#islam blasphemy

[fucker494978]

A jao sab Muslim bheno ager pori ratt ibadat krni mazhabi unlimited k lye message kru Iman taza kre

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

A religion that shows no respect deserves and gets no respect.

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Yes it is. 

I have the right under every understanding of democratic principles and international jurisprudence to say whatever I like about your god or your prophet or anyone else you feel should be above insult and mockery.

If you believe otherwise, you are wrong. 

The good news is that you should feel free to absolutely trash people and ideas I feel “should” not be trashed, such as Werner Herzog, human freedom, and my father.

At no point is any kind of violence an appropriate response to blasphemy or mockery of any kind. 

[totheidiot]

maashalla brother mikami he is making his pilgrimage for kira

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I have heard this from many of my Muslim friends - "I know what he did is wrong but that guy (who got killed) should not have insulted our prophet"

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Pakistani Christians Protest Pakistan's Heinous Blasphemy Law

To: pressattache@embassyofpakistanusa.org

To Whom It May Concern;

I join the call of the Catholic Bishops of Pakistan in decrying the persecution of Pakistani Christian Ahsan Raja Masih under Pakistan's onerous Blasphemy law, which is a defacto heinous violation of basic human rights.  

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/07/islamic-republic-of-pakistan-church-pleads-for-christian-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy

I will be sharing this post widely and encourage others to do likewise.

Richard Roy Blake

Thornton Colorado USA

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The concept of jihaad

“The concept of Jihad as defined by Sharia law.”By: Ofer binshtok.09.0 JIHAD (0: Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad. As for the greater jihad, it is spiritual warfare against the lower self (nafs), which is why the Prophet (Allah  bless him and give him peace) said…

[wolffyluna]

I think I may have made some prosleytizers happy today.

I just wanted to grab some pamphlets from the "Hello! Please join Islam" group (I Like Religious Pamphlets), but I was willing to talk and my approximate knowledge of many things extended enough to Islam that I think I kind of ?impressed? them. And I think I may have also convinced them that they had got me on the hook. I was a single failed conversational reflex save from saying the shahada.

The thing is, while my mouth was being friendly and interested, internally I was going "...that's not a revelation from God, that's something you could have known by mundane means," "that's not a revelation from God, and it's not even how mountains work," "While I can't say definitevely that that's not a revelation from God, I will point out that in any book containing a lot of imagery, the probability that that imagery can apply if you squint to something centuries later rapidly approaches 1."

And now, an hour or so later, I find myself coming up with ways to make their arguments for the truth of Islam better.

You see, the person I was talking to's argument against Christianity was that there were "too many versions of the Bible" and could you really trust your immortal soul with that? Now, he could have meant "the whole situation with the apocrypha is /weird/ when it comes to a revelation from God, what are y'all even doing." But no, from context, he meant the fact that they were multiple English translations.

Which, uh, bold words from the guy who's own sacred text has multiple English translation?

Now, points to Islam, they have way more of a tradition of reading the Quran in Arabic compared to Christians' and reading the original Hebrew/Aramaic/Koine Greek. But Christians do... do that. (I think he was also judging them for not reading Jesus' words in the "original Arabic" but. um. There are some technical difficulties with doing that.)

The thing is, if I wanted to argue that Christians had a) recieved a revelation from God, but b) had willfully misinterpreted it and stewarded it badly, I would not go for English translations. No, there's a better slam dunk* lined up here: The Nicene Creed.

It won't work against all Christians, but he's going for an Australian audience here, and Australian Christians mostly fall under the Nicene umbrella.

And the Nicene Creed is a statement of orthodox Christian belief that isn't in the Bible. Chunks of it are made up of implications from the Bible, that come with wild disagreement about. And it was (arguably) created for political purposes by a Roman Emperor! Come on! It's an easy shot, stop running down the wrong side of court going "but the NIV vs the KJV!"

*Read: more convincing to weird religious nerds like moi.

[cults-arent-just-religious]

Pedophiles stop adding onto the Bible challenge (impossible)

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Thoughts on misunderstood blasphemy

Addressing the Icchra Bazaar Incident

Is it the correct approach to hate someone because they don’t fit within my understanding of religion?

Labelling someone a kaafir or assuming they're disrespecting religion just because "you think so" while you have zero proof about the actions of that person. What does it say about you? Or, what does it say about our religion? I am not going to comment on what it says about the person, but I am 100 percent sure that my religion isn't what those people believe and portray. Let's just forget about the incident and see how Allah tells us to be with actual people who do not believe in our religion.

We do not believe in what the Jews and Christians believe, and we should be upfront about it. However, we should not hate them for their beliefs. We, as Muslims, don't draw that line between disagreeing with them and hating them for their beliefs.

Unfortunately we’re like, “if they commit shirk, we hate them.”

If you hate them, how are you going to invite them to Allah’s message? You can't invite someone towards Allah if you hate them. How are you going to invite them?

"Hey, I hate you for what you are doing, so believe in my religion?" NOOO!

Is this how Allah’s messenger shared the message of Islam? No! We need to look at ourselves and see what we’re doing wrong. You can’t invite someone and hate them at the same time. We don't hate non-Muslims; we can't. We should not. Because if we do, then we can't do dawah. The Prophet (SAW) didn't hate the people he was inviting. If he had hated them, he couldn't have done dawah to them.

Our understanding is skewed. We think we have to hate non-believers; we have to look down upon people.

How do you invite someone without showing them respect and courtesy? What kind of invitation would that be?

This attitude of being respectful and courteous has come directly from the Quran; it's not something I am coming up with. The Quran wants us to honor people we give dawah to.

If this is our religion's approach towards someone who actually does not believe in Islam, then how are we supposed to be with people who share our faith? It's a question that should make us take some time out from our "very religious" lives and think about.

[fucker494978]

Koe hai mazhabi bhen bhai Jo apna Iman taza kre chat py

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[possil]

A BLOCKHEAD INTERVENES

The wokes of the UK should be down on their bended knees thanking whatever it is they worship for Lee Anderson MP. With one clumsy statement he got them off the hook. By saying that Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, is ‘controlled’ by Islamists, he managed to refocus the debate. What had been under discussion was the effect of Islamists in our midst threatening Parliament and browbeating…

[atheistcartoons]

Here is an article for OnlySky I wrote about the firing of Erika López Prater by Hamline University. 

There is also a brief tour of the Islamic aversion of images of Muhammad and religious censorship in general. 

[illithidjamison]

Is it blasphemous to do a haphazard prayer to Allah on behalf of the people of Gaza? I sas raised extremely christian so I don't like. Know how to do it properly and I've been trying to learn but reading is hard and people who I ask how to pray assume I'm making fun of them. I'm suuuuuper white so that's. Kind of a reasonable assumption. I'm not making fun though.

The reason I want to pray to Allah and not the christian god is because I feel like Allah has done more for the hearts and minds of the gazan people whereas Jesus and the people acting in his name have done nothing but tear them down.

Idk I'm super poor so really all I have is my voice and I want to offer it up, however meager.

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