Blasphemy Islam vs. Christianity

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Blasphemy Islam vs. Christianity

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What constitutes blasphemy in Islam and Christianity. Throughout the centuries Islam has promoted death or maiming of those insulting the Islamic ideology.

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BlasphemyIslam vs. Christianity

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Blasphemy is “the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.”

For years Islamists have targeted embassies abroad and individuals at home for “insulting” the Prophet Muhammad.

Now these same people are using international organizations to pressure various countries to criminalize, and globally censor blasphemy and freedom of speech.

1. http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/radical-islam%E2%80%99s-global-reaction-push-blasphemy-laws

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In some jurisdictions blasphemy may be subject to the death penalty if not death than severe punishments.

Qur’an 5:33 “they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land.

In 1988 Salman Rushdie published “The Satanic Verses,” which was considered to be offensive to Islam and the Ayatollah Khomeini, the highest ranking Iranian political and religious authority who pronounced a death sentence on Rushdie and that sentence was supported the majority of Muslims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy

Khan, Dr Muhammad Muhsin (2012-02-23). English Translation of the Qur'an (Kindle Locations 1368-1369). . Kindle Edition.

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Throughout the centuries Islam has promoted death or maiming of those insulting the Islamic ideology.

The Christian position is very different.

Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. “It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects, without controlling content.”

The piece caused a scandal when it was exhibited in 1989, U. S. Senators Al D'Amato and Jesse Helms, were outraged that Serrano received $15,000 for the work, and $5,000 in 1986 from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts yet they did not call for his murder or maiming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

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Serrano received death threats and hate mail from others, and lost grants due to the controversy.

But no one has killed him.

No one has cut off his hands and feet on the opposite sides of his body.

The Christian position on blasphemy is to pray that the blasphemer will repent and recognize that there are no limits to God’s mercy.

There were two men crucified at the same time as Jesus, “Mt. 27:44 The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.”

In the Gospel of Luke 23:38 the criminal repented of his sins and Jesus said to him, ““Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Lk 23:43). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Mt 27:44). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

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Oddly enough on November 30, 2013 the FBI's released hate crime statistics covering 2012 have once again thrown cold water on the tired narrative that American Muslims find themselves under siege from increasingly violent "Islamophobes.“

Islamophobes are defined as people who are prejudiced against Muslims.

Hate crimes perpetrated against Muslims decrease yet hate crimes perpetrated against Christians have increased.

The persecution of blasphemers is tyrannical, imposed by an oppressive government, with a malicious disregard for human rights.

Ayatollah Khomeini believed Muhammad’s marrying of a 6-year old was acceptable behavior but insulting Islam should be punishable by death.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha