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To: Stayingawayfromthedarkside

Censoring pictures of Muhammad isn't worthy of the 21st century. It's not even worthy of the 11th century.


5 posted on 01/31/2006 8:09:21 PM PST by Post Toasties
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To: Post Toasties
Censoring pictures of Muhammad isn't worthy of the 21st century.
It's not even worthy of the 11th century.


I don't know...seeing how one of the first casualties of Mohammed was
a poet who dared to make fun of The Prophet.

IIRC, he had her killed, while cradling her young child.

Source: "Jihad In The West" by Paul Fregosi
24 posted on 01/31/2006 8:23:24 PM PST by VOA
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To: Post Toasties
Censoring pictures of Muhammad isn't worthy of the 21st century. It's not even worthy of the 11th century.

It is seemingly a "new" thing. Same as not depicting any living creature is also forbidden. There are many examples of Renaisance era Muslim glass & mosaic depictions & sculptures of birds, animals, and even people just in the Corning Museum of Glass.

Also, check this:

Mohammed at Medina, from an Arab or central Asian medieval-era manuscript.

Here is an interesting archive of Mohammad images throughout history.

Or, for something modern, try this:

Steve D., the proprietor of this blog , fashioned his own statement about the controversy by Photoshopping one of the Jyllands-Posten drawings onto the rear end of a camel.

62 posted on 01/31/2006 9:58:55 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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