Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.


In addition to numerous e-mail messages sent to Wikipedia.org, an online petition cites a prohibition in Islam on images of people.


The petition has more than 80,000 “signatures,” though many who submitted them to ThePetitionSite.com, remained anonymous.


nytimes

1 comment:

  1. Maybe those who complained just didn't like the sandals Mohammed was portrayed as wearing.

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