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|5.19.06 @ 4:38PM|#
As a defense against idolatry, I would think that rare artifacts would be more dangerous than ubiquitous use.
I think it is probably closer there being one set of rules for the elites and the rest can't handle it.
|5.19.06 @ 5:27PM|#
As a defense against idolatry, I would think that rare artifacts would be more dangerous than ubiquitous use.
I think it is probably closer there being one set of rules for the elites and the rest can't handle it.
|5.19.06 @ 5:29PM|#
Crud, I refreshed after the error and still, nothing.. Oh well, I tried.
|5.19.06 @ 6:42PM|#
Related...
http://www.despardes.com/Diaspora/2006/20060510-punk-meets-islam.htm
|5.19.06 @ 6:43PM|#
And the whole statement about Christians technically banning images... not broadly true...just can't worship them.
Tim Cavanaugh|5.19.06 @ 9:34PM|#
Christians don't ban images because they don't do what their sacred scrolls tell them to do.
|5.20.06 @ 12:47AM|#
MainStreamMan,
They sound like a Muslim Gogol Bordello. Rawk!
Godfrey|5.20.06 @ 1:13AM|#
Tim:
"Christians don't ban images because they don't do what their sacred scrolls tell them to do."
Actually, Christians *do* obey their magic scrolls; they just don't obey them all the time. And given some of the Great Pixie's commandments, that's probably a good thing.
|5.20.06 @ 1:22AM|#
The key, says Florida State University art historian Cynthia Hahn, is in the context. �Almost all these images are from manuscripts,� says Hahn. �That�s a very private, elite, expensive medium, which the average guy would never see. Part of the reaction to the cartoons was that they were in a newspaper, which is such a public forum.�
I happen to be a Muslim and have no intention to start some kind of jihad here but this has to be the most ridiculous explanation I have ever heard abt the cartoon controversy.
These Persian prints and some others are widely available in Iran and other central Asian countries.
The issue was not his images. It was the way he was portrayed and the drawings made him look like some bloodthirsty caricature of Osama bin Laden or a terrorist. I doubt that I can ever support the violent reaction of some Muslims in the Middle East but I still do think that if the Danish newspaper had run these images instead of those cartoons, nobody would have cared abt them.
I doubt that there is going to be any fatwa against the Reason.com for printing these images.
Godfrey|5.20.06 @ 1:40AM|#
...the drawings made him look like some bloodthirsty caricature of Osama bin Laden or a terrorist.
Actually, it's his followers that make Mohammed look like a bloodthirsty caricature. The cartoons are editorial; they merely reflect what the "religion of peace" has become in the eyes of the rest of the world.
We would all be better off without prophets and messiahs. Then people would have to resort to good old-fashioned cognition to get things done.
God forbid.