SO WHAT'S ALL THE HYPOCRISY ? ALSO - WE REPUBLISH OUR ESSAY ON THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD. There was almost no public reaction in Egypt to the Editor who published the controversial Muhammad cartoons in the middle of Ramadan in the newspaper Al Fager and, unlike the Danish Editor, he doesn't think it's necessary to apologize. This astonishing revelation coming from a weblog.* Meanwhile Danish goods are boycotted and Danish tourists can't even change their kroner. So what's all this hypocrisy about ? Also - we republish our evidence showing that the Prophet Muhammad was probably gay - although perhaps a celibate gay. Images: Top Left: Cartoon is a humorous, but sobering, reminder of the conveniently forgotten story of the love relationship between the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Zaid and ridicules only the dogma that the Prophet would have executed gays. As explained more fully in the essay, as Zaid was initially a slave (a wedding gift from Khadija) there was no question of adultery and once Zaid was freed we have evidence to show that Muhammad proclaimed a formal partnership or union, equivalent to a marriage. It may have been motivated as much or more by compassion than pure physical attraction (the same seems true of his "heterosexual marriages") and while their partnership was much more intense than the purely platonic, there is no evidence proving any sexual intimacy. Top Right and Bottom: Double Standards ? Egyptian newspaper Al Fager didn't hesitate to reprint all the Danish cartoons during Ramadan. The more censorship, the less possibility for religion to evolve and the less scope for the "heretics" of today to search out the accepted consensus of tomorrow. But this cannot be achieved without heartache, anger and sacrifice. Image Left by MSNBC political cartoonist Daryl Cagle WHY HAVE WE USED A CARTOON ? We know the cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words is a tired one, however this image does reveal immediately and dramatically, albeit in a humorous way, just one of the hidden truths about the Prophet, often overlooked, which is researched seriously in the essay. If you think that we have questioned the sexuality of the Prophet just to be controversial, you should consider all those executed and tortured because clerics believe their behaviour would have been abhorent to the Prophet and you should also read and consider the considerable evidence presented in our essay. We were shocked by the recent depiction of the Prophet (peace be upon him), which implied that all Muslims are terrorists and we found little of interest in the others; they were just dull. But rather than burning down an embassy we thought we could win the argument through scholarly debate. So here is a cartoon, a riposte, to snub those satanic Western cartoonists that we're happy to republish. It was first shown in our history section and was carefully traced from the doodled margins of a twelfth century Bible. It may raise the ire of the more bigoted Christians as it shows the fearless crusader king Richard as a cocksucking khawal. There is, however, documentary evidence to corroborate this. As you may know, there is academic speculation over a possible secretive dalliance between the lionhearted Richard and Salah El Din, the chivalrous Egyptian king and intrepid Saracen hero, and also regarding a homoerotic flirtation between Salah El Din and a Turkish courtier in Cairo, Karakush ( Click for more info ), and it is the recent revelation that Karakush was a eunuch which supports the Salah El Din on top hypothesis. The rumours that the sealed vaults of Cairo's Antiquities Museum harbor the Egyptian king's giant dildo, driven by wooden cogs, which thrusts up and down, providing there's a willing operator to turn a wheel, derive from unsubstantiated medieval slander. Anyway, he must have been top, because he had a bushy beard whereas pretty boy Richard disguised himself as a kitchen maid on his journey back to England. So it was Salah El Din who must have worn the trousers - er - or, if you want to be pedantic, chain mail cloaked by a short silk skirt with embroidered Arabic lettering and shimmering gold accents . x |