Wikipedia and the prophet Muhammad

A few netizens have created a petition to ban images from the Prophet Muhammad from the Wikipedia page about Muhammad. The text of this petition is:

In Islam picture of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other Humans are not allowed. But Wikipedia editors are showing illustrations with face illustrated and face is veiled or white washed. But still they are offensive to Muslims. I request all brothers and sisters to sign this petitions so we can tell Wikipedia to respect the religion and remove the illustrations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
specially this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maome.jpg

If you agree, then go here and sign the petition as did many of thousands before you. If you don’t agree, then sign the counter petition here. (And if you don’t care, just have a look and stay here 😉 ).

Because of the debat Wikipedia had to create another page for people requesting the images be removed instead: Talk:Muhammad/images#Image_solution. Wikipedia explains their policy on the Muhammed FAQ page. Wikipedia makes it very clear that they will not remove the images but they do provide a way for users to change their browser settings so that any pictures that offend them can be hidden from their view.