On 22/02/2008, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
But to address your specific comment, I don't feel compelled to privilege your taking offense at hiding the images any more than I feel compelled to privilege their taking offense at the presence of the images in any form. As I've said a couple of times along the way, the insistence on including the images in the main article and making sure they are visible isn't neutral; it's anti-Islamic, or at least against some very typical forms thereof. It's not that far off from insisting that it is appropriate to prefer blasphemous depictions of Jesus in his article.
The refusal to compromise our policy for a particular belief is not anti-[that belief]. Any other biography article would contain an image if one were freely available. To suggest that those who wish to maintain this pattern is anti-Islamic is manipulative and provocative.