on walls in public throughout Iran), that
doesn't mean such depictions are permitted among Sunnis or generally within
Islam. Your site showing Muslim depictions of Muhammad all hail from Iran and
environs. [Not true. -- ed.] That is not any excuse for intentionally
vile depictions by Europeans of Muhammad for consumption by westerners. Is the
point that Arabs don't riot over Irani pictures of the prophet? Because Iranis
don't generally show Muhammad in a disparaging manner, so that really would not
be a rational comparison. Just what is the point? So Muhammad's been painted
before. Was it done before as a provocative test of Muslim "tolerance" for
western abuses of freedom of the press?
From: oranous
hi im oranous g.
i am painter of Prophet_Mohammad
i saw my painting in your site. if u like i can send my painting for example
zakarya prophet and also ...
good louk and god beles u
bye
From: satri s.
how are you there ? i am a moslem . I love muhammad SAW so much. I consider him
as the best person and a prophet in the world. He is the true messanger in the
world till the judgement day. his behaviour was so well known as the best people
among in his community at the time. he is very trusted by all people ( moslem or
non moslems) even the non-believers in mecca. He loves orphans and the poor very
much. he defences also non-moslems there.
allahumma sholi 'ala muhammad wa ala alii muhammad.
read about his history and be his follower.
Sirs,
I am reading such angry responses to a few cartoon images.
The cartoons I believe can be offensive to some...but to the degree you wish to
riot or harm others? I have seen television programming...state sponsored....in
the mideast, nothing could compare to the way chrisians and jews are depicted!
Where are the slayings and riots?
When a Mosque is bombed...what happens to sacred books and literature
inside?...possibly burned or destroyed.....but no reaction! A phony story of
mishandling the Quran by a gaurd...and screams,riots,death! The murder and
dismemberment of young girls is much more serious, than a questionable
cartoon...Muslims around the world should ask what is more important and
offensive!!
Perplexed
From: Chris B.
Subject: Thanks for informing us.
You know what, this is the first time I have seen all of the 12 now infamous
pictures. Thanks for putting that up, without you and others like you I would
never have even known what the conflict was about. The press used to believe in
freedom of speech, and having all the available information before making
decisions, but they won't give me the information in this case.
Now that I can see how only a few of them are insulting at all, and half of them
are completely benign, it just underscores how important it is to ensure our
freedoms are not compromised.
From: Bob A
Thank you for publishing this archive. This is a valuable public service to the
free world.
A few weeks ago, I tried to google to find the pictures from Denmark that had
been the center of the cartoon row. I was unsuccessful. Then, a friend wrote in
his blog about what is going on, and included a link to your site. Upon arriving
at your site, I was quite pleased to not only find the recent cartoons, but many
examples of depictions of Mohammed from throughout history. As a historian, I
found these to be quite interesting.
I appreciate that you have put all of the various images on display. There is
nothing worse than misinformation to get people riled up. Whether or not Muslims
are happy about your page should be irrelevant to you if you are not a Muslim.
Why should laws from a religion not your own matter to you? I don't go about
trying to force people of other faiths to follow Christian beliefs, and I don't
think that Muslims should try to dictate to non-Muslims how they should behave.
If Muslims are offended by the images you have on display, then they should
avoid looking at them.
It seems to me that the most unfortunate thing about this entire controversy is
that a few fundamentalists are stirring up emotions in the majority of Muslims.
I have a hunch that the vast majority of Muslims, including those involved in
demonstrations are genuinely peace loving folks who have been incited to rioting
and violence by wicked people who are seeking to instigate a clash of
civilizations. I can only pray that cooler heads will prevail, and I think that
being able to look at these images is a step in the right direction.
Eric C.
From: Igi S. (Australia)
Subject: Flawed Logic
Mo's people furore opens my eyes how their logic is
flawed. It maybe comes from the brain-damage they got
from banging their heads to the floor in their daily 5 prayers.
They swear and curse, throwing threats in their e-mail
responses to this site. They state that depicting
their holy prophet is prohibited and doing so is an
unforgivable sin. Following the logic, they should
know it very well that they are not supposed to visit
the site and see the depiction of their holy prophet.
Yet they do visit on their own will. Despite the
warning that easily offended people should stop going
further, they defy the warning and keep going-on only
to get offended and enraged.
From: Glenn B. (UK)
Imagine if someone (maybe in China) had drawn a picture of the Dalai Lama
holding a bomb, and it was published on this site. Can we imagine so many
abusive and threatening emails from Buddhists? Burning embassies? Death threats?
A good Buddhist would express their opinion whilst wishing only love for the
artist and the publishers. If a Buddhist expressed hatred and insults, it would
immediately stand out as deeply unspiritual.
By contrast, it is interesting to see how many posts there are here from people
who call themselves Muslims, but who just express hatred, as opposed to love.
I notice not a single email from a Muslim condemning all this violent, abusive
and threatening language from their fellow Muslims. What does that say to the
readers of these emails?
No cartoon can make me think differently about a world religion. But the
reaction to this episode from thousands of Muslims is self-defeating, and does
little to convince non-Muslims that Islam is widely practiced in a peaceful and
tolerant way, rather than mostly in a dangerous and potentially violent way.
If compassionate and peaceful Muslims wish their religion to be perceived as
such, then I think it would be a good idea for them to loudly condemn those
Muslims who pour out hatred and threats. The compassionate version of Islam
needs to be heard above the roars of hate.
From : Steve
Subject: very good work
I would like to express how great I feel about going through your website. It's
very prudent and correct to show how depictions of this so-called " prophet "
have existed and to our amazement even in muslim culture.
I would also like to express my hatred and contempt for Islam, this religion is
a threat to the world and people need to start realizing it. Muhammad was a
coward, an epileptic, a murderer, a thief and an ignorant. I'm very glad we are
upsetting these beasts.
From: musicfreak
id just like to say, i find the responses to this website hipocritical and
sad...to think that practitioners of a religion such as islam would be so
unintelligent and non thinking in there response is enough on its own to
discredit there opinions, but first you must look at there own
misunderstandings...
islam, in itself, believes that God is ultimately forgiving, and that the depths
of hell are reserved only for the most evil of evil men and women to walk the
earth. even so, it is written that even the most evil soul will eventually pay
his debt owed to god in hell, and finally join god in heaven. there is no way
someone would go to hell for posting a webpage...
From: good man
Subject: Iranians
It's good to have different cartoons from different opinions here.
As an Iranian I'd like to ask you please do not mix the origin of Persia with
Islam (no offence to any body). Iranians where the only nation that didn't start
a war for religion. The first declaration of human right was declared by Cyrus
the great the king of Persia. Iranians build the Suez Canal. Iranians were the
only nation that were under the conquest of Arabs but after 300 hundred years
they restore their language and culture (the same thing for Alexander and
Mongols). For us Alexander, Mongols, and Arabs are the same. Iran was unlucky
that the revolution (1979) happened (although it would have happened because of
the big difference between the poor and rich). Iranians serve the humanity more
than any other nation. Unfortunately these days because of the political
situation there is nobody that supports this great nation. They have been
crushed between the West and Islamic world. But God knows that the reality is
different. Persian girls are the most beautiful women on the earth.
Let's forget about all these things.
There is no reason that people fight each other. With all the resources that we
have on earth any single individual on earth can live happily with no problem.
Let's forget all the hates. Let's get together. Let's be friend. Let's respect
science and engineering. I'm crying now. Why we should fight for bullshit. It's
enough.
God bless all of you
From: Stilgar F.
It is really nice you collected those pictures. It is
not about the insult. It is about the right to insult.
It is about values and our value is the right to
insult. If the muslins don't like it they are free to
leave Denmark (and the rest of the Western world) it
is their right to boycott Danish goods but they can't
take away our right to insult.
To all those muslins who will read the e-mails on the
website and pretend Mohhamed is holly and so on... Why
don't you protest terrorism in his name? Why don't you
demonstrate against September 11th? Isn't killing so
many people more blasphemous than some pictures?
Bye from Bulgaria
I came across your website shortly after all of the uproar started. I want to
thank you for providing a place where I could see exactly what all of the brou-ha-ha
was about.
I also found the pictures of Mohammed which had a historical context
informative. Some of them painted in earlier times had beautiful detail of
architecture and style.
Thank you for providing the information I wanted in order to make my own
determination about the cartoons. I'm a moderator on a board which mainly
focuses on [...]. One of our members is a Muslim in the UAE and in her post
about this topic she made the statement about how Mohammed was not to be
depicted in any manner other than the written word. I was able to use your older
pictures to show her the paintings done in the 1400's.
Sally
Excellent site. It's obvious that the rioters are just using this as an excuse
to spew their vitriol. More, they show that they themselves are guilty of
idolatry, as they would not be reacting in this fashion if they didn't idolize
Mohammed. Reminds me a bit of Christians who spout the 10 commandments before
kneeling in front of a cross with a plaster jesus attached or a statue of the
virgin mary and praying to it....sheer hypocrasy.
Tom
From: Don
While I don't find these cartoons an education in themselves, I do find the
reactions to them very much so. Those who have issue with them don't care to
notice that the cartoons are NOT making fun of, or belittling, Muhammad himself.
They are simply depicting (sometimes exaggerated) the behaviors of those
professing to honor him.
It appears to me, from what I've read in these responses, the majority of those
that claim to honor he and his teachings of love and peace, are so quick to wish
harm and death upon those that truly do want peace and love.
From: L. S.
I'd like to comment on your archive. I think it's quite educational and
informative. I enjoyed seeing the pictures of Mohammed that Muslims like to
think they can prevent the world from seeing.
My beef with these cartoons is this: it is a cartoon. That's it. Where was the
outrage of Muslims on 9/11 or the attacks in London? Where was the outrage of
Muslims when Christian schoolgirls are murdered on their way to school? Where is
the outrage with so many terrible acts done in the name of Islam? I've "advised"
a few Muslims that they get mad when the West presents a stereotype of Islam yet
they do nothing to change that stereotype. There is too much within the religion
of Islam that they need to change and focus on before they worry about a simple
cartoon.
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