The idea someone was fired for sacrilege is insane

Question for the KTT2 Muslim residents. Why is it Haram to depict the Prophet but it is okay to depict his grandson Hussein looking fruity with eye liner and rosey blushed cheeks?

this a gigachad riff right? right???

Nah man it aint a joke this poster is up on the walls in Iran everywhere during Ashura lmao.

I was born and raised Muslim but anyone with an academic background can realize that there's a major difference between a class on the academic historicity of religion and the academic theology. This goes for all religions.

It's the equivalent of Christians turning up to a "History of Jesus and How He May Have Lived" and raging that the class is bullshit and anti-religious, or a class looking at the evolution of Judaism from polytheistic Semitic religions and Jewish folks asking for the teacher to be fired. The class is not for you. It's not trying to offend you. It's taking an academic perspective on a historical basis. This is actual Islamic art history-- it's not a Charlie Hebdo comic panel. It's Islamic art made by actual Muslims.

We can simultaneously understand that there is a strong bias against Islam in the Judeo-Christian West and its institutions, but I think this is ridiculous and goes too far.

Just my opinion though.

amazing

It’s not even a GOOD a***ogy let alone a perfect one

Here is one of the Imam holding hand with Qasem Soleimani ❤️

I do think showing an image by a Muslim artist would be different from showing an ‘orientalist’ depiction by a western artist, like it could be considered more disrespectful depending on the artist’s relationship to the material.

But it’s true lynching is a different sort of seriousness compared to this. The above is how I tried to understand their comparison

this man is so caught up in his religious hating ass r/atheists arc because of his parents lmao

this

Is

That bad?

considering there was enough warning given and if you aren't Muslim you aren't beholden to their rules/norms/expectations I'd say you really have to stretch to justify this

Wait I mean like is showing the painting bad

I'm like super confused

It’s disallowed to depict the face of holy figures in Islam

It’s really disallowed to show anyone’s face in depictions but that’s kinda ridiculous and people ignore it

I don't wanna speak like offensively

But as a person who only grew up around Christian people pretty much thsts wild to me

They throw Jesus' face on everything t shirts candles books paintings pretty sure there has even been some video games

Well that’s exactly why peoples don’t do it

Softens the immaterial level of holiness that they emplace

And its just the face? Like they can be painted but only with their back turned?

Or like are there just no paintings or any illustration of them allowed

There are tons of illustrations with his body but no face

But never iconography. It’s usually depictions of events and significant parts of scripture

Interesting

I never knew anything like that. I just assumed it was fine and there was tons of art of them (like portraits) I haven't seen

But this makes me wanna ask like

If doing that is a big no like unanimously agreed upon by people of the religion to be bad

Who are the people who even made these paintings the professor showed? like are thete just massive jerk painters wasting their time painting these religious figures just to make people mad?

Shias do the same as you described but for Muhammad, Fatima and the Hidden Imam they put a light bulb in for the face. The other 11 Imams faces are okay to draw as long as enough eye liner is applied.

Sunnis in general arent as into paintings as shias

I don't understand much of what you just said to me