An ignorant idiot @-ed me, accusing me of the vacuous charge of “Islamophobia”. I’m not going to bother re-blogging it here, partly because it wasn’t a particularly intelligent post (actually, it was an incredibly stupid one), and partly because the charge was paired with strawmanning something I’ve already covered in detail. (Clearly they’ve never read me.)
That is, they triumphantly put me in my place by insisting that Muslims aren’t supposed to worship Muhammad, and proceeded to blather at length about what they’re told, what they’re not supposed to do.
Extracted from a longer, previous post:
Muslims are instructed only to worship Allah, and no human. The quran even says that Muhammad is just a man, a prophet like many before him, and not to be worshipped. (Although in Muhammad’s scam, he declared - through his Allah sock puppet - that he was the last prophet, to prevent anyone superseding his con; it is therefore blasphemous to suggest you’re receiving messages from Allah, as this would make Muhammad wrong.) But although you’ll be told that Muslims don’t worship Muhammad, and that they’re even forbidden to, that’s not quite how things play out in practice.
The shahada is the Islamic creed, recited to declare yourself to be a Muslim:
“I bear witness that there is no deity but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God.”
You’re not a Muslim just by believing in Allah. You also have to profess belief that Muhammad was specially chosen to deliver that message. Imagine not being able to complete your Confirmation as a Catholic without professing Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel as prophets of Yahweh. Or receiving your tax refund but not being able to cash it without acknowledging the postman who brought it.
He’s given special status afforded to no other human, including forbidding visual depictions, and his word is elevated to be on par with that of Allah.
“And whoso disobeyeth Allah and His messenger and transgresseth His limits, He will make him enter Fire, where he will dwell for ever; his will be a shameful doom.” - Quran 4:14
“He who obeys the Messenger, obeys Allah.” - Quran 4:80
Muhammad’s commands are as good as Allah’s.
“Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” - Quran 9:24
Muhammad should be more loved than anything else in your world.
I said to `Abida, “I have some of the hair of the Prophet which I got from Anas or from his family.” `Abida replied. “No doubt if I had a single hair of that it would have been dearer to me than the whole world and whatever is in it.”
A lock of the (dead) Muhammad’s hair is worth more than the whole world.
https://www.al-islam.org/brief-commentary-hadeeth-al-kisaa-jerrmein-abu-shahba/divine-declaration
The Prophet (SA) said: “Allah said: When Adam ate from the forbidden tree, he asked: O Allah! I ask you for the sake of Muhammad to forgive me. Allah said: O Adam! How do you recognize Muhammad when I have not yet created him? Adam said: O Allah! When you created me and blew into me the spirit, I lifted my head and saw written on the ‘Arsh “La ilaaha illallah Muhammadur Rasoolullah”. So, I got to know that you would only join your name with him who is most beloved to you. Allah (SWT) then said: O Adam! You have spoken the truth. Indeed Muhammad is more beloved to me than anything and when you asked me for his sake, I pardoned you. If Muhammad was not in existence, I would not have created you”
“Allah revealed to Prophet ‘Isa ‘ (AS) that: O ‘Isa! Have faith (imaan) in Muhammad and order your Ummah to do the same. If Muhammad was not in existence, I would not have created Adam nor would I have made heaven or hell”.
Muhammad is the reason for the existence of literally everything, and he’s so special even the first human already knew about him.
As The Apostate Prophet explains:
In Christianity and Judaism, God’s name is holy. You should be careful using it.
In Islam, people are careless about Allah’s name, but extremely sensitive when it comes to Muhammad’s name (“PEEEAAACE BE UPON HIM!!!”)
That tells you a lot about whom Muslims actually worship.
Seriously, you can pretty much talk as much shit about Allah as you like, but go anywhere near Muhammad and they’ll be, literally, wanting your head.
Bleating inanely about what Muslims are or are not supposed to do is either missing or avoiding the point. It’s simply reciting Islamic mantras and talking points - “it’s a religion of peeeeeeaaace!1!” “there are no inaccuracy in quran!1!” - as a deflection and distraction from the point. (I’m reasonably confident this person isn’t even a Muslim, so has no idea about any of the above, just simply a White Knight swooping in to regurgitate some boilerplate and score virtue points.)
Muslims are explicitly instructed to kill non-believers. Most don’t, even though entire countries do because it’s baked into their law. Because Muslims pick and choose based on their feelings, and their modern, secular morality, like any other religionists. And the quran is as contradictory as the bible, justifying whatever position the believer prefers to hold.
What actually matters is what they do in the name of Islam, justified by Islam. Because as far as we can tell, as far as the violence, the terrorism perpetrated directly in relation to depicting Muhammad, they effectively do. And they expect everyone else to tiptoe around this one man even more so than Xtians expect us to tiptoe around Jesus.
As this idiot pointed out, Xtians literally worship Jesus. Because he’s (supposedly) the son of god. And yet even mocking and ridiculing Jesus - the literal son of god - doesn’t cause the same array of hate and violence and anger under Xtianity that mocking Muhammad instigates in Islam. So, pointing out Jesus at all really works against this point.
Muhammad is a lesser man than the son of god. So, if he’s not revered to the point of worship, why do multiple countries have laws that make mocking Muhammad a capital offence? No. What we actually see, what happens in practice makes Muhammad extraordinary, even compared to the Xtian view of the son of god.
All this really tells us how unhinged Islam has become, elevating Muhammad in a way their god told them not to.
‘Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) practiced what he preached. He very carefully and meticulously followed the Qur’an, Allah’s Word that was revealed to him. He followed and lived the Qur’an at every moment in every detail of his life. His life was the reflection of Allah’s Words. He became the Qur’an in person, the embodiment of the Qur’an, or one may even say in a metaphorical sense “the Word in flesh.”’
- The West London Islamic Post
tl;dr Muhammad is as the quran itself. Sure, that sounds nothing at all like idolatry.
We’ve seen time and time again the violent, blood-soaked results whenever the subject comes up. Including recently in France, where Islamists hunt down and behead people, and then die themselves over a man they (supposedly) do not worship.
And despite all historical evidence that this is a newly fabricated manipulation “rule.” It would appear then, that bans on pictures of Muhammad, because they afford him privileged, idolatrous status no other human gets, are themselves blasphemous.
And, no, the “No True Scotsman” fallacy ain’t gonna fly…
… and crying “Islamophobia” is just truly pathetic. It signals an inability to discuss ideas rationally, and a need to pretend that criticism of one specific idea is the same as bigotry against actual people, and that one specific idea needs to be given special revered, deferential and protected status afforded no other idea or belief. You know, like Muhammad himself. Nuh-uh. Not gonna fly either.
End-to-end, this person’s post was dishonest or ignorant or both.
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