Islamic art

Did you know that in 1997, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that part of a 1930s frieze in the main chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. be sandblasted into oblivion, on the grounds that Islam prohibits representations Mohammed? Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected CAIR’s pressure. Did you know that back in 1955, a campaign to censor a Mohammed statue in another American court building was successful? The New York City-based courthouse of the Appellate Division, First Department of the New York State Supreme Court, which was built in 1902, featured on its roof balustrade an