Street artist Combo was attacked in Paris by Muslim youths over his Coexist street art. French street artist Combo was physically assaulted over his latest art work. Photo: Combo Culture Kidnapper/Facebook Posted on 02/10/2015 7:33:38 AM PST by Red Badger
It was very offensive and local Muslims demanded he take it down.
Four Muslims in Porte Dorée (the Golden door), a ghetto east of Paris, beat artist Combo after he refused to take down his Coexist street art. Combo suffered a dislocated shoulder, bruises and a black eye. Artnet reported, via Jihad Watch:
It seems like something one would be hard pressed to disagree with: the word “coexist,” written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C,” a Star of David as the letter “X,” and a Christian cross as a “T.”
But in Paris, this particular iteration of the popular inscription—here, created by the street artist Combo, who also pasted a life-size photo of himself next to it—didn’t go down well with everybody. Le Monde reports that four young people asked the artist to remove it last weekend, and beat him up severely when he refused to do so.
Combo ended up with a dislocated shoulder and many bruises.
The attack is characteristic of the inter-religious tensions that plague France and have been exacerbated by the Charlie Hebdo tragedy (see 12 Killed at Magazine Previously Attacked for Satirical Cartoons). Combo declined to discuss the identity of his assailants. “It would only add fuel to the fire,” he told the French newspaper.
Street artist Combo was attacked in Paris by Muslim youths over his Coexist street art. French street artist Combo was physically assaulted over his latest art work. Photo: Combo Culture Kidnapper/Facebook
He did learn something, though:
Don’t put your pic next to your artwork................
I don’t know if I should feel bad because I laughed at that headline. But knowing your average artist, he likely thought that the local jihady were just peaceful and misunderstood people that needed our respect.
Well, on the bright side, he still has his head and was not set on fire.
Appropriate.In this country if a man with a big beard and wearing a fez were to be videoed shouting Allahu Akbar! while taking a crowbar to the side of a Volvo with a coexist sticker on it it would be blamed on a Right Wing Christian in the MSM.
Well, he got his coexist answer from the muslims.
Or anyone who spray paints other peoples property and then call it art.
But I thought Islam was the religion of peace. Has everyone been lying about that? /sarc
“who also pasted a life-size photo of himself next to it”
Dude shoulda borrowed his old lady’s burka for that pic. lol
Just THEM...........and their ALLIES...............
They probably didn’t have a Bic handy..................
Tea Party Terrorists.............
Notice the left index finger pointing up to the sky?
Is that not an ISIS sign?
This should be plastered on the wall where congress critters meet to remind them what this country is up against.
“Much more meaningful and definitely braver than the pasty-faced thin white fools....”
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Are you talking about the fools and their meaningless parade through Parisian streets without daring to visit the “no go” zones?
What a pitiful crowd of numbnuts that was.
Nice graphic..
No, I think he is Moslem (by birth at least) that lives there and is well aware how they are. I think in his case, not a hippie like in US, just an artist truly aware of how nasty and “intolerant” some types truly are. As opposed to hippies who point it at “us” Christians.
But they are much closer to those zones than our hippies here are. US people are so spoiled - rotten. They don’t know how bad things can be, cannot believe it, so do not believe it. All because they live in a nice safe place that they routinely ironically despise.
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