Muslims demand Wikipedia censorship
Wikipedia has become the latest target for Muslims seeking to impose their sensitivities on everyone else. These people have taken offence (via) to the online encyclopaedia’s article on Muhammed, specifically the fact that the article includes pictures taken from medieval manuscripts.
In addition to a lot of “similar sounding, similar looking e-mails”, an online petition has been started demanding that the pictures be removed. At the time of writing, the petition has 120,000 signatures, although many of them are anonymous – which rather defeats the point of a petition.
According to the article’s Talk Page:
Prior discussion has determined that pictures of Muhammad will not be removed from this article, and removal of pictures without discussion at Talk:Muhammad/images will be reverted. If you find these images offensive, it is possible to configure your browser not to display them.
The site has also set up a FAQ page which points out, reasonably enough, that “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that strives to represent all topics from a neutral point of view, and therefore Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group.”
0 comments Saturday 09 Feb 2008 | Paul | World