Why Islam forbids images of Mohammed – CNN.com

January 8, 2015 islamoyankee

Why Islam forbids images of Mohammed – CNN.com.

In a bitter irony, the sometimes violent attacks against portrayals of the prophet are kind of reverse idol-worship, revering — and killing for — the absence of an image, said Hussein Rashid, a professor of Islamic studies at Hofstra University in New York.

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