Fatwa bans emoticons

:-D

You can't beat a bit of RoP&trade comedy!

No fun in Islam. Ha ha...may they should have Jihadi emoticons and burqa clad emoticons. Boy that sounds like fun. That just might unleash the Mohammedan psychotic behavior.

"A woman should not use these images when speaking to a man who is not her mahram, because these faces are used to express how she is feeling, so it is as if she is smiling, laughing, acting shy and so on, and a woman should not do that with a non-mahram man.

Could we not have a compromise and have emoticons wearing Burkahs? That way, the men would not lose control of their sexual urges.

:-P

Phhhhhhhft! on them all

"mahram"

He my man. He my maaahraaam.

Infidels :-) Fatwas :-(

,,!,

They can (_x_)

Issue a fatwa for them being (_?_)s

Lan astalem,

GoingThere

translations

1) the bird
2) kiss my xxx
3) issue a fatwa for them being dumb axxes
gt

Emoticons are forbidden...
...............

@>:-(##

The above is an emoticon of an angry, bearded Muslim in a turban issuing a fatwa against emoticons.

Islam is a caricature of itself.

"Emoticons are Un-Islamic"

These guys think too much. We could always counter with "Oh, yea? Well, fatwas are un-Christian. Phffft..."

Tom Cox, in an article about emoticons in The Sunday (London) Times for April 15, 2007, gives credit for the INITIAL idea of the emoticon to the creator of Humbert Humbert, Charles Kinbote, and the van Veens:

"As far back as 1969 Vladimir Nabokov suggested there should be a typographical sign for a smile, but the invention of the :-) and :-( symbols to respectively denote jokes and nonjokes is most widely credited to a computer boffin called Scott Fahlman in 1982."

Quaere: Who gets credit for creating the word "boffin"? For that matter, who gets credit for inventing Scott Fahlman, Vladimir Nabokov, Tom Cox and, come to think of it, you and me, dear reader?

Oh my gosh, Hugh is in great form today!

"mahram"

He my man. He my maaahraaam.

Posted by: Hugh at November 13, 2008 2:28 PM

`~@>8-{|> turban bomb muhtoon emoticon

Porky says, dats all folks!

Porky hahaha...

Lan astalem,

GoingThere

Would a triangle with two dots in the middle (or one) for a NIQAB emoticon be halal?

Ayman bin khaled narrates:
"I shall divide this small article into four sections: ..."

And seven sections follow.

Snicker.

Geez...
Now I have heard everything.

I am curious as to what would constitute 'necessity' in a public chat room.

"Emoticons are forbidden because of its imitation to Allah’s creatures"...

but blowing Allah's creatures to pieces is permitted...

I bet there is a fatwa somewhere banning REASON

Unbelievable.

It should be compulsory to write the following sentence on the doors of the Islamic worship places -

"Islam will permanently cripple your brain, enter at your own risk!"

"Emoticons are forbidden because of its imitation to Allah’s creatures"...

Are emoticons less imitative of "Allah's creatures" than, say, Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse, or other adult-sized animals who appear on "The Children's Hour" and similar programs on "Palestinian" TV to whip up murderous hatred, in the youngest of viewers, against the Jews the hated "Yahudin"?

No fun in Islam.... :-

Islam is for retards

;o)

Smiley me....and winking at all the watchers here.
Oh I am a bad girl.....

I think I'll just go trolling in the islamofacists chat rooms and use emoticons for everything now that I know it annoys them.

And what is the penalty for using emoticons? Death as usual?

FINALLY, a fatwa I can get behind. Emoticons are for pre-schoolers.

It is only permissible for a woman to speak to men in cases of necessity, so long as that is in a public chat room and not in private correspondence.

You can't make this stuff up!

"It is only permissible for a woman to speak to men in cases of necessity"

Muslim women put up with this?

It explains why marriages have to be arranged. No one gets to know one another before the nuptials.

I think I'll just go trolling in the islamofacists chat rooms and use emoticons for everything now that I know it annoys them.

Posted by: gymgal

LOL, good idea!

Do they like Kitties? >^..^

.....>^..^

that's weird -- the wiskers on the right won't print out for me

" It is only permissable for a woman to speak to a man in case of neccessity."

Since the reply would make no sense, what would be the point?

I'm still trying to figure out why using a computer is ok. Aren't they supposed to avoid all forms of modernity with the exception of cars, guns and explosives (cars for using as bombs only)?

The irony in islam makes me dizzy.

So emoticons are banned.

But mass slaughter against innocent civilians in Darfur is alright.

I get it now.

What about M&M candies? They have faces too.

I still regard the one about the goat with its tail pointing up in the air as a personal favourite though - and the female tomatoes of course.

No depictions of faces in Islam allowed?

What to do....oh what to do?

These people are just total NUTTERS!!

These perverted men,, see sex in everything!

Their women, put up with this stupidity??

No wonder their countries are so backward and ignorant, with morons like these brainwashing the poor slobs.

Bill Warner,, has a new piece,, he has the RIGHT idea,, folks,,

http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/you-only-need-to-kill-one/

solsticewitch13
"don't annoy the bikers
it's a islam free zone"

Ummah Gummah,

Ha ha ha ha...good one man! Where you been? Good to see you back fighting the good fight.

"What about M&M candies? They have faces too."
--- from a posting above at 6:43 p.m.

Asked and Answered, sir. Asked and Answered, at this site, long ago.

Oh when?

More than four years ago, on July 3, 2004, when a piece was put up about the Blind Sheik, Abdel Rahman, in which it was noted, in passing, that his favorite prison snack consisted of that quintessential American candy, M&Ms.

Here is a posting from the relevant thread:

"M&M's have iconic status as the favorite candy of American schoolchildren, who would, before eating them, carefully arrange them into piles according to color -- with oranges and reds being the rarest, and hence the most tasty, to be eaten last, while the brown ones were the commonest, and therefore were the least desirable, to be gobbled first.

Pudeur prevents one from alluding to the well-known advertisement for M&Ms in the innocent days of one's youth; but if one felt like it, no doubt some sleight of word might be performed with the double-entendre. However, the temptation should be resisted for many reasons, not least to show a strength of character superior to that of Sheikh Abdel Rahman, who apparently finds those M&Ms irresistible. We Infidels must not let down the side."

[Posted by: Hugh at July 3, 2004 12:04 AM]

I wonder if green M&M's are haram? Those are the tastiest :)

OK - what about putting a burqua over the smiley face? ... Maybe they could do something like this:

[ ## ] Love that mesh to see through ...

From Bill Warner's article,
Is it impossible to kill 1.5 billion Muslims? It is a military possibility, but kafirs do not have the political will for such a task. Besides, it is not necessary to kill Muslims. You just need to kill Mohammed. In short, we need to launch an ideological war to respond to Islam's jihad doctrine.

An ideological war would include our schools, particularly state schools, teaching about the Koran and the Sunna. History courses that would include the Tears of Jihad, the killing of 270 million kafirs. Women's studies that would include Sharia law. Religion courses that would teach the death of Christianity in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa. Military history that would include the great battles of Islam. Courses on slavery that would go beyond the standard-issue West Africa/white man on wooden ships.

Oh yeah, I forgot my emoticon...
⊕
That's cross hairs for you.

And what is the penalty for using emoticons? Death as usual?
Posted by: gymgal [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 13, 2008 4:32 PM

Slow, excruciating, bloody death if allah's minions can hunt you down and eternal damnation in the fires of hell now or later, but guaranteed.

It would be too hilarious if somebody could make a burka-clad emoticon doing a belly dance! I would put them on everything and I know "Ask the Imam" would just love them.

I'm still trying to figure out why using a computer is ok.

walterc,

No irony. Just like guns and explosives, the computer is a tool in the jihad. It enables the spread of Islam. It reaches more people than someone in the town square calling everyone to prayer.

So chatting online is adultery now? By that logic, and the emoticons-are-idolatry/too-human/allah's-creatures line of thinking, a man alone with a bottle of Aunt Jemima or a woman alone with a box of Uncle Ben's or a jar of Newman's Own spaghetti sauce would also be committing adultery. Oh, wait, the spaghetti sauce is un-Islamic anyway because it contains garlic and nullifies prayer and its proceeds go to help filthy kafir charities. Plus Aunt Jemima isn't wearing a burka (sexy bitch that she is!) and all human faces are idolatry. Plus Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Mr. Clean are black, so they're raisinheads who go to hell, and Paul Newman acted in movies (yet another form of idolatry) helped the kafirs through charity, and raced cars (more idolatry). Yet another list of good things Muslims are missing out on, but they'll somehow contrive an explanation as to how it's all halal anyway, just like the did the Internet, the ultimate in compromising cultish milieu control.

Freedom of expression and speech
should be a right not a privilege...

Very sad!

I agree, emoticons are dangerous. Emoticons are unstable, morphing from one face to the next.
Almost anything can cause a happy emoticon to frown, or even scream...

Emoticons are puppets of human unstable emotional output.
This is clearly un-Islamic, and a huge fear.
Shariah is supposed to contain the unstable emotional output of Mohammadans, and steer them toward Allah.

Emoticons are stumbling blocks that get in the way, and have to be removed. Emoticons are the enemy of Shariah and Islam...

That's why the west needs to use more of them...
Emoticon wars...Better than bullets, safer than bombs...

There is a controversy as to who actually invented them, some say Iblis, some say Al-Gore.
I lean toward Al-Gore...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/salsabeela/2454002295/

Hijabi emoticons. >:(

I've also seen smiley face emoticons (the yellow ones like the illo. in the article, not the asci ones) wearing a hijab and a burka.

Blech.

Sobekneferu, is it any wonder that the FLICKR contributor suffers from "writer's block"?

It can't possibly be due to being trapped in a closed system, could it?

LOL, duh_swami! You crack me up!

Sobekneferu: I love it! Halal emoticons!

champ: I think the right-side whiskers don't show up because the software thinks it's a starting HTML tag, and gets confused trying to find the matching right bracket.

Let's see if this works:   <

(finally!!) type these 5 characters without spaces:     & # 6 0 ;     (the number 60)

So here's the (very un-halal) kitten:        >^..^ <

For some reason, It doesn't like spaces between things that aren't words, or strings of spaces. It'll collapse them into one space. To move the kitty away from the semicolon, type the code for a "non-breaking space":   & nbsp ;   (without the spaces) wherever you want a space. If you want more than one space, you have to alternate between the "nbsp" code and a plain old spacebar space.

Hugh: The credit for "boffin" goes to the British of WW II. (See the Wiki article.) Giving credit to Nabokov is good, because, after all, the Russians inwented just about everything. And Peter the Great inwented the Russians.

And yeah, Scott Fahlman takes the credit for the first "smiley face" - though he does admit it may be an independent thing. The exact date of the post he made with it is Sept 19, 1982 (that would be a Sunday).

I vote for a National Holiday on Sept 19: Smiley Face Day (or Scott Fahlman Day, whichever you prefer).

Hey Mike -- thanks for the tip! >^..^

Ahhhh! .....I tried!

Maybe kitty having a bad-wisker-day will work instead, lets try that one: #^..^#

Try again.... >^..^

Champ,

>^..^I know what the matter is--those diagonal brackets are used to enter HTML tags, and an initial bracket and that which follows it is read as a tag, not text, and thus not printed. Any closed pair of diagonal brackets, content enclosed or not, similarly don't print; they just disappear from the resultant printed text.

Sorry; Mike already noted my point.

Hey, John C --

I tried to follow Mike's instructions as he suggested, but I'm obviously doing something wrong. >^..^&dcf;

...one final try >^..^<

Finally! Thanks again, Mike!

I had an emoticon, you had an emoticon, we all have emoticons together, except Mohammadans, well they have them, but they are very small, and don't work very well. Usually they are dis-functional.

Kufr emoticans are much larger than Mohammad emoticons, and almost all kuffir emoticons function perfectly.

So I don't know about you folks, but I am going to keep using my emoticons when ever I get the urge, even if Mohammadans ban them...