 Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History
The Mohammed Image Archive is a compendium of images that depict Mohammed (the 7th-century founder of Islam), spanning all historical periods, cultures and genres.
The inspiration for this Archive came from the global controversy over the publication of Mohammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and the need for a comprehensive and even-handed look at the wide variety of Mohammed depictions in Islamic and Western societies from the Middle Ages until today. It will remain online as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression. (Please note that the Arabic name "Mohammed" has over the years been transliterated into Western languages with several different spellings -- some of which you'll encounter on this site -- including Mahomet, Muhammad, and Mohamed.)
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This page features a selection of responses emailed by visitors to the Mohammed Image Archive.
Messages from readers offended by the Archive are in the left-hand column.
Messages from readers pleased with the Archive are in the right-hand column.
(All names and email addresses have been abbreviated or removed to maintain privacy.)
You can email the Archive yourself by clicking here. |
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Extreme Mohammed |
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This section of the Mohammed Image Archive is reserved for the most extreme, irreverent and iconoclastic images of Mohammed, most of which were created in the aftermath of the February 2006 cartoon jihad.
The artists represented here have expressed their mockery of and disdain for the Muslim world's violent reaction to the orginal innocuous Danish cartoons by making new Mohammed depictions that are intentionally direspectful and/or obscene, to make the point that freedom of speech in Western societies is unconditional.
***WARNING***: If you are easily offended, or do not want to see disrespectful images of Mohammed, you should stop reading here.
Steve D., the proprietor of this blog, fashioned his own statement about the controversy by Photoshopping one of the Jyllands-Posten drawings onto the rear end of a camel.
(Hat tip: Rant Wraith.)
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Recent Responses to the Controversy |
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The furor over the Danish cartoons has provoked a wide variety of responses from the media and from artists. Several European publications not only reprinted the original cartoons, but published new cartoon portraits of Mohammed as well. Many professional and amateur artists have also been inspired to fashion their own satirical portraits of Mohammed as a statement about freedom of speech. (The contemporary depictions of Mohammed on this page are for the most part respectful, neutral, or at most mildly satirical. To see new Mohammed portraits that are intentionally direspectful and/or obscene, go to the Extreme Mohammed page.)
Filibuster cartoons featured a comic that pointedly exposed the hypocrisy of the Islamic response.
(Hat tip: Ole and Benjamin.)
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The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons |
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The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book. The publication of the images in Jyllands-Posten has been condemned around the Islamic world, and has led to the burning of embassies and a boycott of Denmark by Muslim nations.
Here are the Jyllands-Posten drawings, for the record. Scroll down below the 12 original cartoon images on this page to find additional information about the fake Mohammed images distributed in the Middle East to incite outrage, and a follow-up on the illustrated book that started the fuss:  |
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