Posted on 02/05/2005 5:02:05 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-- A painting depicting a couple making love while covered in Quranic verses was removed from a Swedish museum this week after hundreds of complaints, some threatening, from Muslims who found it offensive, officials said Thursday.
The painting, "Scene d'Amour," by Louzla Darabi, was removed Monday from an exhibit about AIDS at the World Culture Museum in Goteborg in southern Sweden.
More than 400,000 of Sweden's 9 million residents are Muslim, and the museum received some 700 complaints about the painting, including some that were threatening.
Museum director Jette Sandahl said the painting was removed because it was detracting attention from the exhibit.
"We were having so many conversations with the audience about that painting, and it was getting more and more intense," Sandahl said. "It shifted the focus from HIV and AIDS, which is what the exhibit is about."
The exhibit, which contains about 500 works of art, is meant to highlight the human tragedy of AIDS but also contains sections focusing on hope and desire. Sandahl said "Scene d'Amour" was meant to "be a celebration of erotic love."
The painting was replaced by another work by Darabi, that also contains an erotic scene but without Islamic verses.
Darabi could not be reached for comment.
Muhammad and a 10 year old girl?
It was probably Mo-mo and a young boy.
Are the Europeans about to close up shop? In the last two weeks we have seen this incident, the cancelling of the showing of Van Gogh's film SUBMISSION in Rotterdam (he was murdered for making this film) and British Muzzies threatening political action if their pet anti-religious-hate law isn't passed. Time to stop this nonsense Europe!
One small step for Sweden, one giant leap for self-destruction..
Not even Muhammad's camel or goat would've been "safe".
They should replace it with a forensic photo from a recent suicide bombing of a bus in Israel, uncensored and depicting fragments of human children. Apparently that's a graphic representation of quranic verses too.
It's a sex act, but in that context, not really that explicit: Click if you must
Very little Koranic script, by the way.
I agree with removing that painting.
But by the same token, museums should also refrain from exhibiting some of the outrageous paintings that is offensive to Christians, which they usually defend as "art" and act as if Christians have no right to be offended.
More than 400,000 of Sweden's 9 million residents are Muslim, and the museum received some 700 complaints about the painting, including some that were threatening.
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Sorry Sweden, we warned you. You let them in, now they want to change your like -- welcome to Islam.
wow.
EXCELLANT POST.
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What IS explicit to you?!!!
Well, that CERTAINLY ain't no little boy in the painting! Perhaps if the artist had put in arabic, "Here is what we are doing to the infidels", then it would have been alright with the mushmellons.
It was a bit abstract, the painting...maybe I should've phrased it better. Anyway, perhaps I've been desensitized after confronting such (true) stoties as "artwork" portraying the Virgin Mary made of of elephant dung, and a crucifix suspended in urine.
I know that he wants me bad…I know that he wants me bad
I'm only 8 years old…he's still got it, I'm told
In just one year I'm gonna be his
Although I still am flat...he'll call me pussy cat
That I'm too young is nobody's biz
I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I'm Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me
All of his wives are hags…they've turned into old bags
I am so fresh and very nubile
On me he's had his eye…he is my kind of guy
I'll be the next one he will defile
I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I'm Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me
Howabout a Koran in a jar of urine... now THAT is art.
Just "REMOVE" the Muslims and problem solved!
They don't remove "art" that is offensive to other religions because when we complain the most we do is gather to protest. Muslims kill when they find something objectionable.
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