What I'm getting at is that it serves nobody loyal to any religious faith to go about showing works of art which promote the very sickness within the nation of Islam. That painting could just as well have saddam on the horse with Bush senior with his head severed. He probobly got the idea from the side of some building in Baghdad or Tehran.
That's not creativity. That's the sort of work that makes any criminal profiler tracking a serial killer stand up and take notice when they find it when they find it while searching some out of the way house.
It's only "celebrated" because the Pan Arab word doesn't have anything else to push onto the public. When studying a culture, you don't just study their politics, you study their literature, humor, artwork and music. No original humor, literature, artwork or music has been produced by the Pan Arab world. And to the Islamophiles out there, no, the occaisional "invention" of motifs doesn't count.
Pan Arabism (it's now al Qaeda) is a farce, a lie, a fallacy, a foreign culture superimposed on the ancient cultures subsumed by Muhammad's was of attrition against the world. The only way to keep control is through dictatorship, the total control of the physical lives, hearts and minds of the conquered. Because it's not a real cuture, it's already stagnated and now we're suffering through it's death throws. Unless the Islamic world is allowed the freedom to evolve and grow by being able to speak without fear and represent their own interests in their government, it's dead. Done. Dust. I support the president's plan to spread freedom and representative government to the Islamic world.
I've been listening to Iraqi and Pakistani rock groups, some of which are VERY good. THESE represent are the true hope of the Islamic - NOT THE SO-CALLED PAN ARAB - world. They want freedom. The freedom to create, to sculpt, to play IN PEACE, without being banned, shot or tortured.
Pay attention to people like them. They want the same things as you and me. They deserve your encouragement and your insight, not your contempt.