ABOVE: This is not a depction of the Prophet Mohammed carved in stone on the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court. We repeat, you are not seeing this. This is all a dream.

We don’t want any trouble, OK? We just want to make our little post on this article from the Washington Times today about the fact that many museums and libraries contain artworks depicting the Prophet Mohammed, and no one has so far burned them down. Rodin, Dali, Blake, they have all at one time portrayed Mohammed in their work, albeit not in the deliberately provocative manner the European press has done with its crop of cartoons.

There is a stone carving of Mohammed in the frieze adorning the chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court, apparently (as not seen above, right?), and miniature carvings of the Prophet were not uncommon in 14th and 15th century Persia, where mystics carved them with obscured features so as to make them useless as idols. These things are now found with some regularity in larger museums, so the current furore over the infamous Danish cartoons is, as is so often the case, not over what was said, but how they said it. After all, if the Supreme Court can get away with it, it can’t be that badass.

LINK: Washington Times > Muhammad’s image subject of art in past