Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The official reason usually given for the ban on images of Muhammad is that it’s to prevent Muslims from worshipping Muhammad the way most Christians worship Jesus. But the feel of the objection usually seems the opposite of the official reason …

This is such a well argued post. It’s interesting to know that some Islamic associations and public figures have come out in support of the fired academic. Really, though, I despair of people, literally, quite often. They…we…can be so…

For some reason, these last two lines were cut off in the version of this post visible on handheld devices: While this isn’t precisely an “all’s well that ends well story,” the reaction to the incident has been largely heartening, at least so far. Time…

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For whatever it’s worth, I got two off-line responses to this post, one from a retired English professor, the other from a working hospital-based physician. The English professor regarded the post as exactly on target; the physician found it some…