Denmark On Muhammeds Naughty List, page 17

Originally posted by Riwka
Wall Street Journal reports some interesting details how the whole thing was orchestered:

Bonfire of the Pieties

The "rage machine" was set in motion when the Muslim Brotherhood - a political, not a religious, organization - called on sympathizers to take the field.

Good find Riwka, however I would not call it reported since it is an OP/ED that was published, albeit a very good one that appears to be right on target. The part I like was further down where it states

The Muslim Brotherhood's position, put by one of its younger militants, Tariq Ramadan--who is, strangely enough, also an adviser to the British home secretary--can be summed up as follows: It is against Islamic principles to represent by imagery not only Muhammad but all the prophets of Islam; and the Muslim world is not used to laughing at religion. Both claims, however, are false.

There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else. When it spread into the Levant, Islam came into contact with a version of Christianity that was militantly iconoclastic. As a result some Muslim theologians, at a time when Islam still had an organic theology, issued "fatwas" against any depiction of the Godhead. That position was further buttressed by the fact that Islam acknowledges the Jewish Ten Commandments--which include a ban on depicting God--as part of its heritage. The issue has never been decided one way or another, and the claim that a ban on images is "an absolute principle of Islam" is purely political. Islam has only one absolute principle: the Oneness of God. Trying to invent other absolutes is, from the point of view of Islamic theology, nothing but sherk, i.e., the bestowal on the Many of the attributes of the One.

The claim that the ban on depicting Muhammad and other prophets is an absolute principle of Islam is also refuted by history. Many portraits of Muhammad have been drawn by Muslim artists, often commissioned by Muslim rulers.

Bonfire of the Pieties

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

If what the author says is true, then the OP/ED clearly shows that this was an orchestrated attack by Al queda/fanatic sects and not one of main stream Muslims as they wanted it to appear.

I tried to find more info on the author unfortunately, I got 28 hits on the name and very little on the authors credentials.

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