Posted on 02/06/2006 1:26:01 PM PST by Pyro7480
The North Frieze on the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC features a bas-relief sculpture of Mohammed, among several other historical law-givers. He is in the center of this image holding a curved scimitar; on the left is Charlemagne, and on the right is Byzantine Emperor Justinian.
Charlemagne ought to take care of business with that sword while Mo' has his back turned.
LOL
I expected to see horns and a tail.
That's not Moe. It's Larry.
That whack job is on the USSC building?
And who was the idiot architect who put Mo's image on the US Supreme Court??
Really? Is he beheading an innocent in the name of TROP?
Is it to be expected that a Google search of images does not turn up the recent controversial cartoons? Would this possibly be China-style censorship?
Note that Mohammed is behaving - only because he is surrounded by armed Christians. There is a message there if we are willing to pay attention :-) .
That's the trouble with giving creative license to artists. You get all kinds of crap that you don't want. You have to tell them, "Look, I want Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. No, for goodness sakes, not that Roosevelt ... Teddy Roosevelt!" Otherwise the artists are cutting in pictures of Mohammad.
Brandishing a sword is behaving? ;-)
LOL!
Actually, CAIR (those great Americans, allah be damned)
already tried in 1997 to get it removed:
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=4489
Supreme Court To Keep Graven Image Of Muhammed
Mar. 12, 1997
WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) - The Supreme Court will not remove a sculpted image of the Prophet Muhammed from the walls of the courtroom, according to a letter from the Chief Justice to an American-Islamic group on Tuesday.
The frieze of Muhammed is part of a larger sculpture in the justices' courtroom that includes images of other historic lawgivers including Moses, Justinian, and Confucius. Islamic groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, had asked that sculpture be erased or altered. Islam strongly discourages images of the prophet, and many Muslims believe such images distract from the worship of God.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in his letter to the council, "Altering the depiction of Muhammad would impair the artistic integrity of the whole. Additionally, it is unlawful (under US Code) to remove or in any way injure an architectural feature in the Supreme Court."
I didn't know that. Thanks for posting it!
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