[lit-ideas] Re: cartoons of the prophet of Islam
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 05:05:29 -0800 (PST)
In the wonderful Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, she
recalls her childhood in a leftist secular Iranian
family and her religious quests. The one image I am
thinking of is where she is laying in bed and on the
right side is Karl Marx and on the left either god or
Mohammed, both older men with white beards. "They do
look lot a like," she thinks to herself.
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- Austin Meredith <Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Why does the Media persistently make the same claim
> (e.g. BBC says, "Any
> >images of the Prophet are banned under Islamic
> tradition.", CNN says
> >essentially
> >the same thing, etc.), when it simply does not seem
> to be accurate
>
> Perhaps this will help. There are vast differences
> between religious
> traditions within Islam, such as Sunni Islam versus
> Shia Islam. In the more
> strict traditions, any image of any living thing is
> forbidden, because only
> God creates life. Thus, on a Sunni carpet one would
> not see the sorts of
> images of flowers and deer and such, that would be
> woven into a Shia
> carpet. Instead one would see, woven into the
> carpet, mere geometric
> shapes, and calligraphy. Even the Shia, however,
> balk at representations of
> the prophet of Islam himself. I have seen, for
> instance, comic books in
> Iran having to do with the story of Ali, in which
> the faces of various
> persons appear -- but the face of Ali is represented
> under his turban by an
> utterly blank space in the cartoon. The figure is
> identified by the absence
> of a representation, and by his sword with its
> unique double point. It
> would have been considered disrespectful to have
> attempted an image of the
> face of Ali, because he was so close to Mohammad.
>
> Is this so strange? For many years, in the USA, it
> has been tacitly
> understood by the news media that one does not
> publish a photo of a
> President who is forking a bite of food into his
> mouth. This is considered
> a courtesy toward one to whom one owes respect.
>
>
>
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