[IslamCity] STOCKHOLM MUSEUM REMOVES OBSCENE INSULT TO HOLY QURAN

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:48:29 -0700

More and  more stories of Muslims being targeted, discriminated, insulted and treated like an animal. Yet rarely we heard about this in the mainstream media!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Assalamu Aleikum"
Subject: STOCKHOLM MUSEUM REMOVES OBSCENE INSULT TO HOLY QURAN

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> Museum removes erotic art after Muslim anger
> Reuters via Swiss Info
> Thursday February 3, 2005
> http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=3&sid==5512013
> 
> STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish museum dedicated to
> world culture has removed an erotic painting plastered
> with verses from the Muslim holy book, the Koran, from
> an exhibition about AIDS after Muslims complained it
> was obscene.
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> Jette Sandahl, director of the World Culture Museum,
> which opened in Gothenburg a month ago, said on
> Wednesday that the painting by an Arab artist living
> in France was replaced by another less offensive one.
>
> Sweden is home to 400,000 Muslims. The row over artist
> Louzla Darabi's painting comes amid tensions in Europe
> about a perceived increase in Islamic militancy since
> a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam was murdered in
> the Netherlands late last year.
>
> Sandahl told Reuters that most of the hundreds of
> e-mails and letters sent were "respectful and polite
> but some were more aggressive."
>
> "It was the combination of the image and text from the
> Koran which was problematic," she added.
>
> Darabi told Gothenburg Channel 4 television that her
> work was not meant "offend anyone but to stress the
> link between love and God symbolised by the Koran's
> text".
>
> Sandahl said the painting was removed to prevent
> public attention shifting from the exhibition's main
> message about AIDS and globalisation.
> 
> http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=3&sid==5512013
>
>


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