A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

benj111 wrote: post #3

Isn't it prohibited to depict any of god's creations in some/many/all Islamic sects? Thus all the interesting geometric patterns. Does that mean that virtually all Western art is islamaphobic? At what point does the demand that Western art doesn't do something that offend Islam itself become westernphobic.

> At what point does the demand that Western art doesn't do something that offend Islam itself become westernphobic.

The standard response is that there can be no such thing as Westernphobia because the West is powerful and Islam is weak, just as there can be no such thing as anti-white racism because whites are powerful and nonwhites are weak.

Re: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

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Post by dec0dedab0de » Sun, Jan 08, 2023, 12:18 PM UTC

If south park gets censored for it, then what chance does anyone else have?

Re: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

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Post by raverbashing » Sun, Jan 08, 2023, 12:19 PM UTC

Proselitizing to religions (and I'm not talking about only one) is one of our moral failures of this past years

Re: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

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Post by thuridas » Sun, Jan 08, 2023, 12:22 PM UTC

tyho wrote: post #4

In Europe she would be likely be dead or in protective custody. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10655679/Teacher-30... https://www.france24.com/en/france/20211015-the-violence-sho...

The response from a caricature vs a respectful historical depiction may be very different.

Remember that in US this happened not a long time ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie