In a message dated 2/23/2008 2:53:57 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, shimgray@gmail.com writes:
I find it surprising that you seem to not notice there are extremist viewpoints demanding the inclusion of these images, as well as extremist viewpoints demanding their removal.>>
No this doesn't represent my point-of-view. My point-of-view is, we have images of each major religious figure. That is standard, consistent, and neutral, from *our internal* point-of-view. That point has been made clear cross-wiki, it's not new. In general, we add images to any article, we are encouraged to do so because readers like images.
The *extremists for*, are arguing, that images are standard, helpful, and informative. That we include them, regardless of whether they are photographs, paintings or drawings. That they do not necessarily represent the actual truth of what a person looked like.
The *extremists against* are arguing from the point of their own religious dogma, asking us to support that dogma. They are, in general, only here to argue against the images, and have very little to no edits in other articles.
Will Johnson
What you say is not true. I am not a Muslim; I simply counsel avoiding offense. I have about 20,000 edits, very few to do with Islam.
Fred