You can’t draw Mohammad
You know. I think it’s time somebody took that little art project that stirred controversy in New York City in the last half of that weirdly distant decade of the 1990s, where the Virgin Mary was covered in elephant feces and Rudy Giuliani raised a stink (these were the political battles you associated with Rudy Giuliani before 9/11 transformed everyone)…
… replace the Virgin Mary with the image of Mohammad. Granted, nerves are raw as they can get right now, what with the American Conquest of some land in Muslim land, but come to think of it — is there any way I can offend Satanists? (Probably not, as their whole religious belief is a ruse and simply based on offending Christianity… case in point: they will change their magic number of 666.)
What’s the Commandment? No false idols. Take it to mean “No image of our Dearest Religious Leaders”. Some Christian sects take it dead seriously — but then you see the Russian Orthodox Church selling icons by the baleful and the Catholic Church sticks images of Jesus on the Cross.
I guess the upshoot for Islam is that it’s helped create a purely ornamental batch of artwork. The downshoot is that when someone mocks their dear Leader, and worse still — (GASP) — Create a likeness of Mohammad — riots erupt. I hear that some somewhat moderate Muslims went to demonstrations, opposing the Western hostilities that the cartoons show us — and were aghast to see that they were taken over by the extremists. Those things happen all over the place, I guess.