Blasphemy Against Holy Personages
Individuals have been accused of blasphemy or of insulting Islam for:
- speaking ill of Allah.
- finding fault with Muhammad.
- slighting a prophet who is mentioned in the Qur'an, or slighting a member of Muhammad's family.
- claiming to be a prophet or a messenger.
- speculating about how Muhammad would behave if he were alive (Nigeria).
- drawing a picture to represent Muhammad or any other prophet, or making a film which features a prophet (Egypt).
- writing Muhammad's name on the walls of a toilet (Pakistan).
- naming a teddy bear Muhammad (Sudan). See Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case.
- invoking God while committing a forbidden act.
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Famous quotes containing the words blasphemy against, blasphemy and/or holy:
“All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.”
—Bible: New Testament Matthew 12:31.
“And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove. Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell’s major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)