Over the centuries there have been countless hundreds of images of Mohammed created 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.
Norwegian scientist Ingvild Flaskerud traveled to Iran in 1999 and purchased several iconic pictures of Mohammed sold openly on the street. Even though the Islamic regime in Iran strictly forbids creating, selling or owning such images, nothing was done to either the artist or the buyer, who was able to take them out of the country without any problems. So why the insanity now?
Around the end of the 14th Century, Mustafa son of Yusuf from Erzurum wrote the book Siyer-i Nebi, in which the life of the Muslim Prophet was invoked and the subject made into an epic.
The Work is illustrated.
Norwegian scientist Ingvild Flaskerud traveled to Iran in 1999 and purchased several iconic pictures of Mohammed sold openly on the street. Even though the Islamic regime in Iran strictly forbids creating, selling or owning such images, nothing was done to either the artist or the buyer, who was able to take them out of the country without any problems. So why the insanity now?
Around the end of the 14th Century, Mustafa son of Yusuf from Erzurum wrote the book Siyer-i Nebi, in which the life of the Muslim Prophet was invoked and the subject made into an epic.
The Work is illustrated.
