• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Don’t they have a rule against idolizing people? How do they not consider their treatment of Muhammad as idolizing him?

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      It’s a quite literal rule - idols and idolatry are things that have actual meaning in Abrahamic religions, and in the pagan religions that Islam supplanted at Mecca. See also the icons and iconoclastic conflict in the neighbouring Orthodox Christian tradition.

      “Wow he’s perfect” isn’t idolatry in the literal sense of an actual physical idol object mean to be physical manifestation of, or place of residence of, a deity.

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        1 year ago

        Is that why they ban all pictures/depictions of Muhammad? To avoid stepping over that line of idolizing him?