[bayouranger]

This is too much...

URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20622

[sono]

I'm sure there are more than a few graphic artists who would only be too willing to help out here.

[gotribe]

She should have checked with Free Republic. I'm sure there's an artist here who could provide an image of Mohammed. (let 'er rip!)

[Jeff Chandler]

[Publius6961]

Am I the only one to find this ironic in the extreme (to be charitable)?
Artists are among the freest spirits around, not bound by the circumscribed limits we mere mortals must observe. This can be observed over and over in both word and deed.

So I'm not buying this.

I prefer the obvious alternative motivation to "being noble and respecting" a murderous culture.

I call the alternative fear.

[TheForceOfOne]

[One Proud Dad]

Because Muhammad has horns and an ass face.

[Tokra]

Actually - The Ten Commandments say the same thing.

The commandment does NOT say that you shouldn't make false idols - it DOES say that you should not make "any graven image" or "any likeness of anything " in heaven, on earth or in the sea.

I wonder why we Christians or Jews don't pay attention to that particular commandment? That's something that always bothered me as a kid.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I kind of have to wonder how good the book would be if the author didn't know that images of Mohammed were forbidden. I mean, how deep was his research into Mohammed and Islam if he missed that one?

There was a movie out some years ago called "The Message," aka "Mohammed, Prophet of God." Anthony Quinn was in it. Mohammed was a character in the movie too, but you never saw him or, if I recall correctly, heard him speak. When he was "in" a scene, you would know because the other characters would address him by looking into the camera. Actually, it wasn't a bad film.

To be honest, I'm with the Muslims on this one. As a Christian who is often tired of how non-Christians portray my religion, I can understand how Muslims might be upset with the way non-Muslims portray theirs. It is not, as some in the article claim, an issue of "free speech" or "democracy." It is an issue of religious sensibilities that they do not understand or that they simply refuse to respect. The author can still publish the book -- unillustrated.

[Alouette]

Cartoons are here

[raygun]

Why doesn't he just take a picture of Muhammed's likeness carved above the entrance to the Supreme Court. There've been many objections to that, but each has been struck down: "its an image nothing more (get over it)." Gavel slam.