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==The Additional Images== | ==The Additional Images== | ||
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File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-01.jpg|This image allegedly depicts Muhammad as a pig. | |||
File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-02.jpg|This image allegedly depicts Muhammad having sex with a dog. | |||
File:Fake muhammad cartoon images-03.jpg|This image depicts Muhammad as a pedophile demon. | |||
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===Commentary=== | ===Commentary=== | ||
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The first thing you'll notice about these poor quality images is that they are a lot more offensive than any of the original twelve. | The first thing you'll notice about these poor quality images is that they are a lot more offensive than any of the original twelve. | ||
The first image is allegedly a depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a pig. This is highly offensive to Muslims due to pigs, along with [[urine]], faeces and non-Muslims, being considered "najis" (impure).<ref name="najis">(Asad) "O YOU who have attained to faith! Those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God are nothing but impure: and so they shall not approach the Inviolable House of Worship from this year onwards And should you fear poverty, then [know that] in time God will enrich you out of His bounty, if He so wills: for, verily, God is all-knowing, wise!" - Qur’an 9:28</ref><ref>The following ten things are essentially najis [impure, unclean]: 1. Urine 2. Faeces 3. Semen 4. Dead body 5. Blood 6. Dog 7. Pig 8. Kafir [unbeliever] 9. Alcoholic liquors 10. The sweat of an animal who persistently eats najasat - [http://web.archive.org/web/20100119121959/http://www.sistani.org/local.php?modules=nav&nid=2&bid=59&pid=2857 <!-- http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20100119121959%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sistani.org%2Flocal.php%3Fmodules%3Dnav%26nid%3D2%26bid%3D59%26pid%3D2857&date=2012-01-25 -->Islamic Laws : Najis things » Introduction] - Al-Sistani.org, Internet Archive capture dated January 19, 2010</ref><ref name="najis2">“...And, that they [the dhimmis] should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths. ...It is also incumbent upon Muslims that they should not accept from them victuals with which they had come into contact, such as distillates, which cannot be purified. If something can be purified, such as clothes, if they are dry, they can be accepted, they are clean. But if they [the dhimmis] had come into contact with those clothes in moisture they should be rinsed with water after being obtained. ...It would also be better if the ruler of the Muslims would establish that all infidels could not move out of their homes on days when it rains or snows because they would make Muslims impure...” - Muhammad Baqir Majlesi (1616 – 1698 AD) - Lightning Bolts Against the Jews</ref> It was only discovered later that it was not Danish, nor was it a cartoon at all, but a fax copy of a photo, and this photo was in fact not a depiction of the Islamic prophet, but of Jacques Barrot, a pig squealing contestant at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.<ref>[http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54 Danish Imams Busted] - Neander News, </ref> The original image can be viewed [ | The first image is allegedly a depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a pig. This is highly offensive to Muslims due to pigs, along with [[urine]], faeces and non-Muslims, being considered "najis" (impure).<ref name="najis">(Asad) "O YOU who have attained to faith! Those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God are nothing but impure: and so they shall not approach the Inviolable House of Worship from this year onwards And should you fear poverty, then [know that] in time God will enrich you out of His bounty, if He so wills: for, verily, God is all-knowing, wise!" - Qur’an 9:28</ref><ref>The following ten things are essentially najis [impure, unclean]: 1. Urine 2. Faeces 3. Semen 4. Dead body 5. Blood 6. Dog 7. Pig 8. Kafir [unbeliever] 9. Alcoholic liquors 10. The sweat of an animal who persistently eats najasat - [http://web.archive.org/web/20100119121959/http://www.sistani.org/local.php?modules=nav&nid=2&bid=59&pid=2857 <!-- http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20100119121959%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sistani.org%2Flocal.php%3Fmodules%3Dnav%26nid%3D2%26bid%3D59%26pid%3D2857&date=2012-01-25 -->Islamic Laws : Najis things » Introduction] - Al-Sistani.org, Internet Archive capture dated January 19, 2010</ref><ref name="najis2">“...And, that they [the dhimmis] should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths. ...It is also incumbent upon Muslims that they should not accept from them victuals with which they had come into contact, such as distillates, which cannot be purified. If something can be purified, such as clothes, if they are dry, they can be accepted, they are clean. But if they [the dhimmis] had come into contact with those clothes in moisture they should be rinsed with water after being obtained. ...It would also be better if the ruler of the Muslims would establish that all infidels could not move out of their homes on days when it rains or snows because they would make Muslims impure...” - Muhammad Baqir Majlesi (1616 – 1698 AD) - Lightning Bolts Against the Jews</ref> It was only discovered later that it was not Danish, nor was it a cartoon at all, but a fax copy of a photo, and this photo was in fact not a depiction of the Islamic prophet, but of Jacques Barrot, a pig squealing contestant at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.<ref>[http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54 Danish Imams Busted] - Neander News, </ref> The original image can be viewed [[:File:Pigsquealcontest.jpg|here]]. | ||
The second image allegedly depicts Muhammad having sex with a dog. Again, dogs are considered najis,<ref name="najis"></ref><ref name="najis2"></ref> and although admittedly Muhammad had [[Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Muhammad#Muhammad_the_Rapist|raped women]] and committed [[Aisha Age of Consummation|pedophila]], there is no hadith that suggest he partook in [[Islam and Bestiality|bestiality]]. | The second image allegedly depicts Muhammad having sex with a dog. Again, dogs are considered najis,<ref name="najis"></ref><ref name="najis2"></ref> and although admittedly Muhammad had [[Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Muhammad#Muhammad_the_Rapist|raped women]] and committed [[Aisha Age of Consummation|pedophila]], there is no hadith that suggest he partook in [[Islam and Bestiality|bestiality]]. | ||