A professor fired to have showed images of Mohammed to a warned public....

[Jacob]

It's great to have aspirations

[viper37]

Most of all, I am offended as a Muslim[/ur]

Don't know if it was posted, but the pov of a muslim professor criticizing the university for acknowledging the extremists.

[Sheilbh]

On Protestant and Islamic iconoclasm - really interesting Empire podcast today on the Turks and the Tudors.

Lots of interesting stuff/figures - but particularly struck by a brief detour on how Protestant England positioned itself as similarly iconoclastic, just like Muslims, in opposition to idolatrous Catholic Europe.

[Josquius]

On Protestant and Islamic iconoclasm - really interesting Empire podcast today on the Turks and the Tudors.

Lots of interesting stuff/figures - but particularly struck by a brief detour on how Protestant England positioned itself as similarly iconoclastic, just like Muslims, in opposition to idolatrous Catholic Europe.

Isn't that pretty well known as one of the Calvinists big things?
What was new in the podcast?- they spun this to show how they were similar to the Ottomans hence lets be friends?
Did King Edward come during a rare spell of Turkish-French enmity?