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• Religion, churches, secularism: History

  On the diversity of Islam: British Museums concealed the existence of devotional images of prophet Muhammad

  25 January 2015, by BAILEY Ivan, BLAKE Trevor, GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma

  V&A in row over self-censorship after Muhammad image is taken down
  Poster removed from museum website – but scholars of Islamic art fear ‘terrible loss for shared global heritage’
  Warning: this article contains the image of the prophet Muhammad, which some may find offensive.
  The Victoria (...)

• Religion, churches, secularism: History

  Islam: The green banner of Mohamed and the expansion of world trade

  10 December 2009, by BATOU Jean

  “A century after the date when Muhammad, an obscure camel driver, had begun to gather around him in his house a few poor Meccans, his successors dominated the approaches of the Loire and the lands beyond the Indus, from Poitiers to Samarkand”. ... from now on, Islam – which was then the ideology (...)