Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized

by Noam Cohen
The New York Times
February 5, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/228/wikipedia-islam-entry-is-criticized

Excerpt:

An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.

In addition to numerous e-mail messages sent to Wikipedia.org, an online petition cites a prohibition in Islam on images of people.

The petition has more than 80,000 "signatures," though many who submitted them to ThePetitionSite.com, remained anonymous.

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