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# Religious Taboos: Islam is very divided on portrayals in general and the prophet in particular. Some consider it haram to portray (in text or image) any person at all, while others are okay with portraying any person, and yet others make an exception for Muhammad in one direction or the other.
# Freedom
# Cultural Bullying Issues: Members of one group joking about something important to another group (in this case Muhammad to Muslims) can be perceived as offensive, even when the jokes are intended to be harmless.
# Hate-Speech Issues: The long, two-way history of hate-speech and violence by non-Muslims against Muslims, and by Muslims against non-Muslims, can make such portrayals very touchy for either side.
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For more on these four issues, see [[{{PAGENAME}}/Analysis|the analysis tab]].
The main sources on the life of Muhammad are the ''sira'' (prophetic biographies) and the ''hadith'' (sayings of Muhammad). [[The Quran]], in contrast, contains only little information on Muhammad and his life.
See also [[wikipedia:Muhammad|the other wiki]], our own [[Islam|Useful Notes on Islam]] and [[The Quran]].
{{tropelist|Tropes found in works that deal with the Prophet Muhammad}}
* [[Blood Brothers]]: Muslims are considered brothers (or sisters) in
* [[The Chosen One]]: Islam considers Muhammad the greatest and final prophet.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The battle of Badr was one-sided.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: A hadith relates that the [[Archangel Gabriel]] prevented him from suicide.
* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]: Muhammad regarded [[Jesus Christ]] as a holy man, a prophet of God, a wise teacher of morality and so on. He dismissed the idea that Jesus was God or son of God as [[Unwanted False Faith]] that didn't pop up until after Jesus died. Today, Islam still regard Jesus as second in holiness only to Muhammad himself.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Umar and Abu Sufyan were opponents of Muhammad initially, before embracing Islam and becoming prominent figureheads of Islam.
* [[May–December Romance]]: With Muhammed as the younger partner and his first wife as the older.
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* [[True Companions]]: The ''Sahabah'' or Companions of the Prophet.
{{examples|Works that feature the Prophet Muhammad}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* [[Max Frei]]'s standalone novel ''My Ragnarök'' features his [[Author Avatar]] as the reincarnation of Ali ibn Abi Talib who assists the [[Back from the Dead]] Mohammed in facilitating the Last Judgment (in the name of Allah, of course). Along the way, the novel incorporates several other echatological myths into it (hence the title).
=== Newspapers ===
* Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten managed to mix all four portrayal problems into one big mess, by having a "draw the prophet" contest and publishing some quite racist contributions [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Jyllands-Posten-pg3-article-in-Sept-30-2005-edition-of-KulturWeekend-entitled-Muhammeds-ansigt.png where Muhammad looked evil as well as grotesquely non-aryan]. The issue was made much worse by two Danish imams (Islamic religious leaders) who started touring the Middle East showing not only the very worst of the drawings published in Jyllands-Posten but also fraudulently adding some even worse drawings and pretend that those had also been published in Jyllands-Posten. Violent worldwide [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]] ensued, including attacks on Danish embassies.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Appears as a character in the controversial browser game ''Faith Fighter'', with a meteor as a special move. The game has a "censored version", where the only difference is that Muhammed's face is censored.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In ''[[South Park]]'', he's a member of a team of superheroes, with the power of pyrokenesis. Jesus and Buddha are on the same team. Portrayal Problem #1 is redefined into a superpower. In one episode, Tom Cruise is trying to steal this superpower, so that ''he'' can be immune from getting depicted by the tabloids. Later, people forgot about this earlier portrayal by South Park and much controversy arose when they announced they were going to portray him again. Islamic extremist death threats and Comedy Central censoring their episode followed. Ironically the "portrayal" turned out not to show Muhammed at all (he was inside a bear suit).▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Chick Tracts]]'', being the [[Activist Fundamentalist Antics]] kind of work that it is, goes straight into the Type 4 tradition. It portrays him as a brigand, thug, devil-worshiping liar, pedophile and so on... Just like it does with all other non-Christian characters, except for those up for [[Easy Evangelism]], of course.
* The aforementioned Jyllands-Posten incident is alluded to in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' [
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[The Other Wiki|Wikipedia's]] page on [[wikipedia:Muhammad|Muhammad]] contain many beautiful Mohammad portraits painted by Muslims. The wiki also has a page on [[wikipedia:Everybody Draw Mohammed Day|Everybody Draw Mohammed Day]]. <!-- That doesn't mean we need to copy the illustrations here. Please keep in mind the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment. -->
** For those offended by said imagery, Wikipedia also provided instructions for Muslims on how to disable images of Muhammad from appearing whenever they visit said articles as a way to placate them while still adhering to their no-censorship mandate (as said instructions are done client-side rather than as a form of censorship by Wikipedia themselves).
* ''[[Zinnia Jones]]'', with her analysis [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOESmTMstw The "please stop" utility exploit] and her contribution: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYBGY4nQrig ZINNIA JONES DRAWS THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD]... {{spoiler|A friendly smiley with a turban.}}
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
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▲* In ''[[South Park]]'', he's a member of a team of superheroes, with the power of pyrokenesis. Jesus and Buddha are on the same team. Portrayal Problem #1 is redefined into a superpower. In one episode, Tom Cruise is trying to steal this superpower, so that ''he'' can be immune from getting depicted by the tabloids. Later, people forgot about this earlier portrayal by South Park and much controversy arose when they announced they were going to portray him again. Islamic extremist death threats and Comedy Central censoring their episode followed. Ironically the "portrayal" turned out not to show Muhammed at all (he was inside a bear suit).
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