On 22/02/2008, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/02/2008, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I think a lot of people are losing sight of a very real issue. It is offensive to many to have to placate religious views they don't agree with.
Conversely, it is deeply offensive to me that we are pandering to people who feel "fuck 'em, free speech" is a valid standpoint to hold in a project founded on *neutrality* and *editorial consensus* - we are in danger of just placating the kneejerk political views of a subset of our editors, I guess.
As far as I'm aware, we've had an image of Muhammad's face in our article for many years. A desire to maintain the status quo (which is based upon our NPOV and no censorship policy) and to stand by our policy is not "fuck 'em, free speech". If issues had been raised and we had introduced the image just to get under their skin, you may be right. Ultimately, if someone thinks they would be offended by an image of Muhammad's face, why would they take a look at an article about Muhammad on a non-Muslim website without being careful?