Posted on 02/04/2006 8:09:16 AM PST by bnelson44
An obscenity and blasphemy case has been registered here against six people for putting up a pictorial exhibition on Adam and Eve here in which the actors in the photograph were in a state of nudity.
Police named three artists, a photographer, a prominent art curator and a sixth person as suspects in the case, local news reports said Friday.
The exhibit at the Bank Indonesia Museum in Central Jakarta raised a furore with Islamic hardliners who said the photograph depiction of Adam and Eve, who were played by an actor and actress with fig leaves covering their private parts, was an insult to Islam.
"We already summoned them as (potential) suspects months ago and from the questioning, we have enough corroborating evidence to name them suspects," Senior Commander Mohammad Jaelani, chief of the city police general crime unit, told the Jakarta Post.
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I think the only thing that isn't an insult to Islam is dying.
What, their complaint is they weren't decked out in threads from Nordstroms? I thought they were naked in the Bible. So the only legitimate complaint would be that they were wearing fig-leaves. I guess the girl should have been in a lumpy head to toe Burkha with an arrow pointing to her saying 'Eve.' That would be true to scripture.
"Adam, who is considered a prophet by Muslims,"
Adam was a prophet?
They must be running out of young men willing to commit suicide for their cause.
Islam is an insult to humaniy.
Interesting.
Thanks for the link.
I do not recall any reaction to Serrano's "Piss Christ" ?
(< / tongue-in-cheek)
How do they prevent babies from being born naked in the muslim
world?
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