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Sunday, January 16, 2005

Countdown to another murder

Not that I don't admire his chutzpah, but if I were Rachid Ben Ali I would be driving to Belgium right now to buy a gun and a bulletproof vest. Or make that full body armor. Ben Ali is a Dutch artist of Moroccan descent who has produced several works of art following Theo van Gogh's assassination. But despite his ethnicity, I sincerely doubt if he's going to score any popularity points with his fellow Moroccans now his most recent exposition has opened in the Cobra Museum, based in the Amsterdam suburb of Amstelveen.
Why?
Well, his paintings show imams having sex, as well as imams eating human excrements. You can view some pictures here.
It's not much different from Dutch author Gerard Reve, who wrote about having sex with the Christian god who had taken the form of a donkey for the occassion. That was about forty years ago.
Still, Reve could do so without worry. Other than being senile, he's still in good health. No Christian ever so much lifted a finger at him.
I hope Ben Ali will have a similar long life ahead of him.
If he doesn't, the fact that we are living in a country under siege should finally become apparent to all but the most deluded Dutch.
Then again, there is no shortage of people who chose to only see the pretty face of Liza Minnelli when they were watching Cabaret.
Or, no, there's no need to wait.
If you can read Dutch, you can find people stating they won't shed any tears if he's murdered, as well as other examples of fascist apologetics, right here. (Ctrl-F to a guy named TimmyAsd if you're impatient.)

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Very brave, but this kind of action is vital if we are to keep of freedom of speech.

Bishop Hill (ip:80.44.81.70) 16 January 2005 - 22:24 uur


Gulp.

PJ (ip:69.166.203.224) 16 January 2005 - 8:16 uur


Two quick thoughts:

1. Oh dear. Here we go again.

2. Arjan, did you *have* to say it was a donkey? Right after I had dinner, too...Gratuitous mental imagery. :-(

Penta (ip:67.82.177.37) 16 January 2005 - 1:43 uur


Arjan,
I've been following your posts for some time now since alot of issues, which you discuss in your blog are of great interest to me.
I actually wanted to trackback to this particular post of yours since I wanted to write about it in my blog quoting you as the source.
I hope that you do not mind.
I could not find any trackback feature in your blog, only comments, and so I would just use a manual link. Just drop me an e-mail if you do not wish to be quoted in any way felis@fhs.usyd.edu.au)

Felis (ip:129.78.228.114) 16 January 2005 - 4:49 uur


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