Mohammed to overtake Jack as favourite name in UK

Which would make him an alchemist!

 

perhaps if you were a little more descriptive in you post, this whole first 2 pages would have been avoided. maybe if you had said something along the lines of

instead of

 

the op reffered to a article released by the british press and information was provided from the national records office, so how is it a insult to muhammad? would you say the same if somebody posted a thread saying that john was the second most popular name in saudi arabia do you think that christians would jump all over your thread saying your insulting st john? but let be honest i dont even think there is 1 person born in saudi arabia thats been named john in about 10 years. lets face it, thats never going to happen because there is no free press there

 

You could be wrong!

Let me introduce myself... I am John, from Saudi Arabia!

 

its easier to make a smart ass comment rather than debate the facts, but since there is nothing to disprove what i said then i suppose its to be expected

 

I've yet to meet an alchemist that could perform miracles.

 

C'mon buddy, you're taking it too seriously...

America, or UK, or Canada, or such countries are metropolitan. They have huge immigration from all parts of the world. There is a constant influx of new cultures. That is why you see all types of names and cultures and religions.

Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, in a closed country. Though, hundreds of thousands of foreigners work there, you can check it up if you like.

Many Americans and westerners also work there. People of all religions. They are not granted citizenship, but get Permanent Residency.

So, it would be ridiculous to say "i dont even think there is 1 person born in saudi arabia thats been named john in about 10 years."

It is not like that. Now, you cannot demand Arabs name their kids John, can you?

 

i make no demands of any kind, i simply stipulated the op's motive for posting and put it in different context to highligh how unfounded the acusation that the op started the thread purely to insult mohammed

 

I can understand the motives of OP. I've been in dialogue with him before. Our viewpoints do not match. I, and many here on DP, understand why he'd choose to post "news" about such a topic.

I know you'd say its no big deal. I agree with that. Its true, it is a famous name.

But it seems like making fun of the Prophet's name, to post it for supposed "discussion". Thats why there were accusations.

 

Whatever the motivation.. We all have the right to insult Mohammad if we want to. Judgment ultimately is up our maker, not you me or anyone else here, least of all Islam or Christianity or mere mortal man.

Cartman called Jesus a "pig fucker", though not PC, and perhaps sacreligious to some, I found it funny at the time.. I'd find it equally funny had he called Mohammad the same.

Too many people have way to thin a skin here... Does Mohammad really need people to defend him?

 

If we are talking about Saudi Arabia...here is a recent poll there (2 weeks ago)

Poll of Saudis: Don't like Jews and Christians, want Israel destroyed and
Saudi nuke
Dr. Aaron Lerner 21 December 2007

This survey of Saudi Arabia was conducted for Terror Free Tomorrow by D3
Systems of Vienna, Virginia and KA Europe SPRL. Interviews were conducted by
phone from a CATI facility in a nearby country outside the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.

The survey was conducted in Arabic, among a random national sample of 1,004
Saudi Arabian nationals aged 18 and older from November 30 to December 5,
2007.

For complete results:
www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/TFT Saudi Arabia Survey.pdf

The following are selected results.

Q6a: I will read a list of different kinds of people. Please tell me your
opinion of each group of people. Is your opinion very favorable, somewhat
favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable?

Iranians
Very Favorable 23.4% Somewhat Favorable 27.9%
Somewhat Unfavorable 15.5% Very Unfavorable 24.0%
Refused 2.5% Don't Know 6.7%

Americans
Very Favorable 18.1% Somewhat Favorable 21.9%
Somewhat Unfavorable 16.4% Very Unfavorable 35.7%
Refused 2.8% Don't Know 5.1%

Jews
Very Favorable 2.1% Somewhat Favorable 3.9%
Somewhat Unfavorable 7.0% Very Unfavorable 81.7%
Refused 4.1% Don't Know 1.1%

Christians
Very Favorable 13.7% Somewhat Favorable 25.5%
Somewhat Unfavorable 14.0% Very Unfavorable 40.3%
Refused 2.5% Don't Know 4.1%

 

Some followers of the religion of peace wanted to kill a woman for naming
a teddy bear inappropriately ... are you in favor of killing in such cases ?

 

He either wont answer of he will use the regular facile excuse of "they aren't real muslims".

 

That would have taught a lesson to westerners to stay in their country and not try to HELP those retarded governments/people.
I'm in favor of killing in cases where westerners goes to muslims countries as humanitarian causes: worry about your own people first, care about poverty & misery & bad education in your country.
Anyway, those muslims who kill for allah are the real thing, some will say they've been mislead, not at all, that's the core of the latest religion to have its believers spread the love.

Anyway, the god thing is not likely to be resolved anytime soon : religion feeds on ignorance and the need for quick and easy answers/orders.

Religion should be outlawed (at least, illegal to teach children any religion until they have the age to drive) and esperanto language taught in school in most countries possible, that's looking at long terms solutions to those problems..

 

Just for your information, most Muslims like to add Mohammad before their names.

 

Um, no, you don't. Do I have the right to mock the holocaust and jews (not that I would want to) ? No, stop being so sick.

 

Well how about "Ahmed"?

Its a popular name too! Mostly for last names!

 

Ahmed is another name for Muhammed.

 

It could also be due to naming Teddy bears?? Remember that Lady in Africa recently.
This has shocked me incidentally