Islam has a rich history of depicting Muhammad
Journalists at LeMan are in fear for their lives after the Turkish satirical magazine published cartoons appearing to depict the Prophet Muhammad. The publication’s editor-in-chief Tuncay Akgun denied that the picture showed Muhammad, but his pleas have fallen on deaf ears. A mob gathered outside the magazine’s office in Istanbul on Monday. In the days since, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed the cartoon as a ‘vile provocation’, and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan described the image as an ‘immoral…attack against our Prophet’. But LeMan‘s critics appear to be blind to Islam’s rich tradition of depicting Muhammad. The idea of a categorical ban on drawings of Muhammad appears to be
