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Wikipedia Given Grief over Muhammad PicturesApparently it's disrespectful to see them |
By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor
7th of February 2008, 11:08 GMT
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Religion has dragged behind it many bloody wars for as long as history can count and it's most definitely not going to stop now. With time, though, man has increasingly become more rational and has begun to value life over everything else. The wars fought
today don't involve capes and medieval swords, but are more in the area of words and logical arguments, leaving behind the dark times of "I love my god and that's why you must die, heretic!"
Wikipedia has received increasing numbers of emails over the article relating to Muhammad and they all complained about the pictures that accompany it and depict the Prophet as a human being. The images, mostly paintings from manuscripts dating back to the Middle Ages, show various aspects of Muhammad's life and work.
The wave of protest was met by Wikipedia with a firm but polite answer, that it would stand its ground in this matter and not budge an inch, because "Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group," as its FAQ page writes. That's a pretty good mark of courage to face one of the biggest religions in the world of the followers. "We have been noticing a lot more similar sounding, similar looking e-mails beginning mid-January," Jay Walsh, spokesman for the San Francisco-based foundation, said.
Opinions over the matter have rallied into an online petition, signed so far by nigh 80,000 people, most of which decided to remain anonymous. Some of the comments following it were very straight to the point, like Saadia Bukhari's, who said that "It's totally unacceptable to print the prophet's picture. […] It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately."
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| Comment #1 by: khalil on 07 Feb 2008, 11:57 GMT |  reply to this comment | Islam Religion is not bloody Religion
Read about Islam not about Muslims
Islam: this word in Arabic comes from Peace not blood...
If Islam is bloody Religion then what about Israel, everyday they
kill innocent people in Palestine...and i don't hear anything about
bloody Israel...in the last five years they kill more than 5000 including children, women... |
| Comment #2 by: Siddrah on 17 Feb 2008, 06:14 GMT | reply to this comment | I wish the person who draw this cartoon understand the soul of islam. He must be the enemy of the Islam. I suggest him to read about Hazrat muhammad (P.B.U.H). Hazrat Muhammad (p.b.u.h) is the person whose personality is ideal and source of inspiration for most of teh muslims as well as non muslim. I dont know what I do when I saw that idiot person. I pray to ALLAH that Allah blessed him with sense of rightness and wrong .
He must appologize from muslims. |
| Comment #3 by: nuruddin on 23 Feb 2008, 13:51 GMT | reply to this comment | This is exactly not our beloved prophet muhammad (PBUH), the person that painted this picture should've really done research about islam before doing it.
May allah give guidance to the painter and everyone that is involved ...
amin............ |
| Comment #4 by: Asma Jabbar on 25 Feb 2008, 15:42 GMT | reply to this comment | Stop all these nonsense! We Muslims never insult other religions. Why can't this person understand that by doing these stupid things they can't stop us. Our beloved brothers of Islam will fight back and Inshallah Allah will guide and help them to destroy all the kuffar. It is hard to look at those pictures but you can't divert our Mujahideens attention from the biggest issues. So stop fooling around like nuts |
| Comment #5 by: ali on 21 Mar 2008, 18:10 GMT | reply to this comment | i think that wikipedia should not show the pic,s ph prophit its prohabite in islam , we should recpecccct the treties of all the religion .....
they should opologize.... |
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