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- 15 February, 2006 -
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Daniel Pulliam from the blog GetReligion
has written an interesting piece about why US newspapers respect Muslim’s wishes about using images of Muhammed, but ignore other religion’s wishes about displaying their sacred images in a less than perfect light.
In particular he notes that the US media has illustrated stories of the Muslim riots in the Middle East and Asia with paintings of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and anti-semetic caricutures while not displaying the cartoon that the riots are all up in arms about because they do not want to offend Muslims.
“It all comes down to the Fatwa, doesn’t it? Christians don’t issue them, Muslims do,” Pulliam concludes.
