WillemHow to make drawings with the Prophet Muhammad
Stay-out-of-trouble tips for the ignorant Cartoonist...
It's not so difficult to avoid making images of Muhammad and still have clear and effective visual communication.
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This is not a cartoon but an illustration from a Dutch-Islamic children's book about the life of the Prophet. It's a good example of how to depict Muhammad if you must make a drawing. Just use a calligraphic symbol.
The actual scene here depicts the prophet being ridiculed by the non-believing Quraish people. According to the story, they were throwing goat dung at him when he was praying and laughing at him.I could not find any reference to the artist that made the illustrations in this book (title: Ik ben een gelukkige druif). if you know who made the drawings, please contact us so we can give her/him credit)
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What we learn from the life of the Prophet is that he always turned the other cheek when he was hit or ridiculed by non believers. He typically prayed for those who attacked him. Now where have we read that before?
Anyway, I guess we just have to teach the Danish population the Muhammad sign and then Jyllands Posten can find a reasonable way out of all these awful misunderstandings.
I'm not only joking here. I think it would be a lot easier to deal with other people's cartoons about one's holy figures if one would at least feel respected by them.
When I'm reading stories about the life of the prophet Muhammad to my son Goos (a non baptised white kid attending a catholic school), it always occurs to me how incredibly close islamic and christian religions are. The morals are very similar. The misunderstandings too.
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If you want to depict the Prophet Muhammed in a cartoon, you can use this symbol.
It's a calligraphic sign, not the normal way any Muhammad would write his name in arabic. The second m is somehow used to connect the h/g with the d. Compare it to the way you would sign quickly with your name. The sign is immediately recognised as such by arabic and islamic people. Normally Muhammad would be written in a linear fashion with 4 connected glyphs.
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I feel like u have made a very valid point... i mean muslims dont even like drawing Jesus (Isa) or Mary (Maryam) (peace be upon them) or any1 else incase we offend christians but also because its wrong to guess their physical features as looks and race do not matter but what actually matters is ones attitude and personality. 1 reason why muslims took such offense was due to the fact that its like almost stereotyping muslims through Mohammed (pbuh) to have a hat made from a bomb. Simply put if heknew the actions of these so-called muslims today he would turn in his grave. I dont hate any1 except those who are hypocrites... in my opinion those who say the are devouted to their religion like islam should take a closer look. Im a muslim and I know it is a sin to commit suicide just like catholics believe.... now these terrorists they cant convince any REAL muslim that taking your own life is something rewarding let alone killing of a few innocent pplz along the way. It is rather refreshing though for a non muslim to have a balanced view on why muslims could be offended. Thankyou
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MUHAMMAD peace and blessings be upon him , we love him and jesus and all the rest of the prophets , may ALLAH all mighty guide you to the truth , cuz hate and abusing wont solve a thing but honesty and allot more is needed to achieve the truth , ask ALLAH the creator of all the all mighty to guide you and believe me .. . ... .. . . he will !