Museum Buys Muhammad Cartoons
Posted on January 30, 2008
Filed Under EU, Immigration, Islam, Islam in Europe, Media, Multiculturalism, News, Religion, Stupidity
A new development in a neverending saga of Muhammad cartoons. This time the development is positive.
The Art Newspaper reports
Danish museum to buy Muhammad cartoons which sparked global riots
The Museum of Danish Cartoon Art in Copenhagen is planning to buy the 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which sparked global riots when they were published in European newspapers. More than 50 people died in the violence which followed.
“We hope we can secure all of the works to preserve them for the future. The caricatures have become a part of Danish history,” Royal Library spokesperson Jytte Kjaergaard told The Art Newspaper. She would not disclose whether the museum, part of Denmark’s national Royal Library, intends to put the cartoons on display.
However, the Danish Media Museum in Odense told The Art Newspaper it would like to show the works in an exhibition about freedom of expression. “If the library acquires them, we would like to show them together with media reports about the publication and the protests against it,” Ervin Nielsen, director of the Media Museum, said. He added that he is not worried the exhibition might provoke new protests. “As we would document the incidents around the publication and not simply show the works, I do not expect strong reactions. We do not want to provoke, but inform,” he explained.
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The Museum of Danish Cartoon Art is in talks with several of the artists who produced the drawings, but an agreement has not yet been reached. “We have generally agreed that we want a museum to have the works, but everyone still has to take a final decision for himself,” Claus Seidel, one of the cartoonists and head of the Danish cartoonists’ association, told The Art Newspaper.“Nobody wants to make a lot of money, some of us are even willing to donate the works,” he said. One work was sold shortly after it was published. The artist donated the money to charity.
I guess this is another point that proves that the riots these cartoons provoked in the Muslim societies in Europe, North Africa and Middle East were counterproductive.
Muhammad cartoons, a museum item, will serve as an eternal mark and shame-stamp on the forehead of those Muslims who took part in the riots and demonstrated their intolerance, hatred and inability to understand the values democratic societies are built upon.
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