As certain Danish cartoonists can attest, drawings or other visual representations of Muhammad are considered to be an offense punishable by death among the more violent fringe strains of Islam. Why isn't writing about Muhammad likewise considered to be offensive? Writing began as illustration, after all, and as Lesley Hazleton proves on the first page of The First Muslim (Riverhead Books, $27.95), the right author can make a written description just as evocative as an editorial cartoon:
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