5. There's actually a wide spectrum of attitudes within Islam on the question of depicting Mohammed.
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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.
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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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8. Historians of religion might have thoughts on this, but iconoclasm tends to surge in moments of contact/identity formation.
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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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10. Worth pondering that radical Islamic iconoclasm directed not just at Mohammed images: remember Taliban destruction of Buddha statues
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11. One way to think about this is to compare the generic features of religious art with satirical cartooning.
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12. Religious art, cross-culturally I think, has certain properties: it's idealizing, elevating, earnest, etc.
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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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14. Satire, whatever it's ideological intent, is a powerful secularizing agent: it's message is that "nothing is sacred."
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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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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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17. History of satire & cartooning has many figures who continue to do what they're told they can't do: Lenny Bruce syndrome
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