There's also Fullwhitemoon, another manga Muslim http://fullwhitemoon.deviantart.com
Not really a lolcow because he debunks muslim stereotypes, but he doesn't believe in evolution http://fullwhitemoon.deviantart.com/art/Stamp-28-I-reject-Evolution-178099927
Islam is often known in the west for what it isn't. I don't agree with it one hundred percent, but it has beautiful art, great music and great food as Satan said. It also helped contribute to western civilization and medicine.
I have to say that this art is pretty decent but I don't really agree with this guy's message.
I was a practicing Muslimah back in 2002-2003 and again from 2011 to this year, while I like some of things that Islam offers, I found it to be to restricting and regimented for me and I couldn't keep up, plus I started to lack in the spiritual aspects and the rules and regulations made it a chore for me. I still respect Muslims and I respect others' choices in how they want to worship God or whatever but this religion isn't for me.
That said, as fundamentalist as this guy seems to be he apparently isn't aware that in Islam that you aren't allowed to draw pictures.
From the Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law " One should realize that the prohibition of picture making is extremely severe, that it is counted among the enormities, and the threats against doing it are very empathetic. Bukhari and Muslim relate that a man came to Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be well pleased with him and his father) and said, "My livelihood comes solely from my hands, and I make these pictures. Can you give me a legal opinion about them?" Ibn 'Abbas told him, "Come closer," and the man did. "Closer," he said, and the man did, until he put his hand on the man's head and said: "Shall I tell you what I heard from the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace)? I heard the Messenger of Allah say,
" 'Every maker of pictures will go to the fire, where a being will be set upon him to torment him in hell for each picture he made, so if you must, draw trees and things without animate life in them."
And from the same book comes these quotes:
"On the Day of Judgement, part of the hellfire will come forth with two eyes with which to see, two ears with which to hear, and a tongue with which to speak, saying, 'I have been ordered to deal with three: he holds there is another god besides Allah, with every arrogant tyrant, and with makers of pictures.'"
Also,
"Whoever makes a picture, Allah shale torture him with it on the Day of Judgement until he can breathe life into it, and he will never be able to."
tl:dr: In Islam drawing pictures of animals and people is prohibited and if you draw them then Allah is going let make them alive so that they can go Freddy Krueger on your ass for all eternity, but hey at least you can draw rocks and trees.
That's literally why they do it, though. The Qu'ran states that women should be covered in the presence of men outside their family because it protects the men from animalistic rape instincts.
This fellow seems different from a lot of lolcows, in that its only his art that is "lolcowish".
It seems he's probably a fairly nice, productive young man, without a ton of weird habits and mannerisms. Its only his art that is a lolcow imo
That's literally why they do it, though. The Qu'ran states that women should be covered in the presence of men outside their family because it protects the men from animalistic rape instincts.
Because every time I leave the house and see young women out and about there are hoards of men following and harassing all of them for having bare arms/legs/tight shirts/skinny jeans/visible head hair. Myself included.
I have to say that this art is pretty decent but I don't really agree with this guy's message.
I was a practicing Muslimah back in 2002-2003 and again from 2011 to this year, while I like some of things that Islam offers, I found it to be to restricting and regimented for me and I couldn't keep up, plus I started to lack in the spiritual aspects and the rules and regulations made it a chore for me. I still respect Muslims and I respect others' choices in how they want to worship God or whatever but this religion isn't for me.
That said, as fundamentalist as this guy seems to be he apparently isn't aware that in Islam that you aren't allowed to draw pictures.
From the Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law " One should realize that the prohibition of picture making is extremely severe, that it is counted among the enormities, and the threats against doing it are very empathetic. Bukhari and Muslim relate that a man came to Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be well pleased with him and his father) and said, "My livelihood comes solely from my hands, and I make these pictures. Can you give me a legal opinion about them?" Ibn 'Abbas told him, "Come closer," and the man did. "Closer," he said, and the man did, until he put his hand on the man's head and said: "Shall I tell you what I heard from the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace)? I heard the Messenger of Allah say,
" 'Every maker of pictures will go to the fire, where a being will be set upon him to torment him in hell for each picture he made, so if you must, draw trees and things without animate life in them."
And from the same book comes these quotes:
"On the Day of Judgement, part of the hellfire will come forth with two eyes with which to see, two ears with which to hear, and a tongue with which to speak, saying, 'I have been ordered to deal with three: he holds there is another god besides Allah, with every arrogant tyrant, and with makers of pictures.'"
Also,
"Whoever makes a picture, Allah shale torture him with it on the Day of Judgement until he can breathe life into it, and he will never be able to."
tl:dr: In Islam drawing pictures of animals and people is prohibited and if you draw them then Allah is going let make them alive so that they can go Freddy Krueger on your ass for all eternity, but hey at least you can draw rocks and trees.
I remember seeing some of this in a history class once. How would this be justified? I sort of remember the professor saying that art was tolerated so long as it didn't show the Prophet, God or scenes from the Koran, but this was a long time ago so I might not be remembering it right (or the prof was wrong—there was a lot of this art back in the day though).
I've actually gotten along pretty well with all the Muslims I've met. Two of them were less than devout though (they drank beer with me). The others were more religious, though one of the religious ones was pretty westernized.
It's regional. There are plenty of depictions of even Mohammed in Persian areas. Islam is pretty fractured even outside the Sunni/Shia schism. Christianity was that way before, more or less, the Roman Inquisition.
I've came across his work before, and at first glance he seemed pretty reasonable. Zealous, yes, but still somewhat same. Such a shame he closes his mind.
It's regional. There are plenty of depictions of even Mohammed in Persian areas. Islam is pretty fractured even outside the Sunni/Shia schism. Christianity was that way before, more or less, the Roman Inquisition.
Gotta love how this guy wants to boycott Israel.
Ironically, Israel treats Muslims ( the ones in Israel proper, not West Bank/Gaza) with more kindness, dignity and freedom than pretty much every other Muslim majority country on the planet.
I actually try to make a point of supporting companies with ties to Israel
Tragedy is that this guy is like the strawman feminist of Muslim culture. There's so much legitimately good discussion and debate we could have if this guy wasn't a dickhead, but no, we get comics detailing how buying a Pepsi makes you fucking Space Hitler.
Tragedy is that this guy is like the strawman feminist of Muslim culture. There's so much legitimately good discussion and debate we could have if this guy wasn't a dickhead, but no, we get comics detailing how buying a Pepsi makes you fucking Space Hitler.
Something tells me Nayfag never had a woman actually take her hijab off for him, or else why would he be drawing holier-then-thou-art anime posters in the first place? It's most likely a severe lack of understanding of human emotions and interactions that drives some autistic people to become zealots; usually it's the militant atheist kind, sometimes it's religious but it always is grating no matter what side of the argument they're on.