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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      4. On the religious end of things, the question of iconophobia and aniconism is more complex than commonly realized.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      5. There's actually a wide spectrum of attitudes within Islam on the question of depicting Mohammed.

      2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      6. I.e. there's a tradition within Persian art of depicting the Prophet. And even aniconistic Muslims tolerate such images, although avoid.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      7. Part of the offense is clearly not just image making but satirical intent (and fact satire is being made by the enemy, Westerners)

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      8. Historians of religion might have thoughts on this, but iconoclasm tends to surge in moments of contact/identity formation.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      9. I'm thinking here of the Golden Calf, of iconoclasm in Byzantium, of smashing of stained glass windows in reformation.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      10. Worth pondering that radical Islamic iconoclasm directed not just at Mohammed images: remember Taliban destruction of Buddha statues

      4 replies 6 retweets 17 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      11. One way to think about this is to compare the generic features of religious art with satirical cartooning.

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      12. Religious art, cross-culturally I think, has certain properties: it's idealizing, elevating, earnest, etc.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      13. Satirical art has the opposite aim of religious art: not to elevate but to bring down: to profane both literally & metaphorically

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015

      14. Satire, whatever it's ideological intent, is a powerful secularizing agent: it's message is that "nothing is sacred."

      4:01 PM - 14 Feb 2015 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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          15. The satirist often can't help himself/herself: impulse behind their art is to do that which they are told not to do.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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          16. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw ... to hell with it, I have to draw the Prophet

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        1. Gross old man on Plentyoffish‏ @johnsonpenelope 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Amen to that

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        2. Bravo, machine‏ @nrp_y 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet When a urinal become a "fountain," Western rubrics for profane/reverent went out the window #Groys https://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/1143538156/1143802471_en?curr_issue=1143538156 …

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        3. Bravo, machine‏ @nrp_y 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Re: tolerant aniconisticism, potential for anything being profane/reverent needs consensus, not Authority. Power to the people?

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        1. Conflicts≠Violence‏ @JohanGaltung 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet @liamstack & in so positing the universalist singularism of the secular standpoint is asserted &Voila: The clash of universalisms.

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