Offend No One from Planck's Constant

15th century illustration in a copy of a manuscript by Al-Bīrūnī,
depicting Muhammad preaching the Qur'ān in Mecca.
Photo Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world less than 7% have Internet connections. This means that, at most, 100 million Muslims are able to view the Wiki article on Mohammed and even fewer are literate enough in English to actually read the article, yet these few demand that the rest of the world's 1.2 billion Internet users bend to their will and remove the images of the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him.

Digital Journal,
4 Feb 2007,
Muslim, Muhammed, Wikipedia Controversy

A group of Muslims have started a petition against Wikipedia because on the Muhammed entry page, there is a 15th century illustration in a copy of a manuscript by Al-Bīrūnī, depicting Muhammad preaching the Qur'ān in Mecca.

Worse yet is infidels pre-emptively going politically-correct-berserk before Muslims have a chance to be offended: some UK schools dropped the Holocaust from history lessons to possibly avoid offending Muslim pupils and the story of the three little piggies was rejected because "the use of pigs raises cultural issues". Why can't people speak plainly? Here's a translation: "We are afraid to let Muslims read about three little pigs because they may go friggin nuts and blow up the school."

And yes, I know it is not just Muslims but everyone in this world is so God-damn easily offended:

Nursery school children are being taught to sing 'Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep' instead of the traditional rhyme not offend dark skinned students [Daily Mail].

The Seven Dwarfs have been axed from Snow White to avoid offending the vertically challenged [].

The 1982 film ET was digitally remastered in the 2002 reissue: the line "terrorist" was changed to "hippie", and the guns were digitally removed and replaced with walkie-talkies, I suppose not to offend any Muslims in the first case and Liberals in the second by idiot Steven Spielberg [IGN].

But this oversensitivity to everyone's feelings is precisely what Muslims use to their great advantage. Although no one expects some midget to kill a teacher over the Snow White story, there is certainly a valid fear of offending Muslims.

And while there may no longer be Black Sheep, you can bet money that one day Snow White will be Black as Coal.

And for my dear Muslim readers, here are a few images from my collection of Mohammed (peace be upon him):