Time again for "Self-Appointed Censor," today starring Muslim students at San Joaquin Delta College and their student imam. Many Muslim students are upset over an artwork in the current show, "My Country, Right or Left: Artists Respond to the State of the Union," at Delta's L.H. Horton art gallery. Called "Kalashnikov Jihad," the work by local artist John Lechner is a life-sized ceramic Kalashnikov assault rifle wrapped in pages of flowing Arabic script from the Quran. The biting point of which, Lechner said, is "that religion is being used as weapon. That the loudest voices that we hear from the...
