A funny Muhammad cartoon

It’s by the cartoonist Zapiro in the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian. And as if proving its point about Muslims’ lack of a sense of humor, the cartoon set off a wave of Muslim protests and death threats, including an unsuccessful legal effort to stop it from being published. Diana West discusses the story here.

The cartoon and the response to it are a perfect illustration of the Muslim problem. In itself the cartoon is harmless and humorous, containing nothing of an insulting or degrading nature. If Muslims regard such a benign cartoon as an occasion for death threats and jihads, then they have proved beyond a doubt that they do not fit in Western society and must leave.

Oh, and by the way, since it is a central Islamic doctrine that Muhammad is not a divine being but a man, why do Muslims insist that he must be treated as though he were a divine being?

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Garrick writes:

You said:

Oh, and by the way, since it is a central Islamic doctrine that Muhammad is not a divine being but a man, why do Muslims insist that he must be treated as though he were a divine being?

This shows how endearingly schizo Islam is. The Koran claims Muhammad is merely the most perfect man who ever existed, but in practice the Muslims treat him as a divine being. The only person who counts in the Koran is Muhammad so it’s inevitable he will be treated as beyond human same as Allah

Steve Burton writes:

That’s the truly weird thing about the cartoon riots and suchlike. In Islamic theory, pictures of the “prophet” are prohibited not because they’re disrespectful, but because they might lead to idolatry—to worship of Mahomet “as though he were a divine being.” So when Muslims freak out about disrespectful representations of same, they’re guilty of the very crime that the prohibition was intended to prevent: idolatry. They’re treating him “as though he were a divine being” who must never be criticized or questioned.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 25, 2010 05:58 PM | Send