Images of the prophet Muhammad's fa...

Images of the prophet Muhammad's face are excessively rare in Islamic art. If Muhammad is depicted at all, his face is oftentimes obscured.

But it was not the caricature of Muhammad through a Danish cartoonist that triggered declare s across the Muslim world in fresh days. It was the way in which the prophet was depicted, wearing a turban that appeared to be a bomb

"It's not just that it was an image," said Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, a professor of Islamic studies at house of god University. "It was that Muhammad was portrayed as a terrorist."

To be assured extremists eager to portray the West as anti-Islamic have inciteed on the protests. But the outrage also throw backs the huge cultural chasm between the Muslim world and the secular West, where freedom of expression is tolerated, on the same level if the ideas expressed are blasphemous.

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