Theological question:You may recall that in 1996, somebody discovered a cinnamon bun that looked a lot like Mother Teresa. It was given the name Nun Bun
TM (aka the Immaculate Confection
TM) and put on display at the
Bongo Java coffee shop where it remained until it was stolen Christmas Day 2005. Generally speaking, nobody took offense with the discovery and promotion of the Nun Bun.
Now, in light of the recent controversy over the cartoons, what would happen if somebody discovered a pastry, a
Danish perhaps, that looked like the prophet Mohammed? (Or at least one's conception of Mohammed, since nobody knows what he looked like.) It wouldn't be a deliberate representation like that an illustrator or cartoonist would make. It would be a natural occurrence, and therefore not in violation of the Koran's injunction against a person "making" an image.
Perhaps if such a confection were to emerge from a baker's oven, we could stop arguing over the cartoons and, instead, focus on important messages found in rolls of dough (or failing that, the entrails of sacrificed animals).
posted by Quiddity at 2/08/2006 12:47:00 PM
Spot on. Spot on.
They don't call them Danishes anymore in Iran, now they are called Freedom Pastries or Islamic Pastries or something like that.
They've got the same nuts there as we have here.
"[I]mportant messages found in rolls of dough"? I thought that was Tom DeLay's and Jack Abramoff's department...
