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.
“We have been noticing a lot more similar sounding, similar looking e-mails beginning mid-January,” said Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, which administers the various online encyclopedias in more than 250 languages.
In other words, it's only being raised as a stink by a few people, or a lot less than 80,000. Here's the "offending" image:
Wow, I can totally see why Muslims would be offended by this. I can't wait for those who are "offended" to start rioting in the streets and threatening to cut the heads off of "infidels".
A Frequently Asked Questions page explains the site’s polite but firm refusal to remove the images: “Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group.”
Which is Wikipedia's polite way of saying "fuck you".
That includes ALL groups. If you are "offended" by this picture and you don't want to see it, don't go to Wikipedia. I know it's a simple solution, but when you have simple minded people like easily offended idiots, you have to give them a solution that they can grasp. Otherwise they get confused and start bumping into walls.
Travis
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