On 17/02/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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.
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-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.