Sunday, February 05, 2006

An Archive of Images

Persian or central Asian illustration showing Mohammed (on the right) preaching.

Via Instapundit:
While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.
This page is an archive of numerous depictions of Mohammed, to serve as a reminder that such imagery has been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages -- and to serve as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

check this one out!
http://www.arabeuropean.org/vision.php