08-17-2005, 14:29
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| Monkey Mouse
|  Free Speech, Artistic Expression, and Islam...
I found this interesting. When Christians have taken issue with some artwork, it was expressed verbally. If work had to be pulled, it was because of boycotts, or the result of going through the courts, not violence, threats of it, threats to the artist or vandalism Quote: Quote: | Free Speech, Artistic Expression, and Islam | Quote: For a few weeks now, Muslims in the U.K. have been complaining about and vandalizing billboards in their neighborhoods featuring scantily clad women because the show of skin offends them.
Of particular concern are posters for the show "Desperate Housewives," which show more cleavage than the locals in some parts of East London would like. A group called Muslims Against Advertising has deemed them offensive and encouraged people to tear them down or deface them.
Speaking to the Indo-Asian News Service, Ahmed Shiekh of the Muslim Association of Britain said the issue is not one of free speech "because freedom of speech should end when you offend others."
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The New York Times says the threat to artists in Holland from Muslim extremists is the worst that country has endured since the Nazi occupation during World War II.
The country’s main film festival in Rotterdam had to cancel a showing of Theo Van Gogh’s documentary denouncing violence against Muslim women following threats from irate Muslims.
And in Amsterdam, a Moroccan-Dutch painter was forced into hiding after a show of his work featuring works critical of "hate imams" prompted death threats. | | Click here for the source
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