As an addendum to yesterday's post, it seems the anger of many Muslims was not as a result of the irreverent cartoon portrayals of the Prophet, but at the fact that there were any portrayals at all. Strict Islamic law apparently forbids any depiction of any living thing. A bit extreme, you might think, until that is you discover (probably like me, with considerable surprise) that Christians should be subject to the same stricture. Good Christians would agree that they should live their lives according to the Commandments, and the second of them states -
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Interesting, eh....?
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