A lack of perspective and common sense that increasingly afflicts not just al-Azhar, but the entire world.
Just for the record: drawing or publishing or displaying cartoons is an innocuous act by any objective standard. Murdering people who do those things — that’s an odious terrorist act.
“Key Muslim body Al-Azhar condemns ‘sick’ Mohammed cartoons,” AFP, June 25, 2015:
Cairo (AFP) – The leading Sunni Muslim seat of learning, Al-Azhar, on Thursday denounced the “sick imagination” behind cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were aired on Dutch national television.
A statement by the Cairo-based Al-Azhar also urged Muslims to “ignore this odious terrorist act”, a day after some 10 cartoons were screened by anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders during a television slot for political parties.
“The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism is greater and more noble than to be harmed by cartoons that have no respect for morals or civilised standards,” it said.
Many Muslims feel drawings of the prophet are disrespectful or outright blasphemous, and some Dutch Muslims have chosen to simply disregard Wilders.
Yeah, that’s why he is under 24-hour guard.
The Dutch politician said he was making the broadcasts to defend freedom of speech after two militants launched an attack in May on a Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas, before being shot dead by police.
“Freedom of speech must always prevail over violence and terror,” Wilders told viewers in the broadcast….
Indeed. But many in the once-free West think that defending the freedom of speech is “disrespectful” to Muslims, and must therefore be eschewed.
Brian says
Terror to Islamists=Crayons, pencils and paper and of course the Liberal media will lap that up completely and ignore honour killings, female mutilations, apostasy murderers, blasphemy murders, gang raping young girls, slavery, torturing and murdering young men et al in the name of Islam.
Brian says
BTW, bravo to Mr. Wilders and Dutch TV.
Huck Folder says
““The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism is greater and more noble than to be harmed by cartoons that have no respect for morals or civilised standards,” it said.”
“The stature of the prophet”
The ‘stature’ of a loose turd.
What did he prophesy?
“mercy and humanitarianism”
Citations? Fire on a man’s chest?
Banu Qurayza.
Aisha?
I thought not.
“greater and more noble”
Go ahead, polish THAT turd till kingdom come.
“no respect for morals or civilised standards”
You don’t KNOW either, and will NEVER know.
You are mentally incapable.
Pot meet kettle.
Projection, anyone?
It must take an extraordinarily cretinous ‘brain’ to cram so much NONSENSE into one sentence. That’s probably about the same lack of intelligence it would take a committee to write “The Book of Hate™”.
That’s why ‘islam’ is the laughing stock of the currently still CIVILIZED world.
Djinns, flat earth, muddy pool, black dogs, you are ALL, all 1.5 billion, certifiably INSANE.
And if you DON’T believe those banal, unbelievable FACTS of islam, then the seeds of apostasy are within you.
Westman says
There is something odious and smelly as rotting fish and it’s coming from Al-Azhar “scholars” who approve of death for apostacy and all the rest of Sharia and have the utter vulgarity to call it, “morals and civilised standards” They are anything but civilized and would and do make vicious animals from humans.
mortimer says
Islam is the inversion of morality.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Brilliant Mortimer! As O’Reilly would say: ‘Pithy’.
Westman says
“Freedom of speech must always prevail over violence and terror…”
This is the principle upon which the continuance of the free world rests and Geert Wilders is head and shoulders above the Dhimmi faux leaders of The Netherlands for having the courage to preserve Dutch Culture.
Like the California liberals, without forethought of consequential costs, who resisted the dams that could provide all of the water needs in a now drought-stricken state, the leaders of the EU look the other way as the enslavement of their populations begin; holding fast to a multicultural ideology that has already failed.
Hopefully, The Netherlands will say goodbye to Brussels and chart its own future rather than the ruin coming from unrestricted muslim emigration and the economic parasitism of the EU. What words will describe a Dutch person in 50 years?
David says
The west does not take Islamic theology seriously, in my opinion, mainly because it does not take ANY religion seriously. Without knowing what Islamic theology says, without taking the Islamic goal of world conquest and domination seriously ( seen in the conquests of Islam from the beginning), no reasonably accurate sense of their worldview can be obtained. The west treats Islam like a mild obsession, an affectation, an adjunct to Muslim’s lives. This is idiotic, self-defeating, dangerous…..( add your thoughts next ).
Koran-At-A-Glance says
Indeed. People simply won’t look into the theology, partly from apathy, partly from fear of what they might find (which might necessitate revising their comfortable view of Islam as just another religion) and partly because the scriptures are so opaque.
I don’t know what we can do about the first two, but we have attempted to counter the third by producing a version of the Koran which points you right to the dangerous elements. It also highlights abrogated and abrogating verses. Please see what you think:
http://www.koran-at-a-glance.com
Michael Copeland says
Useful. Thank you.
Well worth pointing out to others.
Lucretius says
“The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism is greater and more noble than to be harmed by cartoons that have no respect for morals or civilised standards,” it said.
Stop spouting absurd ideas of “mercy,” “humanitarianism,” and “moral and civilised standards” people will stop poking fun at them. Oh, wait…
Godless says
Mohammad cartoons on Dutch national television. That is progress. I hope that Wilders does not lose too many votes next election because of that though.
Wellington says
Again is demonstrated, and courtesy of a Muslim yet once more, that you can have Islam or you can have freedom. You can’t possibly have both.
Sadly, much of the Western world hasn’t figured this out yet——–and the Islamic world is gleeful about this because so much of it really does seek “the destruction of Western Civilization from within.”
Eviscerate liberty, as Islam so wishes and fools aplenty among the Western elites are aiding by being good dhimmis, and the cornerstone of cornerstones of Western Civilization will be no more. Thereafter, it is just a matter of time before the West collapses completely.
Muslims are counting on this, aided by Far Leftists in the West who so hate traditional Western Civilization that they are ready to align themselves with those who will destroy them after they destroy the West. Can’t make this stuff up.
epistemology says
Dear Wellington,
I’m as pessimistic as you are. Geert Wilders is an intrepid freedom fighter, but we’ve got far too few in the West. Islam as all totalitarian systems opposes freedom diametrically. I don’t understand these complacent Westerners who take their freedom for granted and don’t realise that it’s in jeopardy. We have to fight for our freedom more than ever. I’ve always been a liberal myself but I don’t understand these self-hating Westerners. I’ve always cherished the core Western values. I’m not saying the West is best, I admire other civilisations such as the Chinese, but the West is my home country and I don’t want to live anywhere else.
I know some Chinese people btw and they cherish our freedom. They can’t understand how we suck up to Muslims. My experience is you can live side by side with other civilisations but not with Islam. That’s impossible. When you look around the world to Thailand, the Philippines, India, Myanmar; Nigeria etc it’s always the adherents of the religion of peace(TM) who wreak havoc. But people over here turn a blind eye. Don’t let facts get in their way.
I hope you’re doing fine all the best to you and yours. Take care, my friend
Michael Copeland says
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,”
Ashin Wirathu, Buddhist counter-jihad
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/raymond-ibrahim-buddhist-common-sense-vs-western-nonsense
Wellington says
I taught many young Chinese over the years who asserted the same thing you related, epistemology, to wit, the obsequiousness by the West to Muslims, all the while admiring Western technology and experiments in liberty. These same Chinese students said that China would put up with a little from Muslims but nothing more. They knew and were right, and it made me think that a little more authoritarianism in free countries is almost certainly necessary than exists at present in order to preserve freedom, on the surface paradoxical as this might sound. But then, after all, freedom isn’t free nor should it ever be a suicide pact.
As always, good to hear from you. Take care, my friend.
Voytek Gagalka says
“The leading Sunni Muslim seat of learning…denounced the “sick imagination” behind cartoons”
It is interesting to ask if those imams really saw those drawings or rely on relation from some 3rd party. Is it not true that Mohammedans are prohibited even to put their eye on such thing? So they violated their sharia to watch it or they are simply hypocrites (forbidden for mob but permitted for them)?
Theodoric says
Nobody’s “Prophet” has a right NOT TO BE MOCKED
Even HUMAN “Prophets” have NO right NOT TO BE MOCKED – and the same thing goes for Islam’s Muhammasaurus Rasulex.
https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/no-prophet-has-a-right-not-to-be-mocked/
Huck Folder says
I was thinking more on the lines of: IslaMoraptor bestialis.
Raptor means thief.
Just think, allah’s puppet-master didn’t just rob and steal (when not murdering or fornicating) people and their possessions, he stole from several religions (of which he was obviously IGNORANT) and cobbled together the most fantastic LIE the world has ever heard – the CULT of islam.
BTW, when moslems trot out that “they corrupted their texts” GARBAGE, demand PROOF.
They will give NONE, because they have NONE. There ARE no altered versions, because there are only originals, which are far older than that “Book of Hate™” TRASH.
They can only quote the same lies which they have been fed for 1,400 years, that the incestuousBoH says so.
The BoH is the OUROBOROS.
mortimer says
Message for AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY: “MOHAMMED IS THE EPITOMY OF ‘SICKNESS’.”
Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan said: ‘it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed and believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.’
Lioness says
I read the Quran here and there, and it’s full of pscyhotic hate and misogyny, while some parts are stupid ramblings of incoherence. The whole book is laughable to anyone with a shred of intelligence.
Michael Copeland says
“As long as there is this book, there will be no peace in the world.”
W.E. Gladstone
“I have been unable to discover in it one single idea of value.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Barren …depressing …the rantings of a schizophrenic.”
Sebastian Faulks
mortimer says
Al Azhar wrote: “The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism…”
They have invented their own version of Mohammed not found in the Sira or hadiths.
Linde Barrera says
“The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism…” If this quote is about the prophet Muhammed, he was not merciful nor humanitarian, according to Islam’s holy book. Actions speak much louder than words.
Just A Concerned Citizen says
In the local Arabic language papers here in Bahrain, it’s remarkable how easily things are chalked up to “terrorism.” The art contest in Garland? Terrorism, of course. And they weren’t referring to the botched attack, either (hanging onto that copy for posterity). Denial of an unopened diet soda? Terrorism. Speaking up with regards to the marked difference between the Shia majority versus Sunni minority standard of living in this country? Terrorism, naturally.
No great surprise, the local media is still milking the killings in that North Carolina parking lot for all its worth.
jayellj says
“Leading Muslim body calls airing of Muhammad cartoons “odious terrorist act”…..That’s such a ridiculous statement as to be nothing short of completely laughable. Talk about ‘Life imitaing Art’, this is Reality imitating Comedy, pure Monty Python stuff. If anyone knows ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, they’ll know those sketches where John Cleese & Co. are dressed up in middle-aged working class drag complete with half-smoked cigarette sticking out of the mouth, sitting in a launderette and spouting in falsetto a load of ignorant, pseudo-intellectual drivel based on stuff they’ve half-read in some brain-dead popular woman’s magazine, and where it’s more than obvious that they haven’t the first clue what they’re talking about, let alone the meaning of half the ‘technical’ terms they’re trying to use. Someone should adapt those Monty Python scripts to feature the sort of pseudo-‘learned’ creeps who constitute these ‘leading Muslim bodies’ sitting in some God-forsaken casbah, hooker in mouth and rabbitting on with the sort of inane garbage that we see here. You would even have to invent the material, just lift it word-for-word from their ‘pronouncements’, and you’ll get the laughs.
No Fear says
Do these people have ANY idea how vile their religious text and their religion is?
The Quran is without exception the most vile piece of writing I have ever read.
The Quran is a centre of pestilence.
Michael Copeland says
“Ninety per cent of muslims have absolutely no idea about the Koran”,
I.Q. al Rassooli, Iraqi ex-muslim, Islam scholar.
http://www.al-Rassooli.com
Angemon says
I don’t know who are they talking about, but it’s certainly not muhammad. He had adulterers stones when he could have forgiven them and he had Jews killed for no good reason when he could have let them live. As for being “greater than to be harmed by cartoons, once again, it can’t be muhammad, since he’s apparently so hurt by cartoons (even though he’s dead for almost 1400 years, assuming he even existed) that muslims worldwide whip into a frenzy and riot at the mere idea that someone is speaking ill of him.
Red Bee says
We need more cartoons. http://members.ziggo.nl/iiat/UCantDrawMo.htm
duh_swami says
OK, I won’t draw any cartoons of Mahound, but can I draw Gabriel? Gabriel was a space alien who abducted Mahound, took him to the mothership, and ‘experimented’ on him.
That’s when he ‘supposedly’ went on his night journey to the furthest mosque and met up with dead dignitaries.
It was Gabriel who put all this nonsense in Mahounds head when he looked into Gabby’s big black eyes. No one told him ‘Don’t look in their eye’s, they hypnotize’…He did and it all went down hill from there…I think I can draw a pretty good Gabriel cartoon…
Joe Shmo says
Funny, I regard paedophilia to be sick and twisted and odious. And child-brides and stoning for adultery or homosexuality. Or pretty much everything these evil bastards with beards and beehives on their bonces espouse. Just saying.
sidney penny says
Just for the record: drawing or publishing or displaying cartoons is an innocuous act by any objective standard. Murdering people who do those things — that’s an odious terrorist act.
Ah a good addition to the:
The Sayings of Robert Spencer.
THE PLEASING TO ALLAH SERIES
Drawing or publishing or displaying cartoons prophet mohammed haram:
Murdering people who do those things — pleasing to allah
More from the series:
Having sex outside marriage haram: Stoning people caught in such act pleasing to allah
Looking at bear arms and legs of Muslim women haram: raping non-Muslim women pleasing to allah.
Homosexuality haram:: paedophilia pleasing to allah.
want more ,see:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/iraq-islamic-supremacists-murder-14-in-baghdad-brothel.html#comments