Pakistan: Regime censors Twitter over cartoon contest
We read:
"The Pakistani government blocked access to the social networking service Twitter on Sunday, after publicly holding Twitter responsible for promoting a blasphemous cartoon contest taking place on Facebook, officials said. ...
'The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad,' said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication’s Authority, was quoted as saying. He was also quoted as saying that Facebook had agreed to allay the concerns of the Pakistani government."
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One of the possible reasons why it is "haram" to make images of Mohammad is that he never existed. In the case of Christ we have accounts of his life by four people who actually knew him but the earliest accounts of Mohammad's life date from around 200 years after he was supposed to have lived.
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Bible scholars do not consider that the names given to the four gospels were authored by Jesus' recorded followers with those particular names (viz. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John), especially as they are not written as though they were eye-witness accounts, and three of them rely heavily on "Mark", which was itself added to by another author, as even the King James Bible translators recognized.
I'm curious who the four people who knew Jesus were. It was my understanding that there are no contemporay accounts of Jesus.
I will be happy to be corrected if I am wrong.
Well, if blacks can invent their own "religious holiday", (kwanza) why can't Muslims invent their own god? And, since both are totally irrelevant, who cares.
Yes, there are no contemporaneous accounts of the Jesus figure in the Bible in the period he is said to have lived. None at all that are surviving. The earliest are some 70-100 years later, but they are not eye-witness accounts but may have been based on other non-surviving records or oral memories.
However, Jesus' trial by the Jewish and Roman authorities ought to have been recorded somewhere else, and/or his public disturbances, or indeed his "many spectacular" miracles.
It naturally throws some doubt on the historical veracity of Jesus the Christ, but maybe he was some other (or a composite of the many itinerant,charismatic jewish rabbis with messianic claims during that period).
Amazing that so many credulous people would base their whole world view (and concepts of "immortal salvation", etc.) on such a theological "house built on sand", to ironically ref the Bible!
Sorry to burst your bubble of denial, but there is ample evidence that the new testament accounts of Jesus are correct and were made by eye witnesses. One obvious proof is that the accounts never mention the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, a mere 37 years after the crucifixion. Jerusalem was the center of Jewish worship. The only logical reason it is not mentioned is because it had not happened yet.
"The only logical reason it is not mentioned is because it had not happened yet."
This is known as pretzel logic.
This is also known as being drunk while trying to type and engage thoughts!
What was KING HERODS following and relgion?
King Herod was a Jew but recognized by the Roman authorities as a client monarch of the Jewish people. Does that answer your question?
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