"i would not enter Heaven if you were there"

Jim at L'Ombre d'Olivier recently published the Jyllands Posten cartoons on his blog. A few critics have offered these complaints:

You simple-minded morons, what do you think makes YOU different than all the seperatists that try to divide mankind into counter-groups like muslim/christian, rich/poor, beautiful/ugly, men/women, german/jew? How can you put the blame on a religion you don't really know the essence of, or a prophet that respects all religions and everything God created. I can't believe you don't really see that the 'Islamic' terror gives a solid reason to "oil invading" countries and their so called "world police" policies.. You should become REAL journalists by making a thorough research before provocating people against muslims or the religion of Islam, then maybe you can see 'whose terror' it really is and what monsters hide behind your so called "freedom of speech".
LeA | 20.Jan.06 - 10:51 | #

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we muslims believe and respect all of the prophets not like you pinheads who only believe in jesus, we belive in jesus and all of the prophets that god has send,and you come and mock our prophet.prohet muhhamad is above you all you earth parasites i dont give a dman if you call us fanatics but our prophet is the one person who is you can't even come close to mocking him.so keep swimming into your hatred coz that won't change anything only proves to us that you are the lowest of the low,parasites of this earth.
my beloved prophet muhammad | 27.Jan.06 - 0:04 | #

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i want to add something that i am real muslim and i do believe in allah and our profet mouhammed(Peace Be Upon Him) and all other profet including jesus and our profet will not be harmed by your resist thoughts so allah will judge us in judgement day and it is soon but you think it is far until then when we meet and remember this day you well regret for that and at that time there will be no execuse and every body at that time will face what deserves and i am so happy that i am muslim and so happy that your true face has been shown by your own way so hell will be your siutable place and i really pray that you will see hell soon

DR.Hani Alnajm from saudia arabia
Anonymous | 27.Jan.06 - 17:22 | #

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i am one of the muslims in Afghanistan my name is Maiwand Rohani, i just want to ask the person who Has draw such bloody cartons and name the Holy Person in the world, he is the only one for whom the earth and whole world is created, you are created because of him I am created because of him, if you do not respect him God will ask about this drawings one day be sure, but I can only tell you that have we Muslims ever made fun of your religion? God? or what ever you believe, We never made such fun and we will never make, because we respect your religion, SAYS: DO RESPECT TO GAIN RESPECT, if you don’t respect our religion I am sure no one will respect you and your religion and you will see a very bad day in Denmark very soon, I cant do any thing but USAMA BIN LADEN can do any thing you know better and you saw the world trade Centre (11-September- 2001)

if any one is agree with me please contact me on (maiwand.rohani@gmail.com) KHODA HAFIZ

TOIEZO MAN TASHA WA TOZELO MAN TASHA BEYADAKAL KHAIR Maiwand Rohani | 28.Jan.06 - 10:57 | #

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i think there's nothing left to say. i can't imagine how Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) could be described in this way. i don't want to threaten the Danes or attack them. why?? becasue our prophet and our god is far beyond these silly acts of racism and dishumanity, yes dishumanity because even animals wouldn't act this way. i don't wanna go so far in my words coz those artists may have their reasons -i personally don't think so- just like their little and deformed knowledge of islam. about boycotting the danish products, i think every Arabic and Muslim country should do so because it's not about a magazine as some people say, it's about Denmark's prime minister and high court who refused to apologize for the Muslim world hiding behind the lies of democracy and freedom of speech. i just want to ask every one in this world including Denmark's people and prime minister and judical sysytem, if i was in Denmark and had some doubt about the HOLOCAUST and the jews lies and i try to publish this in a news paper, what will happen then? i challenge every one to give me a satisfactory answer, any way we all know what happened to Roger Garodi, so where is the freedom and democracy. come on people just stop fighting Islam which is not affected in result because Islam continues to grow widely through out Europe and the world. such things will only trigger the fire for more terrorist acts and crimes and more separation among relegions.

one last word for the so called "used to be a muslim", i know you're pasting here no more, may be you only read what people are writing about you, personally i blame my fellow Muslims because they are giving you more than you deserve. some thing with no belief, with no goal, with no future in this life, guess what you look like, you must've figured it out. you know the whole universe represents no more than a wing of mosquito to Allah, so scale it your self, what are you???!! definetly "NO THING!", be careful and be ware, you are getting your self in deep trouble. i know you are not a real human but let me assume that you are then take a moment to think of the moment you are laid on your death bed, just tell me what would you feel that moment when you know that Allah and Mohammad whome you offended are waiting for you on the other side? tell me what, you take a different way, hope you can. in the end i agree with Duke that you are a Zionist agent whose been instructed to deform the image of the Islam because even a muslim who converts will still have some dignity, thanks Allah you are not a muslim anymore because i would not enter Heaven if you were there. Maher | 30.Jan.06 - 4:36 | #

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I first posted about this issue here, where I noted that images related to Mohammed have been displayed for centuries, and they haven't generated this kind of outrage:
Let's face it, images of Mohammed have been around for many years, and religious Islam hasn't made much of an issue of it.

However, political Islam, meaning the Wahhabists and Salafists, make a very big issue of it. According to Khaled Abou El Fadl of the UCLA School of Law, this "supremacist puritanism in contemporary Islam is dismissive of all moral norms or ethical values. Its main purpose is not to integrate particular values within Islamic culture, but to empower Islam against its civilizational rival."

The protests against these cartoons are not a demand that we respect a religion. They're a threat of collective punishment, and they're part of the Islamist war against us. We have nothing to apologize for.

Well, that's not true. We should only apologize for the fact that we have not pasted the Jyllands-Posten images on every available media outlet and surface of the free world.

So, here are a few of the dangerous, world-shaking images of Mohammed that have caused such a fuss, and here are some that have caused no fuss at all. Do you see why 'modern' Muslims are inflamed by something that their parents shrugged off?

nondane

danemohammed

nondane

danmohammed

notdane

danemohammed

notdanemohammed

nondane

Some are from Jyllands Posten and some are not. The ones that are not have been in circulation, some for decades, some for centuries.

As usual, the problem isn't with Islam or with free speech, it's with "moderate allies in the war against terrorism", the Saudi Wahhabis, who have been using oil money to spread their puritanical message of hate around the world. Many of the visitors to L'Ombre de l'Oliver were referred by Saudi Arabia. At Winds of Change, Tarek Heggy writes about how Wahhabi Desert Islam has recently affected the Muslim world.

Drinking from Home and Islamaphobic have posted the entire Jyllands Posten collection.

Thomas the Wraith asks artistic bloggers to produce their own images

UPDATE: Zombietime has a bunch of images of Mohammed, from 17th century book frontspieces to South Park TV episodes. Zombie says:

Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslim nations are calling for a boycott of Denmark, Europeans are divided as to whether they should stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech, or cave in to to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear.

While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.

Posted by Mary Madigan on Monday January 30, 2006 at 11:08am
Hello (www):
Here are some pictures.
2.4.2006 9:23pm
Diala Joubran (mail):
For those who say that the Muslims r terrorist remember how catholic slaughtered protestants. U can't judge an entire nation from what u c on the news. If the terrible incidence of 9/11 weren't done by Jews so tell me why 400 Jew didn't come 2 work that day? also u should know the Muslim believes b4 judging if the cartoons r offensive or not, most of the western people rn't strong believers and they don’t care a damn if JESUS was cursed, but do u think that the pope would be happy if he ever sees a cartoon cursing or even making fun of JESUS? Sure not! Then consider that 80 % of Muslims r as strong believers as the pope is.
Christians living in the Arab world r highly respected and never abused, believe it from a Christian girl.
Wasn’t Bush a terrorist when he sent all his troops killing the Iraqi people in the name of freedom and finding nuclear weapons? Where r these nuclear weapons? Did the Iraqi people gain their freedom? Wasn’t bush only eager for controlling the petrol industry?does he care about the american who died there?sure not! bcuz they r mostly african american!! did he care about the people who were flooded out by the missippi river? sure not, mostly poor and again african american!
If the Arabs r responsible for what happened in 9/11, so tell me why 400 Jew didn’t come 2 work that day?
Arabs can’t be anti-semitic bcuz they r semitic themselves, but they hate Zionists yes! Bcuz they invaded Palestine and the Middle East is still suffering from the outcome.
Know some history: that Arabs were great scientists while European believed in witchcraft back in the dark ages. Then they suffered for 400 years under the Turkish (coming from northern middle Asia) occupation who were nothing but bloody murderers, then came the colonist (British+ French) and divided the once civilized united Arabs and robbed their goods.

Be objective, know the other nations history then judge them and believe 10% of what the news says.
2.5.2006 8:02pm
mary (mail) (www):
If the terrible incidence of 9/11 weren't done by Jews so tell me why 400 Jew didn't come 2 work that day?

This is a conspiracy theory with no basis in reality. I don't discuss issues with conspiracy theorists. It's just too tiring.

Otherwise, Arabs accomplished many wonderful things. They were progressing fairly well until the Saudi Wahhabis began to dominate Islam. The Wahhabis are to Islam what the Nazis were to Europe - fascists who will destroy the system unless they're destroyed themselves. The Germans, who cheered for Nazis and encouraged their violence and murder were often called 'Nazis'. If Muslims defend and cheer for these islamic fascists, then they'll be tarred with the same brush.
2.5.2006 9:28pm
mary (mail) (www):


I just found this tonight, it really startled me. I hope everybody else has locked and loaded tonight..set someone on a watch!
2.6.2006 3:04am
mary (mail) (www):
I just found this tonight, it really startled me. I hope everybody else has locked and loaded tonight..set someone on a watch!

Just an FYI - the government of Iran-sponsored propaganda piece above did not come from me. The underpants gnomes strike again.

It's a really boring piece of work, too. I know the Islamists have managed to brainwash a portion of the Muslim world with crap like this, but when I read the stultifying shit they write, I just can't imagine why.
2.6.2006 11:58am
me (www):
yea i am really startled by this...but this doesnt mean that we should hate n be violent towards them. they might deserve it but us muslims are better than that. we know that they hav no idea what they're talking about, since in islam doing violence is OBVIOUSLY a sin. but nobody got that memo, did they? i dunno where they get this stuff from. propaganda? bush? the whole terrorist thing is way out of hand...u can't start making fun of someone's religion just cuz u tink their bad... yea, haa haa, the cartoons were really funni... but if some people do start becoming violent, than they're going to become exactly what those typical european pplz think...whoever has even the least bit of common sense would know that these cartoons are stupid
that's all.just stupid. the ppl who agree with the cartoons are stupid. the editors are stupid. the countries who like this stuff are stupid (yea i kno, 'stupid' is the word that everybody uses) We obviously kno better.
it does hurt our dignity, but like some places we're not going to make it the biggest deal in the world n cry over it . cuz us muslims kno better
2.7.2006 10:23pm
Vishnu (mail):
You Liars and Idiots U destroyed our Temples and constructed Churches and now getting it from christians good! Ur Quran and Hadiat itself teach to kill non beleivers and loot their wealth read it carefully and understand!
2.17.2006 9:50am
Vishnu (mail):
You Liars and Idiots U destroyed our Temples and constructed Churches and now getting it from christians good! Ur Quran and Hadiat itself teach to kill non beleivers and loot their wealth read it carefully and understand!
2.17.2006 9:50am
Jeremy Smith (mail) (www):
when opponents is TV it will play game: http://slashdot.org/ , opponents will table unconditionally
3.29.2006 11:05am
vertmaydayGed (mail) (www):
MESSAGE
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