What constitutes blasphemy in Islam and Christianity. Throughout the centuries Islam has promoted death or maiming of those insulting the Islamic ideology.
2. Blasphemy is “the act or offense of
speaking sacrilegiously about God or
sacred things; profane talk.”
Now these same people are using
international organizations to pressure
various countries to criminalize, and
globally censor blasphemy and freedom
of speech.
For years Islamists have targeted
embassies abroad and individuals at
home for “insulting” the Prophet
Muhammad.
1. http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/radical-islam%E2%80%99s-global-reaction-push-blasphemy-laws
3. In some jurisdictions blasphemy may be
subject to the death penalty if not death
than severe punishments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy
Qur’an 5:33 “they shall be killed or
crucified or their hands and their feet
be cut off on the opposite sides, or be
exiled from the land.
Khan, Dr Muhammad Muhsin (2012-02-23). English Translation of the Qur'an (Kindle Locations 13681369). . Kindle Edition.
In 1988 Salman Rushdie published “The
Satanic Verses,” which was considered to
be offensive to Islam and the Ayatollah
Khomeini, the highest ranking Iranian
political and religious authority who
pronounced a death sentence on Rushdie
and that sentence was supported the
majority of Muslims.
4. Throughout the centuries Islam has
promoted death or maiming of those
insulting the Islamic ideology.
The Christian position is very different.
Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by the
American artist and photographer
Andres Serrano. “It depicts a small
plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of
the artist's urine. The piece was a
winner of the Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art's "Awards in the
Visual Arts" competition, which was
sponsored in part by the National
Endowment for the Arts, a United States
Government agency that offers support
and funding for artistic projects, without
controlling content.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
The piece caused a scandal when it was
exhibited in 1989, U. S. Senators Al
D'Amato and Jesse Helms, were
outraged that Serrano received $15,000
for the work, and $5,000 in 1986 from
the taxpayer-funded National
Endowment for the Arts yet they did
not call for his murder or maiming.
5. Serrano received death threats and hate The Christian position on blasphemy is
mail from others, and lost grants due to to pray that the blasphemer will repent
and recognize that there are no limits
the controversy.
to God’s mercy.
There were two men crucified at the
same time as Jesus, “Mt. 27:44 The
robbers who had been crucified with
Him were also insulting Him with the
same words.”
New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Mt 27:44). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
But no one has killed him.
No one has cut off his hands and feet on
the opposite sides of his body.
In the Gospel of Luke 23:38 the criminal
repented of his sins and Jesus said to
him, ““Truly I say to you, today you shall
be with Me in Paradise.”
New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Lk 23:43). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
6. Oddly enough on November 30, 2013
the FBI's released hate crime statistics
covering 2012 have once again thrown
cold water on the tired narrative that
American Muslims find themselves
under siege from increasingly violent
"Islamophobes.“
The persecution of blasphemers is
tyrannical, imposed by an oppressive
government, with a malicious disregard
for human rights.
Islamophobes are defined as people
who are prejudiced against Muslims.
Hate crimes perpetrated against
Muslims decrease yet hate crimes
perpetrated against Christians have
increased.
Ayatollah Khomeini believed
Muhammad’s marrying of a 6-year old
was acceptable behavior but insulting
Islam should be punishable by death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha
