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What will this submission do? It will encourage Muslims elsewhere in Germany, and in Europe, to think that they can dictate the public art that will be allowed on display. If they claim that nudes offend them, and “they cannot be responsible for what will happen if a certain statue is not removed,” what official will keep such a statue on view? No one wants to be blamed if after a statue has been complained about, remains in situ, and then is damaged or destroyed. It’s easier to submit to a Muslim diktat.
And why would Muslims stop with statuary? What about those offensive paintings in museums, such as those that depict slave girls in a harem, or a Muslim slave market with European slaves being examined by potential Arab buyers, or “orientalist ” depictions of stereotypical burnoosed Arabs, waving their scimitars, riding their camels into furious battle? And what about al the paintings with Christian themes? Why should Muslim visitors to museums not be shielded from paintings of the Christ child, or John the Baptist, or the Annunciation, or the Dormition of Mary, or Christ on the Cross, or the Flight From Egypt, or the Last Supper? These offend Muslims; cover them up, or put all such paintings in a separate wing of European museums, that will be clearly marked so that Muslims will not, by mistake, enter those rooms where they would be exposed to Christian scenes and iconography?
And what about all the memorials in Germany — and also, on a lesser scale, in France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands — to the Holocaust, with the symbolic statues of the murdered, the lists engraved on stone of those deported from each city, the plaques on walls that tell the viewer that it was here that the Jewish ghetto once stood, or where Jews were gathered to be sent by cattle cars to their deaths in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec? Would it really be wrong to move, or covered up, or efface, some of these Holocaust memorials? After all, that was all so long ago, and now that Muslims are living in the midst of Europe, shouldn’t we consider their feelings? So many of them think that the world has heard quite enough about the Holocaust, which only encourages sympathy for the “Zionist entity” and that, of course, will never do. All of these statues, representing a murdered child or family, all these plaques, and these stark commemorative stones with names of the deported engraved, ought to be, if not put into permanent storage, at least placed far from where Muslims are likely to see them. Hats off to those Dresden officials who, putting their fingers to the wind, have sensed how to behave to make sure that these “new Germans” have nothing to complain about.
There was no need to “create more space” for Muslims going in and out of their new, quite luxurious residence (with large single-occupancy rooms, a hairdresser, a gym, a canteen serving three meals a day, and a “leisure activities” coordinator, to help these idle Muslim economic migrants fill up their days); the plaza is very large and the statue of the crouching female not quite life-size; on its plinth, it took up very little room. The real reason it was moved was fear of how Muslims might react to such an offense to their sensibilities. Might they respond by trying to smash the statue? Muslims have for years been smashing religious statues and breaking altars in churches all over Europe; why would they not do the same to such an “immodest” statue?
What will this submission do? It will encourage Muslims elsewhere in Germany, and in Europe, to think that they can dictate the public art that will be allowed on display. If they claim that nudes offend them, and “they cannot be responsible for what will happen if a certain statue is not removed,” what official will keep such a statue on view? No one wants to be blamed if after a statue has been complained about, remains in situ, and then is damaged or destroyed. It’s easier to submit to a Muslim diktat.
And why would Muslims stop with statuary? What about those offensive paintings in museums, such as those that depict slave girls in a harem, or a Muslim slave market with European slaves being examined by potential Arab buyers, or “orientalist ” depictions of stereotypical burnoosed Arabs, waving their scimitars, riding their camels into furious battle? And what about al the paintings with Christian themes? Why should Muslim visitors to museums not be shielded from paintings of the Christ child, or John the Baptist, or the Annunciation, or the Dormition of Mary, or Christ on the Cross, or the Flight From Egypt, or the Last Supper? These offend Muslims; cover them up, or put all such paintings in a separate wing of European museums, that will be clearly marked so that Muslims will not, by mistake, enter those rooms where they would be exposed to Christian scenes and iconography?
And what about all the memorials in Germany — and also, on a lesser scale, in France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands — to the Holocaust, with the symbolic statues of the murdered, the lists engraved on stone of those deported from each city, the plaques on walls that tell the viewer that it was here that the Jewish ghetto once stood, or where Jews were gathered to be sent by cattle cars to their deaths in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec? Would it really be wrong to move, or covered up, or efface, some of these Holocaust memorials? After all, that was all so long ago, and now that Muslims are living in the midst of Europe, shouldn’t we consider their feelings? So many of them think that the world has heard quite enough about the Holocaust, which only encourages sympathy for the “Zionist entity” and that, of course, will never do. All of these statues, representing a murdered child or family, all these plaques, and these stark commemorative stones with names of the deported engraved, ought to be, if not put into permanent storage, at least placed far from where Muslims are likely to see them. Hats off to those Dresden officials who, putting their fingers to the wind, have sensed how to behave to make sure that these “new Germans” have nothing to complain about.
