| rdfs:comment | - No one, not even the most clever and wise imams of Mecca, know exactly what the Anti-Muhammed will look like, if and when he appears. This is even some confusion as to whether the Anti-Muhammed will be male, as it would simply make sense for the Anti-Muhammed to be an attractive, literate, intelligent, and thoroughly pleasant woman. However, since imagining women is strictly forbidden by the Qur'an, the Anti-Muhammed is widely considered to be a man by Muslims, on pain of eternal damnation.
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| abstract | - No one, not even the most clever and wise imams of Mecca, know exactly what the Anti-Muhammed will look like, if and when he appears. This is even some confusion as to whether the Anti-Muhammed will be male, as it would simply make sense for the Anti-Muhammed to be an attractive, literate, intelligent, and thoroughly pleasant woman. However, since imagining women is strictly forbidden by the Qur'an, the Anti-Muhammed is widely considered to be a man by Muslims, on pain of eternal damnation. According to Imam al-Duresh of Dubai, the Anti-Muhammed will be "...a white guy, of course, though he could be Chinese. I'm not exactly sure about that. But, unlike the real Muhammed, he will be short. And he will have no beard. He will probably have glasses, and his trade will be accounting. Yes, he will be an accountant, or work in a bank or something like that. Come to think of it, he will be a Jew. Yes, a big, fat, greedy Jew. May Allah save us!" But not so fast, cautions Imam Salashfar of Detroit, who argues "[a] big, fat, greedy Jew? This is ridiculous - a good Muslim could see him a mile away and pelt him accordingly with stones as soon as he drew close. No, the Anti-Muhammed will look just like any other Muslim. But, you will know him because he will have no facial hair. No beard, no nothing. Even his sideburns will be reasonably trimmed. This will be his mark." But not so fast, cautions Imam Salam-Dran of Minneapolis, who argues "The anti-Muhammed will not look like a Muslim nor a Jew. He will come from the heartland of heathen west bearing a weapon whose roar will sound like the voice of the Angel of Death. He will also be a giant man with skin like iron that no bomb can harm." The differences in these descriptions highlight how difficult it will be to identify the Anti-Muhammed when he darkens your prayer mat, and it is this ambiguousness that frightens Muslims the most. "Oh!" cries Iraqi insurgent and Sunni Muslim Ahmed Mustafa as he loads another 81mm mortar round to fire at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, "Allah save us from the nefarious Anti-Muhammed! His arrival will bring happiness, tolerance, and even peace to the Muslim world or if we resist he will wipe out all of us in his so called Holy Crusade. Such a thing cannot be allowed to pass either way!"
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