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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like everyone tempted to show a picture of Mohammad knows they're being inflammatory. For them, this is a bug rather than a feature. I don't believe there is an ignorance crisis.

The crisis is one of jerkiness. Whether or not you agree it should be offensive, understand that it is. Only jerks deliberately offend in this way.

Is violent retaliation appropriate? I think not, but we all need to understand that the action can be understood as deeply offensive and just not do it in the first place.

Signed, traditional Jew who thinks a lot of ultra-secular and progressive faith Americans and Europeans have a bizarre blind spot when it comes to respecting the traditions of groups that have traditions.[/quote]

Look I understand there is a history of right-wing jerkiness about such things, but this was an academic setting and there were warnings given. If you can’t study historical items in a history class, for goodness sake where can you study them?  What about a class devoted to Nazi propaganda, where the material to be studied is totally offensive. But it’s important to know these things exist(ed). Historians research and think about and look at offensive things every single day, because history is full of offense. 
At any rate, the Muslim artist who made this particular artwork for a Muslim patron did not think it was offensive. That there are different visual traditions within Islamic culture is surely important to know for an art history class. [/quote]

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