Talk:Mahomet (play)

message: Made section header and section param in RFCxxx template the same. DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 03:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment 

message: Do you have proof for this comment: "Muhammad's lechery prompted him to invent a commandment from Allah" ? First, one needs to prove intent to prove lechery. One must provide proof to support both claims: intent for lechery and invention of verses.
Moreover, the analysis section of the article is not a direct work of Voltaire or a published part of his play. As such, comments about lechery and the invention of verses in the Quraan are nothing but additional material added with subjective anti-Islamic undertones, meanwhile the article should describe the play and not add to it new material to give it juice.
Homiex (talk) 16:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voltaire's play "Mahomet" 

message: Shouldn't some mention be made of modern opposition to the performance of this play.  The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2006 the play was cancelled from a cultural center event in San Genis Poully, France, because of complaints by Islamic activists.  See: http://uniset.ca/terr/news/wsj_voltaire_mohammed.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.168.254 (talk) 21:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception section -- Voltaire's play "Mahomet" 

message: Yes, it is true that the foremost target of Voltaire's _Mahomet_ was the Catholic Church and fanatism in general. But it is certainly not true that Voltaire had a positive view on Islam as indicated by the quotes. He wrote to Frederick the Great, King of Prussia in 1740: 
But that a camel-merchant should stir up insurrection in his village; that in league with some miserable followers he persuades them that he talks with the angel Gabriel; that he boasts of having been carried to heaven, where he received in part this unintelligible book, each page of which makes common sense shudder; that, to pay homage to this book, he delivers his country to iron and flame; that he cuts the throats of fathers and kidnaps daughters; that he gives to the defeated the choice of his religion or death: this is assuredly nothing any man can excuse, at least if he was not born a Turk, or if superstition has not extinguished all natural light in him. 
Can be found here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.196.242.70 (talk) 00:10, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: While I basically agree with you, but for such a hot-potato topic as this article deals with, I think we should work out some consensus first before any drastic changes to this article; as a side note - but no offense intended, we Wikipedians sign our names at the end of talk page posts. Jamutaq (talk) 18:34, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Of course Voltaire was opposed to Islam 

message: Just take a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_critics_of_Islam  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.35.87.234 (talk) 20:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for you're input! I think it should be easy for me to find some good and reliable external sources to further support our agreed-upon point, but I would hesitate to change the article without them. Jamutaq (talk) 18:38, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voltaire is listed among the Wikipedia-"List of Critics of Islam" 

message: I doubt there are many performances of Mahomet in Occidental countries or for that matter in secular Islamic-majority countries like Turkey or the Kazakhstan (though it was successfully performed quite recently in France), I'm not sure if countries elsewhere in the world - such as Japan, Thailand or India - feel freer to put on the play. Jamutaq (talk) 18:52, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Actual Performances of the Play Today?