Dr. Yassir Burhami, vice president of Egypt’s Salafi party, issued a fatwa or Islamic decree last week saying that it is forbidden to hang pictures of “Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse” inside of children’s bedrooms.
Burhami added on the website ana salafi (“I am a Salafi”) that “All children toys are thrown on the ground by the child and he hugs it later, and there is no problem with this. However, I see no permissibility for hanging such pictures, according to a sahih (canonical) hadith of the prophet of Islam (peace and blessings on him), that ‘The angels do not enter homes that contain a dog or picture.’”
Salafis are modern day Muslims who closely pattern themselves after the words and deeds of Muhammad the prophet of Islam as recorded in the hadith and other sources. Because of this, they are a treasure trove of information concerning the practices and teachings of Islam’s founder and earliest followers.
Unsurprisingly, then, it is Salafi-minded Muslims who routinely evoke and uphold any number of things deemed absurd or evil in a Western context—from trying to enforce a canonical hadith that compels women to breastfeed adult men (ironically, to protect their “chastity”) to drinking camel urine for good health, to calling for the destruction of all churches. In all cases, Muhammad said so.
Accordingly, this same Dr. Burhami, the Egyptian Salafi leader, has been responsible for a number of “controversial” fatwas, including that Islam permits Muslim husbands to abandon their wives to rapists in order to save their own lives; that, although a Muslim man may marry non-Muslim women, specifically Christians and Jews, he must hate them—and show them that he hates them—because they are “infidels” (even as he enjoys them sexually); that Muslim cab and bus drivers are forbidden from transporting Coptic Christian priests to their churches, which he said was “more forbidden than taking someone to a liquor bar”; that marriage to minor girls is permissible; that Muslims must not celebrate Mother’s Day—“even if it saddens your mother”—because it is a Western innovation; and that Muslims are not permitted to leave Islam.
It is this mentality that the Egyptian government of Sisi recently permitted to return to Egypt’s mosques and media.
Jovial Joe says
Szufferin’ szukatash’ as Sylvester the Cat would say, and making significantly more sense in doing so than this Szalafi cartoon character.
Don McKellar says
If there actually were such a thing as angels, the last homes they would ever enter would be of those who bow and bang their heads on the floor five times a day to the the antichrist Mohammad.
medina says
You say ‘antichrist’ yet decry angels as nonexistent. ?? Lucifer was the angel who became Satan, and he darkens the door of every Muslim home.
Michael Roberts says
I think he might have been being a bit metaphorical ;o)
jihad3tracker says
Do we remember the storm of indignation when a courageous truth-teller (I forgot who – sorry) mentioned how few major awards Muslims have been awarded in — paraphrasing here — the sciences and factually-grounded knowledge ?
Well, this JW post just might offer a clue to why . . .
Angemon says
Richard Dawkins on Twitter?
jihad3tracker says
Bingo ! ! ! Thanks muchly.
Tommy Guns says
Ha, Ha, Ha, how did this Dr. Burhami ever get a university degree??
OMG, have you ever heard anything as ludicrous as issuing a decree against Donald and Mickey?
TH says
With so many prohibitions how is it that Internet is not forbidden.
gerard says
angels do not enter homes containing Muslims or Korans
Steffen Larsen says
Good one!
Michael Roberts says
That’s probably more like it.
Joginder Singh says
The lunatics have taken over the asylum……Anyway I believe what any mindless muslim mullah says in the same I believe the current crop of dhimmi politicians who are supposed to be running the democracies say
Elise says
It’s too bad that every part of the construction of a home or apartment, from the nails to the furniture would contain lard or gelatin from a pig.
dumbledoresarmy says
How long, I wonder, until there is a jihad ghazi raid upon Disneyland, whether the original Disneyland, or a location such as Eurodisney in France?
Further observation.
This anathematising of pet dogs and pictures is one of the things that reveals Islam to be fundamentally antihuman. It isn’t just that Islam hates ‘the west’ or that it hates and attacks civilisation. It attacks human-ness.
Islam – pure by-the-book Islam – sets itself against two things that have been part of nearly every known human society, whether primitive or civilisaed, ever since humans became human: the companion dog, “he who trots behind”, “man’s best friend”, and …representational art.
In the grotto of Chauvet, where the most hauntingly-beautiful paintings of animals were made by human beings in the Stone Age, 35 000 years ago, there is , so I recall reading, a place where foot prints are preserved in the mud. One is the footprint of a human child; the other is the footprint of a wolf, or of an early dog. Side-by-side. There is no way the animal would have gone into the depths of that cavern on its own. It was not hunting the child. It was *with* the child.
35 000 years ago, the dog was already walking with people. And it’s believed the ancient alliance of human and dog goes back even further.
And Islam sets itself against *that*? Anathematises *that*? Insane.
bernie says
Mo apparently liked cats though, and cats have generally been treated much better in the Muslim world than in the medieval Christian world. I have read that perhaps he disliked dogs, because a barking dog gave away his hiding place to a group of enemies one time.
Judi says
Speaking of Disneyland, muzzrats have made their presence known there as well. Nowhere is safe from these 7th century barbarians!
http://pamelageller.com/2010/08/sharia-in-america-imposing-islam-on-disney.html/
CeceD says
Thank you for that bit of history, I want to know more. Beautiful image as you told it; that this cult is against what it is, and that it does what it does, are counter intuitive to what they say they are.
Society’s leaders are complicit, as they keep telling us, “It’s not what it looks like, Islam is the religion of peace, this was workplace violence.” No, it’s not. No, it wasn’t. We are being mind-played. Intuitively, and with a well calibrated moral compass, we know what we know.
As I learned in a class years ago, “A thing is a thing … and not another thing.” No matter how they reclassify this, it shows us what it is, by how it lives in the world..
SallyA says
@ dumbledoresarmy – Islam – pure by-the-book Islam – most grievously sets itself against the key thing that has been part of nearly every known human society, whether primitive or civilized, ever since humans became human: the companionship of man and woman, relegating her in Islam to “she who trots behind” when she’s not virtually imprisoned and punished by males behind closed doors.
Your points about art and dogs true also. Islam is a cluster fu*! — FUBAR. Not opposing Islam in every place we have voices while we have the freedom to do so is the stupidest thing Western civilized people have ever failed to do.
Jay Boo says
Yet, Muhammad claimed to be visited by an angel.
Wolfgang says
he WAS visited by one of the Prince of Demons…….disguised as an Angel of light….
Galatians 1:8
“which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!…
dave1543 says
Muhammad got Islam from Satan. That’s why they are so mad against Christians and Jews. Muhammad was about as evil as a person can be. Those early Muslims were nothing more than a gang of criminals.
Aussie Infidel says
This guy has a doctorate? A Phd? In what? Theocratic lunacy? He would be a prime example of intelligence being no match for religious indoctrination. Feed someone enough bullshit when they are young and have no personal resources to refute what they are told, and you can mold a mindset capable of the most irrational thought. All those unconscious memories, learnings and behaviours come pouring out on cue, just as if he had been given a post hypnotic suggestion – except that because of other psychological factors, it is even more deeply embedded. Note the ‘mark of Islam’ on his forehead – his prayer bump or ‘zabiba’ – from continually banging his head on the floor.
“Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from Allah and [His] pleasure. Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. That is their description in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is as a plant which produces its offshoots and strengthens them so they grow firm and stand upon their stalks, delighting the sowers – so that Allah may enrage by them the disbelievers. Allah has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward (paradise complete with all those virgins).” (Quran 48:29 SI).