Posted on 01/15/2019 9:13:00 AM PST by bitt
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will remove an art installation featuring a nine-foot tall statue of Saudi Arabia’s flag from the World Trade Center campus.
“We have been in contact with the 9/11 Memorial and various stakeholders, and in full collaboration with the artist will relocate the exhibit from its current location,” a spokesperson for the organization told Observer on Monday. “We believe this solution respects the unique sensitivities of the site and preserves the artistic integrity of the exhibit.”
Created by French sculptor Laurence Jenkell in 2011, the exhibit ‘Candy Nations’ depicts countries in the G20 Summit as candy statues, and has been featured at over 25 sites across the world. After Observer reported on its arrival at the World Trade Center, many Americans were shocked to discover a statue celebrating Saudi Arabia had been erected on the Ground Zero plaza—given the Kingdom’s alleged involvement in harboring terrorism, and that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudi Arabian.
“Having respectfully understood the art component of it, I was offended that Saudi Arabia was represented there, particularly that close to hallowed ground,” Tim Frolich, a permanently disabled survivor from the World Trade Center attacks, told Observer. “There’s no support out there for it from the 9/11 community.”
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“Campus”? I wasn’t aware that a school was built there.
Destroy islam!
“the artist will relocate the exhibit from its current location”
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If “the artist” is searching for a place to put it, I have a good suggestion for him.
Islam needs to be outlawed, it has no place in the western civilized world.
Hooray! A small but significant victory!
SHOCKING!
Needs be DESTROYED!
They tried. They took the people for complete a$$holes. Wrong. The people are only 1/2 a$$holes.
The abomination will be moved. It should be broken apart and thrown into a pit.
Art is no longer beauty. Art today is a great big promotion of leftist causes.
Everyone in the chain o’ command of the Port Authority that ok’d that “art” should be handed walking papers.
Have the KSA stop buying US debt. Then you will see what is really meant by our greatest ally.
Is there a form anywhere that allows me to revoke my votes for George W. Bush?
Who thought this was a good idea? I mean who, besides the Saudi’s and that French artist? Even the name is offensive;
“Candy Flag”. Something frivolous, something mildly amusing.
That’s not at all what I think of in reference to 911, not even 18 years later.
“The abomination will be moved. It should be broken apart and thrown into a pit.”
It should be cut into bricks and used to line a sewage treatment facility.
Islam is a religion of Peace./s
THEY HAND OUT CANDY TO CHILDREN TO CELEBRATE WHENEVER A TERRORIST KILLS A JEW.
THIS WAS NOTHING MORE THAN MOCKING.
It is silly for them to think hoodwinking liberals is like taking candy from a baby...
More apt would be a piece of cake.
The person who allowed this monstrosity to be place at Ground Zero in the first place should be summarily fired.
And, whatever supporters he/she had should be rooted out and fired also!
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