On 22/02/2008, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/02/2008, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I personally think that this should be done. Even
if it doesn't solve
the problem entirely, it will help,
1) It wont. and 2)censorship in not an area that this project exists to help in.
it's proportionate and consistent
with the sources for that article, as well as the goals and policies
of the wikipedia.
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"The truth? You can't handle the truth!"
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Feel free to check the references from the [[Muhammad]] article
itself, I did and was unable to find any images at all (except for the
references from the images, but I firmly believe that those were found
by begging the question and searching *for* images).
Here's what you get from a google on "Muhammad" (and ignoring articles
on Muhammad Alli and other off-topic links)
*[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMuhammad&ei=s163R6awDoqqwwG6yuTmCg&usg=AFQjCNFj9QY8eHYruomxP6HrtSNuahw97g&sig2=muvryZtIHcpJjGDWibe3rQ
Wikipedia] - ignored, since not a source
*[http://muhammad.net/j/index.php Prophet Muhammad] - no image
*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Muhammad.html
Jewish Virtual library - Muhammad] - no image
*[http://i-cias.com/e.o/muhammad.htm Looxlexia Encyclopedia Muhammad]
- one veiled image (encyclopedia, not a valid source...)
*[http://www.jamaat.org/islam/Muhammad.html Islam - Meaning and
Message - Muhammad] - no image
*[http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/MUHAM.HTM Islam - Muhammad messenger
of God] - no image
*[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/rodinson.html Maxime Rodinson.
Muhammad.] - no image
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9105853/Muhammad Encyclopedia
Brittanica - Muhammad] - one veiled image (encyclopedia)
*[http://www.pbs.org/muhammad/ PBS - Muhammad legacy of a prophet] - no image
*[http://debate.org.uk/topics/theo/muhammad.htm Muhammad Apologetic
Paper (Joseph Smith) - May 1995] - no image
*[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/prophet/ About the Prophet
Muhammad] - no image
*[http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blfaq_islam_muhammad.htm
Agnosticism / Atheism Islam FAQ Who Was Muhammad?] - no image
*[http://www.theprophetmuhammad.org/ The prophet
Mohammad.org] - no image
*[http://www.fatwa-online.com/aboutislaam/0020224_04.htm Who is
Muhammad?] - no image
*[http://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Life-Based-Earliest-Sources/dp/0892811706
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (Paperback)]- no
image (although one of the books icons had an image that might be gold
silhouette)
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7242258.stm Danish Muhammad
cartoon reprinted] - no image
*[http://www.prophetofislam.com/ Muhammad a-z] no image
*[http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/] - no image
...
(I checked a few dozen more at random, found nothing, got bored)
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geni
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-Ian Woollard
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