Thursday, February 09, 2006
Does Islam really forbid the depiction of Muhammed?
The answer is, I don't know -- I'm not an expert on Islamic law and there have been various opinions expressed on this over the past week in the media. However, this blog has collected a series of images of Muhammed from the past few centuries, including many drawn by Muslims themselves. Whatever Islamic law says on the subject, drawing Mohammed has clearly not been a taboo, certainly not a reason for violence. Which either means that a great number of Muslims are ignorant about their own history and faith (as very well may be and as is not unusual in other religions, including our own, as well), or that there's a lot more to the stoking of this story than has been generally acknowledged -- or both.
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While this furnace of hostility and religious intolerance is brewing, it is nice to find a new literary oasis in the form of a book--dialogue for Jews, Muslims and Christians aptly named The Golden Fleece Found by Basil Hill. This book shows that the paths of ALL THE SEEDS OF ABRAHAM were prophesied. First, he lists the prophecies and then, like rope strands, he overlays their historic journies against an ancient schematic embedded in blueprint of Solomon's Temple.
I would much prefer to see the three main flocks following the author's suggestion of accepting his literary olive branch. All the differences are according to prophecy. The roots are spiritual and the solutions are also.
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