[Foundation-l] Wikimania and the Muhammad pix

[Casey Brown]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Finally, I would appreciate that the conference organizers not dismiss
>  something that potentially could affect the safety of conference
>  goers,

We are *definitely* not dismissing it, we have discussed it a few
times already and it's still on our minds and in our mailing list
posts/IRC chats.

>
>  -Dan
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Nada RADY wrote:
>
>  >
>  > Dear all,
>  > I'm Nada, one of the organizing committee in Egypt, and I'd like to
>  > give some comments on the issue brought up here, as I can see some
>  > points are misunderstood from some parties.
>  >
>  > Firstly, I'd like to clarify why there was that 'strong' reaction
>  > towards the pictures being published on Wikipedia's article, it's
>  > just because Prophet Mohamed is considered the most complete human
>  > being ever created and that belief exists at the heart of all
>  > Muslims. Pictures of him mainly when not even close to reality being
>  > drawn by painters ages after he died, is widely rejected among
>  > Muslims (Sunni specifically), for example, I have never seen those
>  > drawings but on the pages of Wikipedia! And I think that major part
>  > of the Egyptian people and Islamic countries will think of the issue
>  > in a much different way than you do see, I hope you got what I mean.
>  >
>  > Here in Egypt, We shall not be expecting any demonstrations before
>  > or even during Wikimania, and we can just assure you that those
>  > circumstances won't harm the event activities or personals. What
>  > have made me say so is our experiences in previous conferences that
>  > may have had much stronger contradictions with Egyptian attitude.
>  >
>  > Finally, I would appreciate that we won't make a big deal of this
>  > issue if we're all looking forward for the success of this
>  > conference, I hope this would be resolved in a civilized way on this
>  > mailing list that reflects good knowledge about Islamic beliefs and
>  > freedom of speech in the same time, which don't contradict at all
>  > with each other if both are understood well.Best Regards,Nada Rady
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