Friday, February 03, 2006

Have you bought your Danish cheese yet? I got a chunk of Denmark's Finest Havarti yesterday, and I'm quite glad I did. Support free speech and Western civilization by eating cheese: if only all moral acts were this much fun! Rosenborg Blue is another option you should have no trouble finding at the average supermarket.

This article, on MSN of all places, contains a link which allows to see the scandalous affront to the Religion of Peace. They display it too small to make out details or read most of the text, but it hardly seems on the level of say, a Alcoran in a jar of urine. Gosh, maybe violence is the answer.

Also, it's nonsense that images of the Prophet are categorically taboo in Islam (link via Cronaca). Mohammad showed up in art from Islam's much-vaunted Golden Age; things have fallen far in recent centuries.

He often appears with veiled face, as in this Turkish painting:

There are many pictures of him riding the Buraq:

And here he is full-faced:

The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, Iran (Tabriz), c. AD 1314-15/AH 714