Posted on 02/29/2008 8:37:01 AM PST by WesternCulture
An exhibition by Danish artists in Berlin has been closed because of threats received over a photo deemed to be offensive to Muslims, organizers said on Thursday.
The exhibition, which opened in central Berlin on February 22, has been closed to ensure the safety of staff and visitors, Ralf Hartmann from the artists' collective Kunstverein Tiergarten said.
The show by Danish art group Surrend is aimed at depicting what they say is the absurdity of extremism in all religions.
One of the 21 photos is of the Kaaba – the cube-shaped building inside the Grande Mosque in Mecca – with the inscription describing the stone as "stupid". Another shows an astronaut on the moon standing next to an Israeli flag. The photo has the inscription "Neonazi-Hallucination".
In 2006 an avant-garde adaptation of a Mozart opera was scrapped in Berlin because of threats resulting from the use of Mohammed's decapitated head in the production.
Coming to a neighborhood near you.
“.....deemed to be offensive to Muslims....”
Soon to join “You are a racist”, and “That is homophobic” in the Chicken Little “The sky is falling” category of grossly overused lies that are eventually ignored.
Wish I could view the exhibition. Bleah on the crazy islamic fanaticism.
Or they could just re-open the exhibit and set up a security checkpoint at the entrance, turning away all Muslims saying “we don’t trust you not to respond in violence so you have to leave”. That’s essentially what they’re saying anyway, except that the way they’re doing it, everyone gets denied access because any one of them might be a Muslim, whom they do not trust.
It seems that, were I a Muslim, I would be demanding that they open the exhibit, since the premise for closing it is insulting to all Muslims.
Muslims are offensive to me....can they all just go back to their sand dunes and manage their goat herds?
They won’t go back and be peaceful,
because they are REQUIRED by their religion to conduct war until the whole world is subjugated or converted.
This needs to be known far and wide.
Careful there. You're making the goats nervous.
PETA will need to be called in..
Ah, a creation of God, not Allah!
This was the wrong response—the German government should have posted armed forces at the exhibit.
Freedom must be protected or neanderthals like Islamists will choke the life from it.
I’m past the point of caring which “group” is offended by modern Western culture. If they don’t like it, I’d rather come to blows sooner than later. Let’s get this crap over with.
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