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Anonymous
#1271826
2 months ago
Meh, I'm ok with this.
kamazeustra
#1271834
2 months ago
There's something off about it. It's probably the nose, but this almost looks caricatured.
Anonymous
#1271841
2 months ago
I don't really care about it as far as any of the other characters go but based on what little I know of muslim beliefs, wouldn't work out well at all.
Anonymous
#1271844
2 months ago
*but rarity, based on etc. etc.
Anonymous
#1271851
2 months ago
like i give a fuck
Anonymous
#1271853
2 months ago
A hijab usually implies islam. And islam is a silly belief system that deserves ridicule.
Anonymous
#1271854
2 months ago
you know there are light skinned muslims too. always with the nigrafication
Saint_Braeburn
#1271855
2 months ago
I admire the artists bluntness.
Posey
#1271858
2 months ago
Five bucks most of those Anons were the same.
Saint_Braeburn
#1271861
2 months ago
@Anon854

This is you, as a duck

Anonymous
#1271865
2 months ago
I was two of them! three now!
Anonymous
#1271873
2 months ago
death to muzziez
Flutterguy
#1271876
2 months ago
Can't say that i love the concept but this is REALLY well drawn and artists should do as they please after all (Except in commissions, that is it).

Overall, i quite like this

The more i look at this the more i like the concept, awesome
Saint_Braeburn
#1271877
2 months ago
@Anon873

Try harder. And "Muzziez"?
Anonymous
#1271888
2 months ago
Is it wrong that anytime someone brings up muslims, I think of Maxwell Q Klinger? Some should make a ponified Klinger.
Anonymous
#1271921
2 months ago
^ I always thought Klinger was an atheist, I know he was Lebanese but I don't think he was Muslim
Anonymous
#1271947
2 months ago
Season 8, ep 25 ,00:04:10-00:04:13 "Allah be praised I was too stupid to get into med school."
Saint_Braeburn
#1271963
2 months ago
@Anon88 and Anon921

According to the M.A.S.H Wiki, Klinger started as an Atheist, but later became Catholic.

However, in the Spin off, "AfterM.A.S.H, he was a Muslim.

The actor the played Klinger was an Orthodox Christian.
Anonymous
#1271970
2 months ago
A Lebanese catholic? He'll always be muslim in my headcannon.
Anonymous
#1271996
2 months ago
Forget Islam. Why would they have any human religion? They're pals with a real live sun goddess, FFS!
Anonymous
#1272071
2 months ago
My problem with the Islamic portrayals of ponies is the fact that artists are ignorant of their portrayal of Muslim women. Though Islamic dress codes are often enforced in the Middle-East, Islamic women in the western world do not always elect to wear the hijab.

By portraying Muslim humanized ponies as ONLY dark skinned and ONLY identified as such through stereotypical dress, artists unwittingly undermine the universal intention of Islam and limits it to a single culture.

A white woman in modern clothing is no less Muslim than an Arabic woman who dresses traditionally. The portrayal of Islam as a specifically Middle-Eastern faith undermines interfaith dialogue in the West and only furthers unhelpful stereotypes.

tl;dr There's nothing wrong with this pic but Islam is more than dress codes and race; stop limiting a belief system in the name of "social justice"
Saint_Braeburn
#1272115
2 months ago
@Anon1272071

They never claimed Islam wasn't anything more than a dress code and a race. It seems to me your trying to bring up a bigger issue on an unrelated image that never meant to suggest the thing that offended you. Would you rather Western Media forget about Arab Muslims, and only portray them as white?

And the Hijab is a major symbol of Islam, sorta like how the Kippah is a major symbol of Judaism.
Anonymous
#1272179
2 months ago
^

This wouldn't be a problem is there was any sort of nuances in portrayal of Muslims in media; if there was any sense of a Muslim community outside of Middle-Eastern (and sometimes African American) communities. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that, in the West, Islam is still regarded as a racial or cultural religion in spite of its emphasis on global community. One of the biggest challenges facing Muslims trying to spread Islam in America is the belief that only Middle-Eastern peoples can be Muslim. If Islam is to ever achieve the globalization it seeks, it must move beyond racial and cultural designations. No one suggests that Christianity is a faith bound to one race or culture; why shouldn't the same be true of Islam?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the image of an Arabic Muslim in traditional garb; but that is not the only image of Islam. I am not arguing against the artist's image; I am arguing against the very real stereotype of Islam as only an Arabic faith. Muslims come from many different cultures and backgrounds and it would be nice to see those reflected instead of the monolithic image of Islam we have today
BigMax
#1272192
2 months ago
Anonymous@1272071 said:
A white woman in modern clothing is no less Muslim than an Arabic woman who dresses traditionally.

Some muslims with stricter views may disagree, as they consider traditional clothing as a part of their belief.
Then again, portraying muslims as dark skinned people (Arabic, Indonesia, sub-Saharian and so on) is a matter of... statistics, since caucasian muslim women are quite rare in comparison. Like catholics in the Arab world. No fuss about it.

In the end, I really don't care if someone thinks that Fluttershy would be nicely humanized as a muslim girl. It's just that I think Islam doesn't fit the MLP: FiM culture at all.
Just like it doesn't fit the American culture.
Anonymous
#1272260
2 months ago
Islam is another religion of death. "Believe as we do or die." We should just glass the entire region and be done with it, but our corporations are too interested in stealing their oil to take care of the problem.

The Arab world chants "Death to America" and want to take over the western world because they have nothing, and made nothing and would still be stone age cavemen that got their asses kicked to the shittiest land on earth, if it weren't for the fact that the land they fuck over also happens to be rich in a resource that everyone else wants.

When we finally move away from an oil economy, they will return to being stone age cavemen, hitting each other over the head to satisfy their clan honor.

And all that Islam is worthy of are those retarded and weak cavemen.
Anonymous
#1272269
2 months ago
@260

They chant "Death to America"? Oh, I wonder why.
Anonymous
#1272280
2 months ago
^ The reasons are manifold.
I_Like_Your_Mane
#1272310
2 months ago
>#1272071

Fan art does not need rules. Get that into your thick skull.
Anonymous
#1272326
2 months ago
Oh boy, you sure showed me.
Anonymous
#1272344
2 months ago
But I Like Your Mane's logic is brick solid!
Rostam
#1272389
2 months ago
anyone likes pies cake and tea!

tea time!
Saint_Braeburn
#1272399
2 months ago
@Rostam

I_Like_Your_Mane
#1272489
2 months ago
>#1272344
It is indeed. So there's some art that does archetype the Muslim peoples as dark skinned... and yet there's some that don't (like ponies just wearing the garb). By all means, commission it out. I just don't see the issue in this 'typecasting' as it stands. I could see the point if it's a constant theme and all. Not to mention Westerners in general has a very lopsided view of Muslims. Like how people generally seem to not realize the gigantic Asian Muslim population exists (which coincidentally is more lax about clothing regulation than Middle Easterners)
Nightweaver20xx
#1272647
2 months ago
So how about some of the Love and Tolerance there guys?

How's that workin' out for ya?
Anonymous
#1272737
2 months ago
Another stereotypical muslim pic? Not even a very good one? Bah!

Where's the stereotypical orthodox jew? Use Twilight or Dash for lolz. Where's the stereotypical Hindu? Pinkie Pie of course. Where's the stereotypical Shinto shrine maiden? Where's the stereotypical Jainist? The stereotypical Buddhist? The stereotypical Rastafarian? (oh, wait, Zecora)

This pic fails because it's boring and overdone. Muslim trollpic? Yeah. Pretty original poster. Pretty original.
Anonymous
#1273246
2 months ago
People who believe fairy tales are real. We're in the third millennium, we should be discussing colonizing other planets. Instead we have people killing other people because they disagree on which fable is true or if their myths are true. It is extremely wasteful and the primary reason I'm against religion.
Anonymous
#1273258
2 months ago
>we should be discussing colonizing other planets.

mfw
Anonymous
#1273867
2 months ago
"Science does everything" types need to bother going out and actually learning science instead of blindly worshipping it in place of religion itself. Lemme know how your space colonization works out for you while elementary energy demands of lifting a single load of basic supplies offworld cost more than you'll make in a lifetime, much less getting it millions of miles away to a planet with a lethal atmosphere and no particularly valuable resources to even make the trip worth anything more than a commemorative T-shirt.
Anonymous
#1275587
2 months ago
In the early 1900s, it was determined by the British Royal Society of Science, the experts at the time, that heavier than air human flight was a physical impossibility and that the claim of a couple of redneck yanks was a fraud.

Shove that in your pipe and smoke it. It may take some resources, but we can find a way to do anything. To the stars!
bboifatz
#1277363
2 months ago
Trollbait just looses its charm when the creator take the direct approach, so here's some Nigel Thornberry.











Anonymous
#1463566
2 weeks ago
its well drawn and obviously made as a statement piece. Works better as fluttershy seeing as Rarity seems more of the Southern Belle type and I have never seen a hijab wearing southern belle. but back to the important part it is great art but kind of has a teenage attitude.
Anonymous
#1481408
1 week ago
This makes no sense, because Rarity's obviously Jewish. She's selfish, greedy, and manipulative, all attributes of the Hebrew race rather than the Arabs (a group whom they slaughter as they claim the Germans did to them).
PPPP
#1481424
1 week ago
In the thumbnail it looks like she has a cat nose.
PPPP
#1481427
1 week ago
@bboifatz Why does his hair get blue when he cools down? Blue fire is hotter than yellow fire.
Zombie_Trotsky
#1481439
1 week ago
^ Hollywood science.

Red: Hot

Blue: Cool