Important, and worth sharing: Medieval Islamic art depicting the Prophet: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/the-koran-does-not-forbid-images-of-the-prophet/?utm_content=buffer907f6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.VLB56AbNAN8.twitter … My fav is fig 3 where he’s riding w Jesus
@pseudoerasmus @antonhowes ...he said that in context of charlie hebdo discussion.
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@hbdchick@antonhowes my point is mostly that cartoons widely regarded as blasphemous by Muslims & chances that merely neutral depictions + -
@hbdchick@antonhowes +or positive depict wd have met the same (widespread popular) fury are slim, not that we have many natural experiments -
@pseudoerasmus@antonhowes ...and that we all (westerners + muslims living in the west) need to come to some sort of "consensus" over this. -
@hbdchick@antonhowes UK muslims are fucked up, you should know that -
@pseudoerasmus@antonhowes are they really mostly that goofy?! i hope not. there should be more western muslims like the mayor of rotterdam. -
@hbdchick@pseudoerasmus@antonhowes What do they believe? Start here: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/opinion-polls.htm … -
@futurepundit@hbdchick@antonhowes none of that bears on my pt which is the total IRrelevance of this http://www.newsweek.com/koran-does-not-forbid-images-prophet-298298 … -
@pseudoerasmus@futurepundit@antonhowes well, it's not *completely* irrelevant when Westerners are trying to figure out what Muslims... - 1 more reply
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@hbdchick@antonhowes yes, that is the current wave, especially as salafism more influential than ever before -
@hbdchick@antonhowes BUT depiction of ANY animate figures (humans, animals) relatively infrequent in Islamic art in general, which is why+ -
@hbdchick@antonhowes +Islamic art "comparative advantage" has been in calligraphy, tilework, intricacy of geometric pattern -
@hbdchick@antonhowes of course NOT saying anything new or earth-shattering here
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