On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. I was unaware, until the present discussion,
just how widely
this viewpoint - that images of Muhammad are verboten in all
circumstances - is in fact highly disputed.
[[Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani]], the leading Shia cleric in Iraq,
has specifically endorsed respectful images of Muhammad.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061017223013/http://www.sistani.org/html/eng/m…