It's not just the Danes anymore. But although the questions below seem to have been understood as mocking, the Hadith contains much information about Muhammad just like the material here. In my book The Truth About Muhammad I quote Muqtedar Khan of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy: "No religious leader has as much influence on his followers as does Muhammad (Peace be upon him) the last Prophet of Islam…So much so that the words, deeds and silences (that which he saw and did not forbid) of Muhammad became an independent source of Islamic law."
By Robert Tait in The Guardian, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Iranian MPs have demanded an apology from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after teachers were given government-sponsored tests deemed "insulting" to the prophet Muhammad.
Why? Did the Thug-In-Chief write these questions?
The exam - sat by teachers seeking promotion - provoked outrage by posing questions which appeared to degrade Islam's holiest figure by alluding to personal habits and proclivities. Most of the 40 multiple-choice questions have been judged so mocking that Iran's state-controlled media has refrained from publishing them.One less offensive question, reproduced by local newspapers and websites, lists four choices when asking how Muhammad compared himself with the prophet Joseph. They are: "A) I am more beautiful than Joseph; B) Joseph is more beautiful than me; C) I am cuter than Joseph; D) Joseph is more beautiful than me but I am cuter than him." Others refer to his hair and beard colour.
The national teachers' representative body protested after the test was given to diploma and higher-diploma level teachers in Tehran province. The local education authority admitted the questions were "in bad taste" and withdrew them. An alternative exam is being drawn up for teachers who failed, although the results of those with pass marks have been declared valid.
Some MPs branded the incident a deliberate plot to undermine Iran's Islamic system and likened it to last year's row over Danish cartoons satirising Muhammad, which provoked outrage throughout the Muslim world after they were published in several European newspapers.
"What is the difference between these questions and the caricatures drawn in Denmark against the prophet?" said Emad Afrough, the fundamentalist head of the cultural committee in Iran's parliament.
[...]
Teachers were given 30 hours off classroom duties to study a biography of the prophet by the late Ayatollah Muhammad Tabatabai, a Shia philosopher whose teachings inspired many senior figures in Iran's Islamic revolutionary movement. Its strong focus on personal characteristics - including hygiene, physical appearance and eating habits - was the subject of staffroom gossip and jokes. "Some teachers were even exchanging notes on the book's content in text messages," one teacher told the newspaper Etemade Melli.
Personal questions
The test posed questions on the minutiae of the prophet Muhammad's life, including:
God's prophet never ate food with
a) Two fingers
b) Three fingers
c) Four fingers
d) Five fingers
God's prophet's hair was
a) Black
b) White
c) With the exceptions of a few hairs, predominantly black
d) Whitened at the end of his life
What colour was the prophet's beard?
a) Totally white, even upon his chin
b) Totally black, even over his chin
c) White over the chin and the rest salt and pepper
d) Salt and pepper over the chin and the rest white
On which side did God's prophet sleep?
a) On his back
b) On his chest
b) To the right
d) To the left
the filthy curr defamed moham and must be executed..............
do the world a favor and do it today...........
Muhammad mocks himself -- by the kind of man he was, and the kind of life he led as a murdering marauder.
Which best describes Mohammed:
a) A rapist
b) A thief
c) A Pediphile
d) A murderer
e) All of the above
I hope this question was on the exam!
I would like to add "false prophet or delusional" to the list.
After reading this I thought 'why would Ahmadinejad do this?'.
If the muslims are to create the Madhi (12th iman) they will need to quiz the people on what will be the most accepting characteristics. Or otherwards, this line of questions is creating the identity of a person that they are going to create.
I thought he put henna on his hair and beard. That is why so many imams look like orangs.
Pass the popcorn. I'm waiting for the mass demonstrations: "Death to Iran", "Death to Ahmadinejad"
On the making of Mohammedan Scholars:
bullshit is bullshit
but the study of bullshit is...
SCHOLARSHIP!
So are they going to riot and burn Iranian flags? or this only happens when infidels mock the prophet?
My Frink-O-Matic Irony Meter™ is smoking like a two-bit cigar.
Prepare for the joy of watching Islam turn upon itself. Evidently the Chief Thug's underthugs have decided that management just isn't up to snuff. As if the Sunni-Shia festivities weren't enough, now we are treated to the spectacle of testivities.
"Most of the 40 multiple-choice questions have been judged so mocking that Iran's state-controlled media has refrained from publishing them."
This is almost like Monty Python's "Funniest Joke in the World" skit. I can only imagine that those judges who try this case will only be able to examine a single word or two from any given question for fear that, they too, might be prone to burst out laughing, or worse, detect and experience the profoundly dire humiliation of witnessing Mohammed (may bees pee upon him) being mocked. [gasp]
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Skinless people living in a sandpaper world.
George Orwell would be so proud to see the world's most intolerant religion ratcheting up its own intolerance like this. Is it too soon to hope that this is only one of many such incidents whereby Islam's own bloated sense of gravitas forces itself into a grotesque death-spiral of auto-da-fé and self-incrimination?
Or is this just another sort of tomato-pricing conspiracy by Iran's mullahs to erode Ahmadinejad's popularity with the masses? I hope you don't mind if I laugh and point.
I agree - stone Ahmadinezad to death for insulting Islam. My answers in bold
"One less offensive question, reproduced by local newspapers and websites, lists four choices when asking how Muhammad compared himself with the prophet Joseph."
I want Muslims to apologize for their misuse of the word "prophet". Joseph was not a prophet.
Which Joseph is he talking about? Mary's husband was not a prophet. He wasn't even a religious leader. Is anyone mentioned by name in the Old or New Testament automatically a prophet in Islam? How about the women?
Of course this is just more madness from the slippery slope that is islam. When you look at what muslims do and why they do it in terms of their [worship] to allah [read:false god], it is mere external practices. That is, doing things because mohammed did them. Walking around the black rock, throwing stones, cursing a tree or whatever, all because Mohammed did. Were Christians to practice similarly, each Christian would walk around Galilee, pick up mud and put it on someopdy's eyes, attempt to walk across the water, etc. And Jews would re-enact Abraham's sacrifice of the ram, or wander around the desert, or perhaps try to cross the Red Sea. Those are all external things which to any civilized culture would obviously be repetitious frivolity with no meaning or consequence on the inner man where the gravity of choices and decisions are actually weighed. This could explain the unchecked darkness in the muslim heart which expresses itself in murder after murder after murder as has for 1300 years. It is nothing but demonic madness. And makes clear why the test question would ask how many fingers mohammed used to eat with...so that without thought, moral validity or conscience, the demon robots can "do-it-like-mohammed-peace-be-upon-him-did-it"...
Those details contain justification for killing someone for not being Islamic enough.
This just shows that the intolerance rife in Islamic society undermines its ability to even coexist with itself. If we could only understand that, we could avoid costly mistakes like the Iraqi democracy project.
Im Aware this is not the correct Story to post the following, however, I have recently been striving to help get information out about this Taxi Cab issue currently occuring at Minn airport. So, I wrote up a letter and have managed to get alot of people signed onto it and will be mailing them off in a big bulk Proirity box soon. I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in sending this in to the airport commission? If so, here is the letter I am referring to:
February 25, 2007
Metropolitan Airport Commission,
This letter is in regards to the issue currently brewing between your paying clients and the
irresponsible, discriminatory policies being practiced by your taxi services. Of the practices of serious
concern are the recent refusal of Muslim or Islamic practicing cab drivers to refuse fare for all persons
currently in possession of dogs, including guide dogs. These highly controversial
and illegal practices violate civil rights gaurenteed to seeing eye dogs and or/ other guide dogs under
state laws and provisions, including, but not limited to:
Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 256C, Sections 256C.01 through 256C.06, amended 1992
Sect. 256C.02 Public conveyances include airplanes, boats, taxis, trains, buses, and all other modes of transportation offered for public use.
Sect. 256C.02 Violation: Any person or agent thereof who interferes with the above enumerated rights is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable therefore under
Minnesota law. Sect. 256C.05
Among other issues of concern are taxi drivers who refuse to provide transport for all persons in the possession of wines, beers, and other alcoholic bottled items. The justification for the reasons of refusal are on religious grounds. However, they surrender they’re religious views when they assume the position of Public Servant, licensed by either the state or city, and in some instances, both. By refusing service they are discriminating by physical limitations, different belief systems, and by choice of life style, all of which are intentional violations of a person(s) civil rights.
Such open disregard for ones civil rights opens the door wide for a number of lawsuits. Worse yet, the airport of concern is an international destination hub, which could now grow into a national or trans-national lawsuit. We urge you to enforce the laws against discrimination. Not doing so would make you party to segregation. On one side, all those willing or forced into obedience of another persons religious beliefs (the taxi drivers/Islamic groups), and on the opposite side, those who choose to keep they’re own views of religion and life.
I, by signing this, endorse this letter and agree to take part against discrimination:
(PRINTED)
X_________________________________
(SIGNED)
X__________________________________
(CONTACT)
(_____) ______--____________
(ADDITIONAL NOTES)
(I'm aware this came up badly, if you want a copy of the document, please email me and I will happily send them off to you, along with the address to where it needs to go! thank you!)
To a middle aged WASP like myself, this fixation on Mo's physical being is halarious and sickening. It gives credence to my claim that Muslims are polytheists; they worship Mohammed and Allah. It is interesting that Christ's physical being was irrelevant.
I thought religion was a spiritual experience, silly me.
Obviously there was a mix up between these books and the ones in use in the King Fahed school in London.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2006861,00.html
Silly teachers. Why don't they just admit that this is a Zionist plot to humiliate muhammad?
It was the JEWS!!!!! FOr more anti-dhimmitude visit http://www.masada1234.blogspot.com - a new blog about Israeli and World politics.
I'm with Pelayo on this.
Muslim rage is a joke and a punch line all rolled into one. This is just more of the same. Maybe we can relax while ohmydinerscard (pbuh) is hung for blasphemy. Pass the goobers, please.
The sad thing is that by the time this is all over with they'll find a way to blame it all on Israel, or Jews in general. Mossad agents are obviously behind this.
In reality, Muhammed had a great deal of intense interest in his......ah personal appendage and it's care.....according to the discussions among Muslim scholars.
It sounds as if Ahmadinejad might have the same fixation and his questions focused on this.
Frankly, the question about pretty prophets sounds queer in the very British sense of the word. Maybe Ahmadinejad can watch dancing girls and not be stimulated by them as he was being hammered for last year, because he is in the closet and hinting he is a new kind of Muslim, Queer Eye on the Ahmadinejad Guy.
Those who composed this multiple-choice test were, no doubt, simple souls, and they do not recognize what is comical in the results. In the same way, those Iranians who were so proud of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and made the mistake, in their pride, of translating his Farsi texts about Islam into English/
They translated into English, and thereby, of gave English-speaking non-Muslims occasion for merriment not unmingled with horror as well as a glimpse into the world of the Higher Theology, Shi'a-Islam version.
There was that famous passage, for example, about the rules to be followed by pious Muslim men who had had sexual intercourse, of one sort or another, with a camel or goat or other animal, a kind of barnyard version of "Dating Dos and Don'ts":
"A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, however selling the meat to the next door village should be fine."
And this:
"If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrement become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned."
Once word spread of the English text, the Iranians were horrified to discover that not everyone in New York and Washington and Boston, in London and Dublin and Sydney, in Delhi and Bombay and Toronto and Vancouver, was taking those words in quite the right way. They stopped their translation project, and have tried as best they can to limit the distribution of the English text of Khomeini's Farsi words (but see Nafisi's "Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran" in which there is allusion to it).
How's the saying go? The Devil can't stand mockery?
That has a whole new meaning to me after the cartoon riots and the way they freak out and go ballistic over the slightest imagined insult.
If this test were to be administered to American high school students, they would no doubt be raising their hands throughout the test, with one sort of question or another, each more inane and infuriating than the next.
Here are some possibilities:
1. Excuse me, but on question one, what if it wasn't finger food? I mean, suppose he was having Knorr's leek soup, or Campbell's chicken soup, or maybe even some pasta? What are we supposed to do about that?
2. Sir, are you allowed to tell us if they had Grecian formula back in the day, when Muhammad was alive?
3. Hey, what about Grecian Formula? Oh, you already answered someone else about that earlier? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Can you repeat what you told him?
4. Do we get extra credit if we guess the name of the mattress? I think I read somewhere that it was a Sealy. Or maybe it was a Simmons Posturepedic. Now I'm confused.
5. I know this is a multiple-choice question test, but I want to write an essay for extra credit anyway. Something about Muhammad as a role-model for kids who need to create new careers for themselves. Can I?
6. Say, do we really have to use a No. 2 pencil to fill in with? Can't I use a No. 2 1/2? It's all I brought with me. I didn't know we were having a test today.
"The Devil can't stand mockery?"
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! I pride myself in the number of sayings comiitted to memory, but have never heard that one before. Congratulations, it is spot on!
"This just shows that the intolerance rife in Islamic society undermines its ability to even coexist with itself."
This should have been proven to us conclusively by the Shia-Sunni strife in liberated Iraq. Muslim "sensitivities" are coming full circle to where, like the snake biting its tail, Islam begins to consume itself. Unfortunately, this process is far too lethargic for it to ensure the West's security.
The folks who wrote these questions better know how to play dumb. But it does tell us that a lot of people in Iran must feel like they are in a system that is demented and infantile-or else that they have become demented and infantile. Somebody in Iran is a wise guy who should be writing comedy for Jackie Mason. This is good stuff.
God's prophet never ate food with
a) Two fingers
b) Three fingers
c) Four fingers
d) Five fingers
Forks were invented shortly after Mo's death.
I don't know. This whole subject seems to have an air of unreal about it. After all you are talking about a nut job that keeps an empty chair next to him in case the 12th Imam appears. This is as bad as the play Harvey where, the central character kept talking to a large white rabbit that couldn't be seen by anyone else!
If the story is true, my guess is that the Iranian MP's would want a change in government. How would they be able to keep a straight face about a leader that makes fun or appears to make fun of MO, Piss Be Upon Him (PBUH)? If it is a matter of translation, it shows to me that these people are probably further back than even the 6th century.
Credit man
6th Century Persia, with the Sassanids and Zoroastrians, was easily more advanced than Iran at any point of time between the battle of Qadashiya and today. 6th century would be a step forward for Iran.
"He was talking about Isaac's son Joseph the one whose jealous brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. Genesis 39:6 says "Joseph grew to be beautiful in form and appearance"."
Debv,
Thanks. I think you mean Jacob's son. He was the only other Joseph I knew of. I still ask: what made him a prophet? He wasn't a religious leader, either. Predicting a famine makes him a religious prophet? The Hebrew bible prophets start appearing in Joshua, long after Joseph died and the Israelites left Egypt with his bones in tow. It looks like if you're anyone in Judaism you're a prophet in Islam.
It's a fun thought experiment and exercise in absurdity to put one's self in the position of the model for all humanity, Muhammad-style, and imagine your various likes, dislikes, quirks, and hangups made sacrosanct.
And yet people pattern their lives, and assign value judgements according to the sort of questions in this quiz; that mindset is a massive obstacle to any effort at modernity in Islamic societies.
Infidel Pride, I certainly yield to you. My knowledge about this time and place is certainly lacking. However hanging around here has helped my knowledge and interest about it.
This is OT but did any of you see Hersi Ali on Bill Marr's show? She held the audience. I think even as dense as Marr is, he does get it!
HA! HA! HA!
I'm just wondering, if he ate with his fingers, did he wash them first ?
This is just very, very Pythonesque. And it would be so cool if Ahmadinutjob gets sacked by the Ayatollahs for this, then Israel won't have to deal with him. BTW, speaking of Monty Python, is Ayaan Hirsi Ali still thinking about making that Life of Brian movie about Muhammed?
"The Devil can't stand mockery?"
was looking for the actual quote but couldn't find it, came across a couple similar ones though:
“The devil...the proud spirit...cannot endure to be mocked.”
~Thomas Moore
“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”
~Martin Luther
1)It takes very little to enrage Muslims when Mr. Perfect is the subject.
2)This test is hilarious-whoever came up with it must be beheaded for violating Satan Khomeini's dictum that there is no humor in islam.
3)Mo never ate with his fingers at all since he, in fact, had cloven hooves.
I'd like to add the following question to the existing folio:
How many fingers did a certain German who is known by the name of "allahfanculo" use to give MoHAM MAD and all moslems the FINGER?
President Moomoo ImADinnerJacket is a zionist spy.
Off with his head!
I'm just wondering, if he ate with his fingers, did he wash them first ?
Posted by: Jeff
Yes, but only water no soap that might contain alchohol.
This is like the tomato conspiriacy. Ya don't suppose the CIA was in on this. I wonder how many teachers took the test before someone even noticed how strange it was. I only hope our teachers get tested on more relevant information than this.
'An alternative exam is being drawn up for teachers who failed, although the results of those with pass marks have been declared valid.'
from story
Can you believe that some of them failed, or passed for that matter?
Aunt Bea
Some Mahmoud personally wrote:
1) Spell 'Mohammed' without looking at how we have spelt it in the question.
2)Are there a lot of virgins in the Virgin Islands?
3)Do pilots take crash-courses?
4)How dead is the Dead Sea?
5)Do clowns wear really big socks?
Personal questions
The test posed questions on the minutiae of the prophet Muhammad's life, including:
God's prophet had genital warts on his
a) face
b) tongue
c) brain
d) wives
e) all of the above