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Gauguin's Two Tahitian Women Attacked

The attack occurred at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. last week:

...Screaming “This is evil,” a woman tried to pull Gauguin’s “Two Tahitian Women” from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture’s clear plastic covering, said Pamela Degotardi of New York, who was there.

“She was really pounding it with her fists,” Degotardi said. “It was like this weird surreal scene that one doesn’t expect at the National Gallery.”

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The suspect in the attack, who was not identified by name, was presented in court on Saturday....Details of the court appearance were not immediately available....

Here's something else interesting about the above story. The hard copy edition of the Washington Post shows the painting as in this posting. However, the online edition of the Washington Post has cropped a photo of the painting so as not to show the women's bare breasts:


I have to ask:

Was the woman who attacked the painting a Muslimah?

Why did the Washington Post crop that painting for the web version of the story?

Maybe someone here at IBA can do some digging and help me to the find the answers to those two questions.

The Art of D.T. Devereaux

How Islam tries to dictate what we read

ieligious fanatics have been jailed for an attack on the UK home of a publisher. His “crime”? He dared to want to publish a novel about Aisha, the child bride of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.

Now, according to The Times, among others, three Islamic fundamentalists have been banged up “for an arson attack on a London publisher who planned to print an ‘offensive’ book about the Prophet Muhammad”.

The attack was on the home of Martin Rynja, and “has been compared to the campaign against the publication of Salmon Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”.

You can see from the links below just what a fuss was made by these and other morons, who believe that historical figures don’t belong to all, and if we wish to write fiction based on them, draw cartoons of them, make sculptures of them or paint them, we should be allowed to do so.
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Related links:
How Muslims rule what we read
Aisha author should be compensated, says Rushdie’s QC
Cowardice condemned

Some Art

Gods, like men,
revere the boys
who die for them
in battle.
- Heraclitus

More from Wilders

Geert Wilders is going to make another film about Islam.

Thanks to Muslim moans, his previous one, Fitna, was guaranteed worldwide audiences, and the film has been placed on numerous blogs.

Fitna concentrated on the Islamic hate manual, the Koran. The new movie – which the Dutch politician hopes to complete next year – is expected to focus on the threat of Islam and the impact Islamisation has had on Europe and the United States.

It will also focus on the principle of free speech. As we’ve seen, our own NuLabour masters have shown their supine, gutless, pusillanimous spinelessness by banning Wilders from the UK when he was to have shown his film here – at the invitation of a member of the House of Lords (see also here).

Two Views

Here is some very unusual art work from Pakistan
Rashid Rana

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, 1968
Lives and works in Lahore

Rashid Rana is part of the young and thriving artistic scene from Pakistan and is one of their most unique and celebrated artists. Rana’s interest lies in the ‘here and now’. He uses iconographic images that challenge the viewer’s perception of contemporary Pakistani art. His work addresses issues of faith, popular culture and incorporates a social/political commentary and parody.

Employing a range of media, Rana’s work reflects a spectrum of issues from popular culture to problems of gender and violence. Exploring the stereotyping of women, Rana in his Veil series looks at two extreme representations of women. From a distance, the image appears to be a group of veiled women. On closer inspection, it is a composite of hundreds of tiny hardcore porn photographs gleaned from the Internet. “I’m not making a statement here. The Internet is a major part of our lives these days and almost 70 percent of what you get on it is porn. It’s also about how men in western countries look at women from non-western or Islamic countries and how men in non-western countries look at western women ”.

How men in western countries look at women from non-western or Islamic countries

VEIL # 1

VEIL #2
VEIL #3
How moslems in non-western countries look at western women

Detail from VEIL #1

Detail from VEIL #2

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Detail from VEIL #3

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