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Shiat Chat site and some views on Paris (Original Post) ChazII Jan 2015 OP
good answer lunasun Jan 2015 #1
From the thread - A Few thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo Attack ChazII Jan 2015 #2

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. good answer
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 03:40 PM
Jan 2015

oker, on 08 Jan 2015 - 2:15 PM, said:

According to Jafari fiqh anyone who mocks the Holy Prophet is to be killed.



That is a sentence that must be handed down by an Islamic court in an Islamic regime. In France, they have to follow the laws of France. If those laws are oppressive to Muslims, the Muslims can either use acceptable channels to try to change the laws, or they can migrate to a place that doesn't have oppressive laws.

ChazII

(6,198 posts)
2. From the thread - A Few thoughts on the Charlie Hebdo Attack
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 03:55 PM
Jan 2015
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235027611-a-few-thoughts-on-the-charlie-hebdo-attack/


There exist plenty of methods to influence public discourse and people are less eager to slander the icons that are beloved by those whom they respect.

In the end, these things wouldn't happen in the first place if Muslims behaved like good Muslims. Even if what some people suggest is true, that the attack itself is all one big CIA or MI plot, nobody would buy the official story if the majority of people had good reason to believe Muslims were good people.

Until we are able to do that, we can't point out the hypocrisy of a couple journalists or TV personalities and think our job is done, because there always be an excuse as long as there's such a separation of church and state and the belief that the history of a man in Arabia who claimed to be a prophet and founded what many Westerners to believe to be a "death cult" that people don't think mocking the Prophet or any prophet is a big deal. And it doesn't help that much to point out issues on the limits of free speech when it comes to things seen as a race issue, because these are seen as separate from religion. To mock the Prophet Muhammad is only to insult a bunch of people's religious creed that they could choose not to follow and so not be offended if they wished at anytime, when it comes to racial caricatures or satire, this deals with something that most people feel is more "real" or of immediate concern.

When it comes to religion, the West has no real double standard, since Jesus is mocked openly in Western society and media. So, it is in fact, Muslims I'd say who often have the double standards here because I rarely seen any Muslims raging out over these evil depictions of our other prophets or other religion's holies. But suddenly when it is Muhammad , everybody and their uncle has an opinion and wants to be the most pious vanguard for religion.

Edited by Saintly_Jinn23, 08 January 2015 - 09:08 PM.
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Shia Chat is one of the sites where I am a lurker. They do allow all faiths and view points.
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