Posted on 02/11/2012 5:58:18 PM PST by forty_years
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen. ... the image has religious 'almost Biblical' overtones and noted its resemblance in composition to Michelangelo's Pieta -- but in a Muslim setting. ..."
"Almost Biblical." Not... even... close... Comparing Michelangelo's Pietà to some snapshot of a burqa-ed Muslim woman holding some injured Yemeni street protester is an ideal example of Westerners wearing rose-colored glasses. Many Western "intellectuals" are bending over backwards to placate the largely violent and intolerant Muslim World, because they want to believe in an "Arab Spring." The Pietà "analogy" is not an analogy at all. It is political correctness gone mad.
The burqa-ed woman is wearing latex gloves, for Christ's sake! Is she afraid of being soiled by or soiling the wounded man she's holding? Why is the woman covered from head to toe in black, except for an eye-slit? Because Islamists are so repressed a la Freud that they can't trust themselves to look upon their own women. The burqa is the sure sign of the third-place status of Muslim women -- they can't drive, work, or be seen to varying degrees depending on what dysfunctional Islamic country in which they reside. Yemen ranks worst in the world according to The Global Gender Gap Report.
Yemen may be or become the top stronghold of al-Qaeda. The country is notorious for Islamic extremism; it's opposition "is anti-Western and strongly opposes [President] Saleh['s] government;" Yemen's president and family are corrupt, at times in cahoots with Muslim radicals. The "Arab Spring" is a Western wishful-thinking fantasy and in reality is a grab for power by Islamist extremists (see here, here, and here).
Jesus was a man of peace. His mother Mary stood by his side through the worst of times -- and she didn't wear a burqa or latex gloves. "Jesus publicly included many women as his disciples" (see here also for Biblical citations). When Jesus rose from the dead, the first person he appeared to was Mary Magdalene.
So to you "jurors" for selecting the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award: You got it wrong.
Leave it to the Spaniards, who have become total left-wing idiots over the last few years.
Also, this guy was probably killed by other Islamic militants - and what’s with his mother wearing gloves? Or is that a Muslim EMT and she doesn’t want her face shown because they’d hunt her down and kill her for touching a man to whom she is probably not married?
Not even close. Propaganda much? An accurate description would be 'mostly koranic'
Fislam
Sr. Aranda is preparing for life in Eurabia, it seems. Awful doesn’t really cover it. Blasphemous does.
‘Looks like death, for sure.
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