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Nor is it a celebration of Islamic values.
I dont care what wikipidia is - I know it CANNOT be an authority on Muslims and Muhammad. It should not show up on top of the search engine when it is MERELY a website with definitions and articles written by people on the internet. There are other websites primarily devoted to this topic that should show up on top because they are more relevant.
They CLAIM to be an Encyclopedia, but I dispute this - (the search engines though do not). What if 100 other people decide to put up their own Wikis? WHy should this one wiki be given preference - which means essentially the opinion of the moderators on that site are of more value.
What I like to know is are they other Encyclopedia printed or otherwise that had the same problem . Why is Wiki the target here? You mean to say this 'historical interest' has never been printed before in other reference books?
At the very least they need to add information on why the pictures do offend (some or most) Muslims not just put up pictures like that.
I don't think Wiki should censor itself - If it wants to be taken seriously it needs to conduct itself (it meaning the moderators) like a true source of information not like some spam website with infinite doorway pages to its site.
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n summation, why should Wikipedia censor itself according to the diktats of Muslims?
You would think that the majority of Muslims would be able to contribute to the site , no?
I don't think that anyone can dictate to a website what content should be up.
However I would hope people have the commonsense to realize that Wiki is not a neutral site nor a legit source of information and more like a site with flame wars just like a public forum.
By the way - I do not care if I offend Muslims or anyone else for that matter, but I am trying to be neutral here.
To me a much more blatant violation of free speech is Google swaying under pressure to add an idiotic note (and somehow push the legitimate entry to #2) when you type Jew into google. The #2 entry is a 'hate' site, but it devoted entirely to that topic. Notice that wikipidia comes up first. Apparently they are the authority on both jews and muslims and somehow manage to offend muslims without offending jews (which is even easier to do actually if you think about it) .