4. On the religious end of things, the question of iconophobia and aniconism is more complex than commonly realized.
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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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@primatemachine Not like a good liberal, like a good sane person. I don't see Islam as homogenous.4 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
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@HeerJeet@primatemachine Islam may not be homogenous, but it IS all dangerous. Seditiously so.#tcot1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@PhillipMcAllist @primatemachine Good-bye.
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