[Foundation-l] Wikimania and the Muhammad pix

[David Gerard]

On 20/02/2008, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:

>  "increase its educational value, null."
> May i disagree on this point? They at least show, i suppose, as some of the
>  illustrations on the Muhammed articles are some centuries old, that the
>  opinion on this subject has varied over the centuries.


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.


- d.