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If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
A simple question. I mean all the time there is this hub-bub about Muslims getting pissy cause so and so tried to put Muhammed in something, or drew Muhammad and put it on Facebook, but one question:
If no one is allowed to portray Muhammad, how the heck do even Muslims know what he looks like?
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Re: If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
There are some early portrayals of him, I believe, and various "anonymous" portrayals of him by Muslims.
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I think he had a birth defect that makes his head look like it's made of fire or something. Well that's what I remember from a book on religion I had when I was a kid.
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I would say he was a super saiyan, the savior of earth
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Re: If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
before asking this question,
how are we supposed to know what muhammad looks like
we can deduce what kind of clothes he would be wearing, but what his face looked like
Last edited by Yosemite; June 07, 2010 at 07:49 PM.
Re: If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
Well we can't really know what Jesus' face looked like either, yet there are millions depictions of him.
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Put a beard and a turban on anyone and they all look alike.
Besides we got Jesus all over and no one is really sure what he looked like either.
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The Western potrayels make Jesus look like a Western European. In reality, Jesus more or less looked like an Arab..
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According to the history channel. We really don't know this at all.
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Jesus was native to those lands and the natives there were a semitic people, basically Arabs. Jesus did not have blond hair or blue eyes. He was a semitic person native to that land, and he looked like thus the people around him. That's why when Christians look done on Arabs or other middle eastern people based on looks they should remember Jesus looked very similar to the people they look down upon. Hypocrisy at its fullest.
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Its simply a hypothesis, and quite possibly a correct one, but we really don't know for sure. Look at the Berber people to see a confusing mix of genetics that seem completely out of place for their native location.
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no he would look like an isreali and noone disputes that
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Actually, he would have looked like a Jew, of His time.
I think that one of the reasons why Jesus is portrayed with a beard and long hair goes all the way back to the 1st Century ad. The people who actually knew Him told others what He looked like, and some of the earliest portrayals of Him show that He has a beard and long hair.
However, I'm not trying to be a problem for you, on this. Since Jews and Arabs are both Semites, Jesus might have looked like an Arab, too.
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The Jews of Jesus' time would have probably been closer in appearance to Aryan peoples or Caucasians than Arabs. Though they are part of the same language group as the Arabs they do, from modern DNA studies, seem to be more closely related to other peoples.
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I suppose you can't be certain, maybe that's partially the point so you have to know the man by his words and stories instead of how stylish his beard or four blue arms are.
That was solved in our current era.
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Kind of the point... We don't know either, and any drawing that is made now is just baseless. Since the drawing is not accurate and even if you try to draw it, it's not going to be him, since your just drawing any arab with some clothe
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Re: If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
Exactly!Kind of the point... We don't know either, and any drawing that is made now is just baseless. Since the drawing is not accurate and even if you try to draw it, it's not going to be him, since your just drawing any arab with some clothe
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Re: If We Can't Draw Muhammad, How The Heck Do We Know What He Looks Like?
Does it really matter what he looked like?
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Alternatively, we can just get a white piece of paper and can call that muhammad.
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Actually there are fairly detailed literary descriptions of him which are generally seen as accurate. I remember that he had a small gap between his front teeth and that he had vein on is forehead which popped out when he was upset. I don't remember much else, but if anyone is curious "The nine parts of desire" by Geraldine Brooks talks about it at some length.
Actually I would recommend that book to all, it is a great polemic work about Islam that manages to stay fair, and (get this) factually correct, which is a good deal more than I can say for the Spencer, Pipes, et al. and other allegedly "politically incorrect" writers on Islam.
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