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This is an old article (1997), but it is quite pertinent to the news today.

So will they attack the Supreme Court next or did they give in and alter the image?

1 posted on 05/06/2015 8:39:17 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict

Sounds good to me! Let’s go further and ban mosques and Korans.


2 posted on 05/06/2015 8:41:40 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: FR_addict

Perps and pervs always hide their faces


3 posted on 05/06/2015 8:41:53 AM PDT by enraged
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I’d make them a deal: We will sandblast Mad Mo from the Freize just as soon as we sandblast Islamofacist influence from this country and this administration.


4 posted on 05/06/2015 8:42:23 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: FR_addict
Maybe it can be altered to something more appropriate.


6 posted on 05/06/2015 8:45:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: willywill

Ping to a muslim apologist.
Is this a provocation too?


8 posted on 05/06/2015 8:46:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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I’m certainly for removing Muhammed from depiction of “great law givers”.


9 posted on 05/06/2015 8:48:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: FR_addict
Lets do things my way.

In the interest of pluralism.

11 posted on 05/06/2015 8:48:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: FR_addict

This “defacing” of a relief sculpture would perhaps make sense if indeed there had been an unbroken tradition of NO images of Mohammed. However, even the Muslims broke this rule in ancient Persian manuscripts from centuries ago. So give me a break.


12 posted on 05/06/2015 8:48:47 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: FR_addict

Add a layer of bacon.


14 posted on 05/06/2015 8:50:18 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: FR_addict

The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with:

Oxford Dictionary.

...the EXISTENCE of... The muslims and other groups of radicals want to wipe out the existence of everything they don’t agree with.


16 posted on 05/06/2015 8:50:44 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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If Amish do not drive cars, then they themselves should not drive cars. It doesn’t mean that others must follow this rule of their religion.

If Muslims do not permit images of Mohammed, then they themselves should not create images of Mohammed or take them into their homes, businesses, or mosques. It doesn’t mean that others must follow this rule of their religion.

This is not difficult to understand.


18 posted on 05/06/2015 8:51:34 AM PDT by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
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Remember the outrage when the Taliban destroyed the 1,700 year old statues of Buddha in the Bamyan valley of Afghanistan back in 2001?

Isn’t the motivation for erasing the depiction of Muhammad etched inside the U.S. Supreme Court chamber the same as that leading to the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas?

The purpose of both actions is to eliminate anything offensive to muslims.


19 posted on 05/06/2015 8:51:52 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: FR_addict

Destroy in the name of tolerance, muslims really do have a lot in common with liberals, both are evil decievers.


21 posted on 05/06/2015 8:53:02 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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“Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected the request to sandblast Muhammad, saying the artwork “was intended only to recognize him, among many other lawgivers, as an important figure in the history of law; it is not intended as a form of idol worship”. The court later added a footnote to tourist materials, calling it “a well-intentioned attempt by the sculptor to honor Muhammad”.”

I wonder what will happen when they try it again?


23 posted on 05/06/2015 8:54:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Mohammed doesn’t belong in a line-up of great law-givers. So I’m all for sandblasting him out.


25 posted on 05/06/2015 8:54:55 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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get rid of it

no references to Mo or his stinking cult belong anywhere in the USA particularly on US gubment property!

BAN MO NOW!!


26 posted on 05/06/2015 8:55:20 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad

all over wiki!


28 posted on 05/06/2015 8:57:53 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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I liked South Park dressing Mohammed in a bear suit -- but apparently that was considered blasphemous, too.


30 posted on 05/06/2015 8:59:08 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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So will they attack the Supreme Court next or did they give in and alter the image?

Rehnquist declined the request to remove him from the frieze.

33 posted on 05/06/2015 9:01:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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He is also depicted as a gargoyle on the Library of Congress building:

http://moorishsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/locfez2.jpeg

http://moorishsociety.com/tag/washington-dc/


34 posted on 05/06/2015 9:03:02 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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