Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Is Mohammed God? Or Prophet?






Res Ipsa Loquitor

 
For no apparent reason I awoke trying to reason on Mahometanism; specifically this.  Mahometanist's  reaction to portrayal of Muhammad's image, like the Danish  cartoonist who had a jihad called against him.  Here's the quandary. 

"You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God ... First Commandment

Although that prohibition against Muhammad imagery is a recent one, appearing nowhere in the Koran, it's basis is God's instruction to Moses about graven images in the First Commandment.  But wait!  Mohammed is the "Prophet Mohammed," right.  It seems to me, then,  that by applying the graven image  proscription to him, Muslims are elevating him to God status.  Right?  And when Muslims prostrate themselves to say daily prayers, where do they face?  Not toward the heavens, or Mount Sinai (where the commandments were handed down, but facing Mecca—Muhammed's birthplace.  That is Jihad fodder.


"Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something--if it ain't one thing, it's another."

All this illustrates my fear about the spread of Muslim culture in our country.  Anybody can be an Imam.  In the Middle East he's often the guy in town who can read the Koran, or pretend that he can.  I alluded to the Danish cartoon jihad, which was sparked my an Imam Ahmed Akkari.  People died.

During the cartoon crisis Ahmed Akkari acted as a preacher and spokesman for the Islamic Society, inciting hatred and struggle against Denmark and freedom of expression, but today he has basically changed attitude and broken with his former comrades.  [Islam versus Europe]  Res Ipsa Loquitor
  
"Never mind."

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