Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Culture clash - Maybe not
Perhaps things are not exactly as the media has reported so far...
Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion according to AMIR TAHERI in the Wall Street Opinion Journal:
"The Muslim Brotherhood's position, put by one of its younger militants, Tariq Ramadan--who is, strangely enough, also an adviser to the British home secretary--can be summed up as follows: It is against Islamic principles to represent by imagery not only Muhammad but all the prophets of Islam; and the Muslim world is not used to laughing at religion. Both claims, however, are false."
"The claim that the ban on depicting Muhammad and other prophets is an absolute principle of Islam is also refuted by history. Many portraits of Muhammad have been drawn by Muslim artists, often commissioned by Muslim rulers. There is no space here to provide an exhaustive list, but these are some of the most famous:..."
