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Tintin and Muhammad
Sacrilege!
In 2006, a worldwide protest was created by the publication of a series of cartoons of Muhammad appeared in Danish newspapers. According to the protestors, such images were sacrilege and affront to muslims everywhere. So strong were the Islamist feelings that Danish flags were burnt, embassies attacked and over 100 people died in violent confrontations with the police.
Photo (c) sgrah, CC Some Rights Reserved
The Truth
The real story is much more complicated than that.
The protests were the result of a concerted effort to generate outrage that took several months to bear fruit. This included the creation of new cartoons by the agitators that were far more offensive than the original images. The irony of muslims deliberately creating offensive images to incite muslims over offensive images appears to be lost on the extreme elements of the muslim world.
The whole concept of banning images of Muhammad is itself relatively new and limited only to certain parts of the muslim faith. The image below show a young Muhammad meeting the monk Bahira. The image dates from around 1315 AD.
Tintin Meets Muhammad
In the May 17, 1977 edition of the Nouveau Tintin, the French language Tintin magazine ran an piece on the life of Muhammad. This sort of historical article was common in the Tintin magazine because Herge had very strong ideas about educating and informing the children who read his publication.
The article covered all of Muhammad’s life and he was repeatedly shown. His early life had simple illustrations but his later life is depicted as a full comic strip. In the sample page below, Muhammad is in the red turban, being wounded by an arrow.
Image (c) Nouveau Tintin magazine
For more on this, visit the Mohammed Image Archive
Uh.
I hate protests like that. Just look at that sign. “We condemn freedom of speech that hurts other people feelings.”
Doesn’t that kind of defeat the point of freedom of speech?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for politeness and I’m certainly not anti-religion (I’m a Christian myself!)
I get offended every time someone blasphemes. I don’t call down legal action on that person, or hold a protest against that person. It’s their choice.
However, the UK is rapidly going down that route. The Government is trying to pass a bill about ‘gay hatred’, saying that anyone who refuses service to a gay person, e.g. refusing to print leaflets for a gay rally, on the basis if them being gay, can be fined.
Errrrr, thought police or what?
What the sign should say is:
“We condemn people who don’t like our views.”
/end political comment.
Anyways, I didn’t know Tintin magazine was like that. Good to hear they did some ‘educational’ stuff as well. How about “I can count with Tintin!”
only kidding.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:30 am@Pre-ads
That sign said it all for me as well.
The ‘Gay Hatred’ clause was part of the Coroner’s bill and has been dropped. It was not related to direct discrimination such as refusing service to gay people. That was covered by more general discrimination legislation.
The recently defeated clause was about inciting hated against gay people. The sort of behaviour extreme religious groups promote. I think the idea of the clause was good but implementing it without curtailing free speech is extremely difficult.
Chris
November 24th, 2009 at 11:41 amNot to turn this into a political debate, but actually, the government has no right to interfere with people’s views. That is what is known as dictatorship. If someone hates gay people, so what? The gay person might be offended, but such is freedom of speech. The government has no business in changing that person’s mind. However the offended party has the right to attempt to change the offender’s view, but not the right to make their view illegal.
Pe-ads
November 25th, 2009 at 7:08 pmregarding the illustration above of “young muhammad” meeting a monk… Muhammad was known as a prophet at the age of 40, which is when he began on his mission to propogate the religion; im not sure if that artwork makes any sense, unless 40 means young…
December 17th, 2009 at 9:17 am@Daaku – I think the illustration is of Muhammad as a young man, before becoming a prophet, meeting a monk.
Chris
December 17th, 2009 at 10:15 am