If you are a typical Muslim apologist, I know what you are going to say, "Bernie, that is racist, and bigoted anti-Muslim illustration." Actually, it's a sketch by Iranian-born, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Hamid Bahrami now living in the US (1).

Humor aside, Islam does have a very prudish view of Adam and Eve. Here is an Islamic work of the 1800s shows Adam and Eve standing next to the Tree of Knowledge.

In 2007 a Pakistani magazine published 'half-naked' pictures of Adam and Eve which drew a fatwa of death from the local clergy (2).

That's revealing: Islamists may maim, torture, or kill but no fatwas are issued unless one depicts half-naked bodies! Why isn't there a fatwa of death against Osam Bin Laden? Haven't we been told by moderate Muslims that OBL has hijacked their religion? Haven't we been told that Bin Laden has perverted the teachings of Islam? Isn't the perversion of Islam a blasphemy against Allah? Doesn't that deserve a fatwa of death?

Ah, what the hell, Muslims are just pulling our chain. In their hearts they do not truly disavow the actions of Osama Bin Laden.


But back to Adam & Eve: Here's how they looked in Mongol Iran, 1294-99

Michaelangelo knew how Adam & Eve really looked like:

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(1):

Hameed Bahrami Website, Hamid Bahrami Bio

Awards: Animation Awards 2004 The best TV commercial prize for Sahel Tuna in The 4th International Tehran Animation Festival. (Bamdad Animation Studio) 2004 The best animated short film for From Apple to Apple in The 4th International Tehran Animation Festival. (Bamdad Animation Studio) 2004 The best script prize for Plato in The 4th International Tehran Animation Festival. (Bamdad Animation Studio) 2003 The best short film prize for Happy New Year in The 1st Dubai Ibda Awards Festival. (Bamdad Animation Studio) 2003 The best animated film prize for From Apple to Apple in The 3rd Emirates Film Competition. (Bamdad Animation Studio)

Cartoon Awards
2004 The 2nd prize of the Tehran International Cartoon Contest in the Civil Complexities subject.
2002 The silver medal of the 1st International Cartoon Biennale of UAE, Dubai.
2001 The 1st prize of the 1st International Cartoon Exhibition of UNESCO in the subject of Ozone Protection, Tehran.
1999 Selected by the International Cartoon Exhibition of Ankara.
1999 The 3rd prize of Cartoon Exhibition of ministry of house and urbanization in the Home subject.
1997 The 2nd prize of International Cartoon Exhibition of UNICEF in the Man and Nature subject , Tehran.
1997 The 2nd prize of the 3rd International Cartoon Biennale of Tehran in the Free subject.
1996 The bronze medal of the International Cartoon Exhibition of Yomiuri Shim bun, Tokyo, Japan.
1995 The 1st prize of the 2nd International Cartoon Biennale of Tehran in the Book subject.
1994 The 1st prize of National Cartoon Exhibition of international Tehran fair book in the Pen subject, Tehran.

(2):

Hindu Jagruti News, Adam-Eve pictures attract Islamists' ire in Pak

Islamabad: Publication of 'half-naked' pictures of Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa, considered the first creations of God, by a Pakistani magazine has attracted the ire of a section of the clergy who has demanded death to its owners and publishers.

A fatwa was issued against the publication by Maulana Abdul Aziz of the Lal Masjid here who has in the recent past hit headlines for the capture of a girls' seminary run in his complex for several weeks and an edict against the country's Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar.

In his Friday sermon, Aziz said the owners and publishers of the monthly magazine Octane had committed blasphemy of the first prophet of Allah Almighty - Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa - by publishing their half naked images in its latest issue.