Delirium wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
You are right that putting insulting pictures on Wikipedia was a bad idea. Why so many of our users have a blind spot regarding this issue I don't know, but there is a consensus that the pictures ought to be shown.
It's hardly the case that pictures insulting to Muslims are being singled out for inclusion on Wikipedia. I'm not sure if anyone still remembers, but there was a bit of an uproar in the United States a few years ago about anti-Christian artwork, and we have a photo of the piece that triggered that uproar included in the article, [[Piss Christ]].
IMHO you are comparing apples with oranges:
Serrano, who created this photograph, considers his work religious, not sacrilegious (or anti-Christian). He thinks, that the best place for that image is a church and states, that it had been shown in an actual church in Marseilles.
Do you think, that the cartoons would ever be shown in a mosque?
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2002/09/shooting_the_k... http://www.slate.com/id/74144/