nbcrusader said:What is a cleric doing with $1 Million? Does he have his own television show?
verte76 said:
It's been said that Islam is a merchant-friendly culture. I never thought it could go this far.
linkA Pakistani cleric today offered 1.5m rupees (£9,600) and a car as a reward to anyone who killed the cartoonist who drew images of the prophet Muhammad.
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, a prayer leader at the Mohabat Khan mosque in Peshawar, made the announcement to a 1,000-strong crowd outside the mosque after Friday prayers.
"This is a unanimous decision by all imams that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed, and whoever will take this insulting man to his end will get this prize," he said
Taken from the BBC website.A minister in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Haji Yaqub, announces an $11m (£6.3m) reward for anyone who beheads the cartoonist who drew the images.
nbcrusader said:What is a cleric doing with $1 Million? Does he have his own television show?
verte76 said:Mohammed did want to unify the Arab world. When he was born there was no central authority in Arabia. The basic unit of society was the tribe. To this day, the basic unit of the Arabian society is the tribe. Remember, the modern countries were designated by European powers. Mohammed unified all of Arabia, then after he died they grabbed Syria and the Persian Empire, then northern Africa, then there was a split and pretty soon you had three rival claimants to the caliphate (the leadership of the Islamic world) and two branches of Islam, the Sunni and the Shi'ites.
nbcrusader said:So, when Muslims talk about protecting "their land" it is an undefined region roughly surrounding Mecca and Jerusalem and places in between?
Reuters, Feb. 18, 2006
One of the cartoonists, asking for anonymity, said this has not been the first threat. "The drawing I made was meant as a practical joke aimed at the paper and yet I have been dragged into this absurd situation," the cartoonist told Reuters. "I didn't think anyone outside the newspaper's readers would see the cartoon and now a billion people have. It's a surreal situation."
verte76 said:
It's always been sort of vague. The Ottoman Turks didn't impose uniformity and allowed Jewish and Christian worship in their lands.
anitram said:
Sure they did.
They arrived in the Balkans, and gave you a choice - convert or have your head chopped off. Do you have any idea how many people there died at the hands of the Ottomans?
For example, prior to the arrival of the Ottomans, Bosnia was a country populated by ethnic Serbs and Croats, both of whom are Christian (Orthodox and Catholic, respectively). The Turks invaded, and pillaged the area, forcibly converting people, murdering thousands. This is how you got a Muslim population in what is Bosnia today. It was most certainly NOT done by peaceful means and the Turks had absolutely no respect for Christian worship.
The phenomenon of forcible conversion, including coercive en masse conversions, persisted throughout the 16th century, as discussed by Constantelos in his analysis of neomartyrdom in the Ottoman Empire:
…mass forced conversions were recorded during the caliphates of Selim I (1512-1520),…Selim II (1566-1574), and Murat III (1574-1595). On the occasion of some anniversary, such as the capture of a city, or a national holiday, many rayahs were forced to apostacize. On the day of the circumcision of Mohammed III great numbers of Christians (Albanians, Greeks, Slavs) were forced to convert to Islam.
Constantelos concludes:
The story of the neomartyrs indicates that there was no liberty of conscience in the Ottoman Empire and that religious persecution was never absent from the state. Justice was subject to the passions of judges as well as of the crowds, and it was applied with a double standard, lenient for Muslims and harsh for Christians and others. The view that the Ottoman Turks pursued a policy of religious toleration in order to promote a fusion of the Turks with the conquered populations is not sustained by the facts.
No it is any and all land that is or has been under Islamic rule: al Andalus, Sicily and every piece of land taken up by Israel.nbcrusader said:So, when Muslims talk about protecting "their land" it is an undefined region roughly surrounding Mecca and Jerusalem and places in between?