Prophet Portraits

A piece in the March 3 issue of The Week states that depictions of the Prophet Mohammed are forbidden in Islam according to Paul Richard of the Washington Post. He believes that this is why the Danish cartoons have enraged Muslims. He states, however, that no ban is explicit in the Koran. For an explicit ban he tells readers to look in the Book of Exodus: man must not make "any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth below."