We know what Jesus looked like. We've seen countless paintings of Him, a tall handsome Swede with brilliant blue eyes, but what did Muhammad look like?
That's hard to say. In Muhammad's time there were no photographers, and there are no portrait paintings of him as far as I know. Fortiunately we do have the cover of Charlie Hebdo from last week. It carries a cartoon of a man in what I guess is an Arab turban. He has a long banana nose and a beard, and he's wearing a white thobe. Everyone says that he's Muhammad. I don't know why they say that. He might be any desert Arab in traditional dress. In fact, he might be T. E. Lawrence. There's no way to tell.
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