The Joint Jury Court of Athens announced today its decision for the 23-year-old Pakistani, who, in the summer of 2022, had murdered his 17-year-old girlfriend Nicoleta in the Athens neighbourhood of Peristeri because, as he said, she cursed Muhammad, the founder of Islam, during an argument. With its decision, the court unanimously found the Pakistani…
Don’t they have a rule against idolizing people? How do they not consider their treatment of Muhammad as idolizing him?
It’s a quite literal rule - idols and idolatry are things that have actual meaning in Abrahamic religions, and in the pagan religions that Islam supplanted at Mecca. See also the icons and iconoclastic conflict in the neighbouring Orthodox Christian tradition.
“Wow he’s perfect” isn’t idolatry in the literal sense of an actual physical idol object mean to be physical manifestation of, or place of residence of, a deity.
Is that why they ban all pictures/depictions of Muhammad? To avoid stepping over that line of idolizing him?
From how I’ve understood it, yes that’s exactly why