[Foundation-l] Boycott in ace at wiki

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 22:02:25 UTC 2010


On 16 July 2010 22:57, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> The prohibition against illustrating Mohammed in (some?) muslim
> culture is no more a "personal opinion" than a decision we would make
> not to show, for example, certain sexual imagery or images of
> violence; there's certainly imagery in those realms that wouldn't be
> illegal to show but the community would agree that we shouldn't.


It turns out this is actually quite historically inaccurate. I
understand there is a popular online encyclopedia with an extensive
article on the topic, enumerating and describing the various points of
view on the topic.


- d.



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