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Wikipedia To Enraged Muslims: Get Bent

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Wikipedia's article on Muhammad has a section about historical depictions of him. That section has images of some ancient murals that, well, depict him. This is obviously an outrage of such gravity that it requires a worldwide expression of rage. The FOX story has a broad overview, but the real fun is on the Wikipedia talk page for the controversy:

PLEASE REMOVE ALL THE PICTURES OF MUHAMMAD(PBUH). ISLAM DOESN'T ALLOW THIS THANKS It is simply unacceptable for a Muslim to let anyone draw and publish images of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). By publishing the hand drawn images of our Prophet on Wikipedia, you are humiliating 1.7 Billion Muslims in the world. No law in the whole world allow you to humiliate the feelings of even a single person. So please remove these images to stop humiliating all the Muslims across the world... please remove the pic of Muhammad (PBUH), as islam donot give the permission of doing this.... This is a request from all the Muslims that please remove the picture of Muhammad (P.B.U.H) from this website because it is not allowed in Islam.

Here's the thing though. Using seething, petulant rage to cow Western civilization into submission - that's one thing. Trying to deface a Wikipedia page is very much another:

Important notice: Prior discussion has determined that pictures of Muhammad will not be removed from this article, and removal of pictures without discussion at Talk:Muhammad/images will be reverted. If you find these images offensive, it is possible to configure your browser not to display them; for instructions, see the FAQ.

The editors got so sick of dealing with hordes of seething whiners - complaining about images, the lack of "peace be upon him", the "Western" tone of the article - that they set up a FAQ to refer everyone to. Their advice for Muslims who don't want to see images of Muhammad? Set your browser so you can browse without images. Awesome.

Also awesome: demanding the removal of a Muslim mural of Muhammad because Muslims quite simply don't make images of Muhammad.

References:
* Muslims Protest Wikipedia Images of Muhammad [FOX News]
* Talk:Muhammad/images [Wikipedia]
* Talk:Muhammad [Wikipedia]
* Talk:Muhammad/FAQ [Wikipedia]

Previously:
* The Widespread Duplicity of Arab Intellectualism
* Suicide Belt Explodes While Bomber's Son is Playing With It
* UC Irvine Muslims Can't Decide Between Seething Resentment and Fantasies Of Global Conquest [Video]

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