The prophet of Islam, Muhammad (c.570-632) can be seen on the North Wall Frieze in the Supreme Court courtroom, in Washington DC. Liz O. Baylen (THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
Posted on 02/08/2006 2:02:28 PM PST by neverdem
Lost in the furor over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad is the fact that his likeness has long been portrayed in the collections of some of the world's greatest museums and libraries without exciting alarm or comment.
While rare in the 1,400 years of Islamic art, depictions of Muhammad are found in the collections of such institutions as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris and the Edinburgh University library.
Muhammad has been portrayed in the work of revered Muslim artists and of such Western figures as William Blake, Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali -- as well as the creators of the cable-TV cartoon series "South Park."
None of those depictions aroused the anger seen in reaction to a set of satirical cartoons that appeared in Danish and other European newspapers -- a violent response that continued to roil the Muslim world yesterday.
Three Afghans were killed and dozens wounded in a firefight with NATO peacekeepers in southern Afghanistan. Demonstrations also took place in Iran, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, the Philippines and the Palestinian territories.
In Washington, President Bush called Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to express "solidarity and support."
Alan A. Godlas, who teaches Islamic studies at the University of Georgia, said Islam has long frowned on depictions of the prophet out of a concern that any images of Muhammad or other religious figures could lead to idolatry and detract from worship of Allah.
But, he said, "The reason these cartoons sparked such a reaction has more to do with the tensions that were already there between the Islamic world and the West, and because in the age of the Internet, what goes on anywhere in the world is heard and seen everywhere."
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Not to mention by Gary Larson...
Sounds like some Museums are about to be fire-bombed.
" Muhammad has been portrayed in the work of revered Muslim artists and of such Western figures as William Blake, Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali"
To be fair some of the Western representations showed Mohammed in hell with his entrails hanging out so that's probably not the best example.
I like the way the Wash Times cropped out of that pic the giant sword the Big Mu is holding.
So the media knew the Muslim world would be enraged at the Abu Graib pictures and published them anyway since the outrage would be directed at our soldiers.
And now the media won't publish cartoons because the Muslim outrage would be directed at them. The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards.
This moslem rage is a put up job.
"The prophet of Islam, Muhammad (c.570-632) can be seen on the North Wall Frieze in the Supreme Court courtroom, in Washington DC. Liz O. Baylen (THE WASHINGTON TIMES)"
Wait a sec... so in the us supreme court building theres a picture of Muhammad - but the ACLU has never sued to have it removed???
There's a huge wall of a cathedral in Bologna that has a depiction of the levels of hell. It was painted in the 1400s. Down at one of the lower levels is Mohammed. Naturally, that cathedral has been the subject of bomb threats.
You'd think this would really piss off the Muslims.
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I'm particularly fond of that 15th c. fresco of Mohammed being cast into the flames of hell:
Seems to me they're in a rage about one thing or another most of the time.
Thanks for posting that frescoe. I love it. I believe that if there is a Hell, Mohammed is there. He was a cruel, barbarous man who enslaved women and created a cult that promotes evil to this very day. Maybe the man who caused the most evil in history. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were more evil, but their evil influence lasted only a few decades.
Excellent. The most apt depiciton of this monster.
Thanks for posting.
If the moslems in Italy have their way, this fresco will be blown to kingdom come, same as the taliban did to the ancient statues of Buddha in Afghanistan.
They were photographs?
Mohammed is seated at the right hand of the Devil. His entrails are intact. No photos please. IMHO.
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