My eye was suitably caught by a news item the other day that said the Pakistani government had ordered a number of websites to made unreachable to web surfers because they contained the graven images of the Profit(sic) Muhammed which the Danish papers published recently (and by recently I mean in September last year) whcih caused storms of protest recently (and by recently I mean months after it happened - kneejerk reaction or what??).
Apparently under Muslim law it's illegal to publish pictures of this bloke which raises the question - how do they know it's him if no-one's ever seen a picture of him? Artists could be making it all up and no-one would ever know - it's like showing someone a picture of PeeWee Herman and claiming it's Tony Blair (major difference: PeeWee Herman jerks off over small children, Mr Blair jerks off over everyone - I suppose you could say he's an equal opportunities jerker - how very Labour Party ...).
Still, in an effort to see how far this imaging lunacy goes, on the right is a picture of Muhammed in the dark with all the lights off.
You can clearly see him in the center of the picture wearing black robes and a black turban - am I now guilty of something, somewhere ?
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