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To understand what Palestinian life might look like under Hamas, it's instructive to visit the home of Sheik Hamid al-Bitawi, high above the bustling West Bank town of Nablus. Al-Bitawi sits on the Islamic appeals court in the West Bank, the top court for all family-law...
“The Islamic Middle East seems to not have a wide tolerance for religious critique,” Kavulla said.
Members of the Salient’s staff also accused the Islamic community of hypocrisy for reacting violently to the editorial cartoons, since—the Salient staffers said—there is a history of Islamic art depicting the prophet Muhammad.
Islamic law forbids illustrations of Muhammad, and the nature of the images—one of them depicting Muhammad as a terrorist with a bomb in his turban—has raised ire across the globe.
The president of the Harvard Islamic Society, Khalid M. Yasin ’07, said, “The question here is not about free speech— it’s about respect.”