On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:09 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/02/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Chicago Sun Times, February 17, 2008 Sunday Zay N. Smith QT on the Internet; Pg. A26 "Muslims protest Wikipedia images of Muhammad." This means that if you go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad, you will be showing disrespect for religious fundamentalists who want to control what you know and see. So do not go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad. Remember. It is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad that you should not go to.
By the way, I consider this sort of press response fantastically unhelpful to us getting this right.
- d.
Indeed, I've discussed this a bit with Itaqallah and others, and suspect there's absolutely no hope of dealing with the issue until the press can't give two shits anymore.
Cheers WilyD