Major Islamic art exhibit being installed at BYU [Utah Mormon University]

KSL.com ^ | February 9th, 2012 | Carole Mikita

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PROVO -- A major new art exhibit is currently undergoing installation at the BYU Museum of Art is expected to attract 100,000 visitors and will feature art from the world of Islam. KSL was able to get an exclusive first look. The "Beauty and Belief" exhibit is expected to attract 100-thousand visitors. Works will travel to four museums in America, but they make their first stop in Provo.

The exhibit team is mounting 250 works of art. A pair of 19th century mother-of-pearl doors from India were donated by the Doris Duke Foundation in Hawaii. A heavy, jewel-encrusted box from the Mughal Empire in India will grace the same room as an earthenware bowl from 12th century Iran.

The exhibit stretches over 16-thousand square feet, and the design itself incorporates many layers of meaning.

"All these arches are creating a sense of the infinite," said Exhibit Director Sabiha al Khemir. "That's conveying an experience to the visitor,"

A jewel-encrusted box from the medieval Mughal Empire in India. Dozens on campus are supporting the exhibit's curators.

"The design, the actual build of the gallery, and then working on the shipping, the insurance, and just the logistics of getting the objects here," said Emily Poulsen, senior registrar at the museum. "So it's really exciting."

This exhibit, they say, will be a rare opportunity to experience different cultures and another faith.

"If you feel somewhere else, you are in somebody else's world and you feel wonderful," al Khemir said. "I mean, it's the best way for acceptance and embracing something different."

Dr. al Khemir says building bridges of understanding starts with the realization that God is at the center of all beauty.

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Exhibit information The "Beauty and Belief" exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 24 and runs through September 29. Visitors will enter the rich world of Islamic art through a spectacular, purple arch. Each room they enter will have a different colors, signifying different ideas - like light, which leads to knowledge.

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Isn’t that cute, Mormons and Muslims?

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Gee, I wonder when they’ll install the room for the Muslim students to pray to Allah. < /s >

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The teachings of islam Mormonism are straight from the pit of Hell. They are a tool of Satan to fool people into missing the Cross and Salvation and rejecting the only Messiah acceptable to the God of the universe, for the payment of sins.

[WKUHilltopper]

And yet...it would be the Muslims the first one’s who would lop off the heads of Mormons for being infidels...

[lurk]

Why not? They have the same basic earn-your-eternal-life template. And in the 1800’s, throat cutting was all the rage in Utah.

[svcw]

Not surprised. They have been getting together for years, praying, singing, eathing and who knows what else - just one big happy cultie family.

[Da Coyote]

Heretofore, I have respected Mormons.

However, if they ally themselves with the slime of the earth...then I shall regard them in the same manner as I regard the slime.

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I wonder if Mohammed has been dead-dunked yet.

Hmmm, I bet someone REALLY important, a huge tithe-payer, would get an honor like that.

[svcw]

Probably not. islamic leaders have said they are very comfortable with the teachings of mormonISM. And why not Joseph Smith loved islam, and quoted that belief system frequently.
They have been partnering for decades building alliances.
islam does not believe/teach in Jesus Christ of the Bible and neither does mormonISM.

[svcw]

My guess would be yes. The dunked hitler and those fellows, why not mohammed.

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The mormon alliance with islam has been going on for decades.
Joseph Smith declared himself to be the next mohammed.

[fishtank]

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

Muslims deny Christ in the same way.

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Ping

[Jmouse007]

"Muslim Art" I can see it now: Pictures of little boys dressed in green with explosive vests strapped on, raising kid sized AK47's above their heads, standing by signs saying "Death to America", "Death to Israel". Women covered in burkas from head to toe with nothing but their eyes showing through eye slits, or pictures of women walking 10 feet behind the man dragging 6 to 8 children behind her. Or maybe they will have enlightened pictures of women being stoned or a father performing an "honor killing" on his teen age daughters. Or perhaps a photo realistic painting or the beheading of Mr. Pearl, or the stoning of homosexuals or the woman buried up to her neck, ... wouldn't that be nice?

If they decide to go "old school" Muslim "art" maybe they will depict Muhammad's deflowering of his 9 year old "bride", or perhaps the killing, rape, pillage, and enslaving of Christian "infidels".

Oh there is so much "enlightened" Muslim "art" scenes to choose from.

[therightliveswithus]

Mormons....Muslims? What’s going on here?

[Iron Munro]

Islamic Art

Muslim Mona Lisa

[svcw]

mormonISM and islam have been partnering for decades.
Joseph Smith declared himself to be the the next mohammed.
This is nothing new, being exposed is new.

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LOL!