User talk:Dinotles

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Muhammad
When you added your comment to Talk:Muhammad, you (mistakenly?) removed another person's comment as well. Also, you made the edit in the middle of an ongoing conversation. It's best if you put your new comment at the end of that thread; it's required that you not remove anyone else's comment. Feel free to re-add your comment; however, it won't really mean much since consensus on that article is firmly set to keep the pictures in the article. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:56, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Some points to consider: The reasons to keep the images in the article are numerous. Rational arguments to remove them will be considered (see the debates on Talk:Muhammad/Images), and images have been removed in the past based on rational arguments. Religious arguments to remove them will never succeed, because Wikipedia is a secular project. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Read Talk:Muhammad/FAQ, which addresses most of your objections.
 * Read Depictions of Muhammad, which clearly explains that the prohibition about images is not universal among Muslims.
 * Note that the Qur'an does not prohibit these images, and the Qur'an also says that anything not prohibited is permitted.
 * The images are respectful and are part of the history of Islamic art, created by Muslims in some cases.
 * The Persian Wikipedia article on Muhammad has many of the same images. That Wiki is presumably edited by Muslims who clearly have no objection to the images.
 * Finally, there's the issue of idolatry. It seems idolatrous to single out Muhammad for special treatment in the case of images.