Monday, 7 August 2006

More Muslim "art"

Sharaf al-Husaini al-Yazdi - Youth with a Lute (c.1595)
This picture is one item the State Hermitage Museum hasn't lost, because the Hermitage lent it to the Royal Museum in Edinburgh for another of those boring Islamic exhibitions. If you're wondering why so many of these shows keep popping up, it's the fault of the UK Festival of Muslim Cultures, another iffy charity with Government funding. (It claims to be non-ideological, but promotes a religion!) Its patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, is one of those people who accuse anyone who feels threatened by Muslim Fundamentalism of "Islamaphobia". The threat is real and HRH has his head in the sand. I hope he watched BBC TV's Panorama Faith, Hate and Charity. It might wake him up. Twaddle aside, the example of Iranian art shown is primitive, medieval and incompetent. For 500 years European artists have done better than this. So why are we being asked to view such third-rate stuff? Because Government wants us to "Celebrate at a time when relations between the UK and the Muslim world (including UK Muslims) are under strain..." What's to celebrate? Suicide bombers? Terrorism? We Brits put great faith in appeasement. We tried it with Adolf Hitler. It didn't work with him; it won't work with Muslim Fundamentalists. All it does is waste space in our museums. And this "festival" of propaganda continues until July 2007! Give us a break!
The title link takes you to Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), a feminist protest movement that comes closer to reality than does HRH.

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