On 17/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I can't think of a search term that is going to reveal the extent of a certain opinion within the Muslim community. For a start, the more extreme a view is, the more people are going to talk about it, so you are naturally going to find disproportionately more cases of the extreme view in a search than the less extreme view. It's possible to compensate for that, but I have no idea what kind of modifier to use.
I started simply googling on 'Muhammad', since that's the name of the article.
The only extreme view I found was a parody site called 'dressup muhammad', which I disregarded.
I found 2 examples of Western encyclopedias, both of which had a single veiled image, and no other examples of images of Muhammad in the first two dozen hits that were applicable (ignoring hits that were unrelated, Muhammad Ali for example).
Quite frankly it was rather boring, it looked like I would have had to go a *long* way down to find an image or any sign of contentiousness at all.