Muhammad Cartoon Hoax: Difference between revisions

|[[File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-01.jpg|Left|210px|thumb|This image allegedly depicts Muhammad as a pig.]]

|[[File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-02.jpg|Left|210px|thumb|This image allegedly depicts Muhammad having sex with a dog.]]

|[[File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-03.jpg|Left|210px|thumb|This image depicts Muhammad as a pedophile demon.]]

The first image is allegedly a depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a pig. This is highly offensive to Muslims due to pigs, along with [[urine]], faeces and non-Muslims, being considered "najis" (impure).<ref name="najis">(Asad) "O YOU who have attained to faith! Those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God are nothing but impure: and so they shall not approach the Inviolable House of Worship from this year onwards And should you fear poverty, then [know that] in time God will enrich you out of His bounty, if He so wills: for, verily, God is all-knowing, wise!" - Qur’an 9:28</ref><ref>The following ten things are essentially najis [impure, unclean]: 1. Urine 2. Faeces 3. Semen 4. Dead body 5. Blood 6. Dog 7. Pig 8. Kafir [unbeliever] 9. Alcoholic liquors 10. The sweat of an animal who persistently eats najasat - [http://web.archive.org/web/20100119121959/http://www.sistani.org/local.php?modules=nav&nid=2&bid=59&pid=2857 <!-- http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20100119121959%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sistani.org%2Flocal.php%3Fmodules%3Dnav%26nid%3D2%26bid%3D59%26pid%3D2857&date=2012-01-25 -->Islamic Laws : Najis things » Introduction] - Al-Sistani.org, Internet Archive capture dated January 19, 2010</ref><ref name="najis2">“...And, that they [the dhimmis] should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths. ...It is also incumbent upon Muslims that they should not accept from them victuals with which they had come into contact, such as distillates, which cannot be purified. If something can be purified, such as clothes, if they are dry, they can be accepted, they are clean. But if they [the dhimmis] had come into contact with those clothes in moisture they should be rinsed with water after being obtained. ...It would also be better if the ruler of the Muslims would establish that all infidels could not move out of their homes on days when it rains or snows because they would make Muslims impure...” - Muhammad Baqir Majlesi (1616 – 1698 AD) - Lightning Bolts Against the Jews</ref> It was only discovered later that it was not Danish, nor was it a cartoon at all, but a fax copy of a photo, and this photo was in fact not a depiction of the Islamic prophet, but of Jacques Barrot, a pig squealing contestant at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.<ref>[http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54 Danish Imams Busted] - Neander News, </ref> The original image can be viewed [http://www.wikiislam.net/w/uploads/0/00/Pigsquealcontest.jpg here].  

The second image allegedly depicts Muhammad having sex with a dog. Again, dogs are considered najis,<ref name="najis"></ref><ref name="najis2"></ref> and although admittedly Muhammad had [[Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Muhammad#Muhammad_the_Rapist|raped women]] and committed [[Aisha Age of Consummation|pedophila]], there is no hadith that suggest he partook in [[Islam and Bestiality|bestiality]].  

The extra images were accepted by several major News outlets (including the [[Australia|Australian]] network SBS and the [[United Kingdom|British]] BBC, who later admitted their mistake)<ref>[http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/778 BBC Admits Fatal Negligence] - The Brussels Journal, February 8, 2006</ref> as being part of the original twelve Jyllands-Posten images. It is quite shocking that these huge news organisations could fail to do some simple fact-checking before broadcasting factually incorrect information about such sensitive issues.  

According to the BBC, the source of these images (through their own admission) has been traced back to the delegation of Danish Muslim leaders themselves.<ref>"...''This picture, a fuzzy grey photocopy, can now be traced back (suspicion having been confirmed by an admission) to a delegation of Danish Muslim leaders who went to the Middle East in November to publicise the cartoons. The visit was organised by Abu Laban, a leading Muslim figure in Denmark''..." - [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4686536.stm A clash of rights and responsibilities], Paul Reynolds, World Affairs correspondent, BBC News, February 6, 2006</ref> The delegation claimed they were sent to Danish Muslims, but failed to verify where and to whom they were sent.

Many suspect that it was in fact the Muslim leaders who produced these images in an attempt to heighten Muslim aggression towards the original Danish publication. This would not be surprising, considering [[lying]] is [[Lying and Deception in Islam|permitted in Islam]], and [[Muslims Caught Using Deception|other Muslim leaders]] such as Omar Bakri Mohammed and Noor Ramjanally have no qualms about doing such things. Whatever the case may be, the actions of the delegation (by promoting the relatively unknown images to Muslim countries) and these additional and infinitely more offensive images, have no doubt contributed greatly to the massive and senseless world-wide death-toll.

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