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The Arabic
name "Mohammed" has over the years been
transliterated into Western languages with several
different spellings -- some of which you'll encounter
below -- including Mahomet, Muhammad, and
Mohamed |
Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international
furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark
and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans
are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech
and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism
and fear.
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.
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