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The controversial image shows Muhammad receiving his first revelation from the archangel Gabriel. This miniature painting appears in the canonicalwritten in Persian at the outset of the 14th century, one of the most crucial sources on Mongol culture and history.
Nor can I imagine my faith without such poets as Ferdowsi, Sa’di, Hafez and Rumi, although some fundamentalist and ultra-orthodox Muslims frown on them.
Having said that, I must add that I do not believe freedom of speech is absolute. We respect certain invisible red lines for the sake of civility. This is a requirement of our “civilizing process,” as defined by the mid-20th-century German sociologist Norbert Elias.and the Jim Crow images of Black Americans be displayed in a higher-education classroom? They absolutely can, if they are placed in the proper critical context of teaching about the German Holocaust or American white supremacy .
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