[ExI] Why was nobody ever murdered because of this cartoon?

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 19:18:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam is pretty interesting.
> E.g.:
>
> "*Aniconism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism> in Islam* is a
> proscription in Islam <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam> against the
> creation of images of sentient living beings."
>
> "The Quran <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran>, the Islamic holy book
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_holy_books>, does not explicitly
> prohibit the depiction of human figures; it merely condemns idolatry
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry>."
>
> "Judaism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism>, which is related to
> Islam as a monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham, Moses
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses> (Mūsa
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_in_Islam>), and other prophets, has
> a comparable prohibition
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry_in_Judaism> which takes the form
> of a prohibition on any idol <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_image>
> or on any artistic representation of God
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Judaism>."
>

And yet, if you create something that the current day watered down version
of Judaism would actually still consider an idol, STILL nobody would die.

BTW, everyone drives Mercedes Benzes.

-Kelly
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