On 28/05/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org 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]].
...and, indeed, this image has been used in a sustained vandalism campaign recently.
For the record, info-en has receieved complaints about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, but it has also - at least, since the in-the-news-controversy died down - recieved about as many complaints that I've noticed about the fact that our article on Bahá'u'lláh includes a picture of him.