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India-Pakistan
Prophet's pic in book raises Muslim ire
2006-06-20
Weeks after the Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammed receded from newspaper headlines, the Muslim quarter of Hyderabad has been set aflutter with the discovery of a Class IV text-book that bears a sketch of the founder of Islam.

The sketch, ironically illustrating a parable of the Prophet's kindness and tolerance for even his opponents, appears in a book titled Moral Values, which is used by many primary schools in the Old City to teach moral science, a compulsory subject for Class IV students under the state syllabus.

Acknowledging that the tone of the chapter is not injurious to Islam, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) said the episode breaches an important precept of Islam, that the Prophet never be depicted pictorially.

The party demanded that the government immediately withdraw the book from all schools and arrest the writer of the lesson and the publisher of the book. The lesson narrates a parable in which Prophet Mohammed is shown as someone who showered kindness even on His rivals.

MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi sees in this episode a conspiracy to hurt Muslims. "An international agency has been working to provoke and disturb Muslims. After the caricature of the Prophet in Danish newspapers rocked the entire world, how come the writer and publisher of this book did not realise the implications?

We want the publisher and the author arrested immediately and an apology tendered to Muslims," Owaisi demanded. After the issue became public, Arkbird Publications withdrew the books, not just in Hyderabad, but also from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu where they had been desptached.

Its director for AP, K B Prasad said, "Our intention was not to hurt but to tell a good story to children. All the remaining books will be destroyed.''
Posted by:ryuge

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and of course there are more
Posted by: pihkalbadger   2006-06-20 08:52  

#8  Not long until the only good muslim is...
Stupid Stupid Stupid.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-20 13:42  

#7  Damn! I missed it! Head'n over to the sink-trap to see if'n it was preserved there...
Posted by: Flert Fleanter4726   2006-06-20 09:07  

#6  Jeebus Pink. That is not going to go well over corporate firewalls.
Posted by: ed   2006-06-20 09:01  

#5  
Links, please, not these pix on a work day. And do label the link NSFW. I thank you, and so does my boss.
Posted by: pihkalbadger   2006-06-20 08:52  

#4  I say that we get a good photo of someone like Queen Latifah in male drag and slap a label of Mohammed on it.

Think that would twist their turbans?

Or, maybe someone like Mikey Moore....
These jackasses don't have a frippin' clue what their paedophile prophet looked like anyway.

Hell, put the name Mo-ham-head on a rock or a pig's ass.
Posted by: AlanC   2006-06-20 08:39  

#3  Gougin out sa eyez. Yessah, now dat be a painin' da folks who be a watchin'. Imr thinkin'. Pain eb good for da soul, y 'knowz.
Posted by: Slamp Glomoger7842   2006-06-20 08:20  

#2  Obviously, the only possible remedy is to gouge out the eyes of all who saw it. Allan Ahkbar!
Posted by: ed   2006-06-20 07:30  

#1  "Prophet's pic in book raises Muslim ire"

Well, hellfire boy, what doesn't, eh? I be in the Who Fuckin' Cares Column myself. Nail they asses to the nearest barn-door. Do it hard and painful like. Make it smart a bunch, then see if'n they be so smart-assey and such. I'm thinkin you can con-trol these boyos with pain. Real, seerious-like pain.
Posted by: Flolush Angaiger7007   2006-06-20 07:00  

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