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I Guess the Muslims Have to Burn the Supreme Court Now Too (Mohammed on Frieze)
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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.


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KEYWORDS: cartoons; frieze; islam; mohammed; muslims; supremecourt
You KNOW what the next target is now. ;-)
1 posted on 02/06/2006 1:26:03 PM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480

Charlemagne ought to take care of business with that sword while Mo' has his back turned.


2 posted on 02/06/2006 1:27:25 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack; eyespysomething
Charlemagne ought to take care of business with that sword while Mo' has his back turned.

LOL

3 posted on 02/06/2006 1:28:35 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: Pyro7480

I expected to see horns and a tail.


4 posted on 02/06/2006 1:28:46 PM PST by ol' hoghead (Some fiend stole my corkscrew. I've had nothing but food and water to live on this week)
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To: Pyro7480

That's not Moe. It's Larry.


5 posted on 02/06/2006 1:29:29 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Pyro7480

That whack job is on the USSC building?


6 posted on 02/06/2006 1:29:43 PM PST by Steveone (Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
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7 posted on 02/06/2006 1:30:04 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Pyro7480

And who was the idiot architect who put Mo's image on the US Supreme Court??


8 posted on 02/06/2006 1:30:06 PM PST by indcons (God has sent me to punish you Muslims for your insolence - Genghiz Khan)
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To: Pyro7480

Really? Is he beheading an innocent in the name of TROP?


9 posted on 02/06/2006 1:32:50 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Pyro7480

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?


10 posted on 02/06/2006 1:33:39 PM PST by aposiopetic
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To: Pyro7480

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 :-) .


11 posted on 02/06/2006 1:35:54 PM PST by ikka
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To: indcons
And who was the idiot architect who put Mo's image on the US Supreme Court??

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.

12 posted on 02/06/2006 1:37:40 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: ikka

Brandishing a sword is behaving? ;-)


13 posted on 02/06/2006 1:37:55 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: SittinYonder

LOL!


14 posted on 02/06/2006 1:38:07 PM PST by eyespysomething (For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.)
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To: SittinYonder

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."


15 posted on 02/06/2006 1:40:21 PM PST by eyespysomething (For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion.)
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To: eyespysomething

I didn't know that. Thanks for posting it!


16 posted on 02/06/2006 1:44:52 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480

bump


17 posted on 02/07/2006 6:37:50 AM PST by Revelation 911 (God is love, Love endures forever, Love God, Love your neighbor, Vengeance is mine)
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