Moscow museum to exhibit Mohammed cartoons

UPI ^

[janetjanet998]

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Moscow museum has announced it will exhibit the entire series of cartoons of Mohammed that have caused riots throughout the Islamic world.

Yury Samodurov, director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center, said on Russian television that the center was ready to organize a public exhibition of the cartoons satirizing the founder of Islam that originally were published in a Danish newspaper, Pravda.ru reported Monday.

"We must show the whole world that Russia goes along with Europe, that the freedom of expression is much more important for us than the dogmas of religious fanatics," Samodurov said.

The exhibition reportedly will open in March. Lawyer Yury Shmidt has said he will invite French philosopher Andre Glucksmann and French novelist Michel Houellebecq to the opening ceremony to read lectures about the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

In 2003 the Sakharov Museum outraged many Russian Orthodox believers with the art exhibit "Be Careful -- Religion," which many felt was insulting to their beliefs.

[Peach]

Russians haven't forgotten about what happened to those kids in that school.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

How about one of those space based billboards I have read about?

Come to think of it, how hard would it be to put something up that would block the sun to a particular area on earth? What would it take to permanently eclipse Syria, Iran and North Korea? Kill all plant life in those areas?

[ferri]

How will Putin handle the protestors? This should be fun.

nerve gas...like last time. lol

[Savage Beast]

Okay! But if the Sakharov Museum gets blown up, don't blame me.

BTW, if you get violent to prove that you're not violent, isn't that begging the question or something like that?

[GarySpFc]

Wow. The former Soviet Union- one of the more repressive regimes in the world's history..is going to let a museum display The Cartoons.
While back in the USA only a couple of newspapers have even shown them..

And meanwhile in the evil Russia they have Bible classes in their schools. Wait, it was that evil Putin who signed the bill into law authorizing the Bible classes. Oh well, we know Russia is evil, and America is good.

[frankjr]

Fox News showed one of the cartoons (the one with a bomb for a turban). I think the show was Fox News Sunday.

[KJC1]

Hope this is true, but the source is Pravda. Hmmm.

[Uncle Miltie]

"MSM won't publish them...so who's left to do it?"

You and me, brother (or sister).

[GarySpFc]

Because the USA has sons and daughters in the desert. The Russians sat this one out.

Yes, the evil Russians sat this one out. Wait, haven't they been losing thousands of their sons and daughters in Chechnya? Oh well, that really doesn't matter since they are evil Russians and we are Godly Americans.

[CIDKauf]

That's a fact....Thank you very much!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

BTW, if you get violent to prove that you're not violent, isn't that begging the question or something like that?

That was brilliantly said....seriously.

[freeangel]

Dollars to donuts, this event will never happen in Russia.

[x5452]

http://asf.prime-task.com/cgi/ASFdbs.pl?&layout=frame&pass=&main_page=http://asf.prime-task.com/&main_page_title=ASF+Home+Page&action=Linkview&link_type_doc=file&link_name=doc&link_res_doc=centermsk.897447861.html#museum

The Center has been created by The Sakharov Foundation(Russia)/Public Commission. In September 1995 the City of Moscow gave to the Sakharov Commission a 25-year rent free lease on a 10,000-square-foot, two-storey building located in a handsome park across the Garden Ring Road from the The Sakharov Archives in Moscow. With the help of Freedom House, National Endowment for Democracy, and the USAID the renovation of the building has been completed in the spring of 1996 and since then the Center is actively working as a resource available to all human rights and non-governmental organizations in Russia.

Over the past year, more than 6000 persons have visited the Sakharov Center's museum and its library or have participated in its meetings and seminars. In particular, in the ten months from October 1996 to August 1997 there were 46 excursion groups involving 1,214 teachers as well as secondary school and college students who received guided tours of the exhibits and special lectures. The museum is open five days a week, and admission is free. The museum's permanent exposition is divided into three sections: The USSR's Totalitarian Past, with special emphasis on the history of repression, the prison camp system, and the human rights movement; Human Rights in Russia Today, including audiovisual displays on ethnic conflict in Chechnya, Tajikistan and other regions; and The Life and Work of Andrei Sakharov. In addition to permanent exhibits, the Museum hosted a number of temporary exhibitions. These included:
Yuri Rost's photographs of Sakharov and other Russian personalities; the work of Doctors without Borders;
Women against Violence; and
Ernest Neizvestny's Magadan monument, Victims of Totalitarianism.

[Wraith]

I believe they call it an AK-47....

[Redbob]

"The point being not ALL of the nations newpapers are liberal rags..Washington Times, Wall street journal come to mind..."

Here's where you're wrong:
the Wall Street Journal has been found to be THE most liberal in its reporting of any newspaper in the country.

This was reported here among other places, and it certainly comes as no surprise to any WSJ subsriber - as has also been reported, their reporters go out of their way to compensate for the conservative leanings of the editorial staff.

[msnimje]

One was show om Special Report last night.

[x5452]

Considering as the museum is a religion bashing center supported in large part by Soros Freedom House (Who I will be shocked if they don't shut down anything that insinuates Islam is not the religion of peace) I wouldn't exactly cry to see it go.

[RightWhale]

If we painted the piece on the moon, we would tire of it long before the geniuses of the ME stopped ululating as if somebody really cares about their precious feelings.

[CaptainCanada]

Good posts.
Nice to see someone has his head screwed on right.