sometimes i forget how good we have it in the US.

[Eastoff]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/17/frum.vilks.muslim/index.html?hpt=C2

Lars Vilks is a Swedish cartoonist. In the summer of 2007, he was invited to submit three drawings to an exhibition sponsored by the town of Tallerud. The exhibition's theme: "the dog in art." Vilks produced three pencil sketches of street dogs with human faces, the face (Vilks said) of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

Yet Vilks has refused to be intimidated. On Tuesday of this week, Vilks appeared at the University of Uppsalla to lecture on his art and ideas. Two-hundred-fifty people passed through metal detectors to hear him speak. They never got the chance. Vilks opened his talk with a provocative short video that included an image of two nearly naked Iranian gay men wearing masks of Muhammad. At that cue, about 20 rowdies in the crowd shouted, "Stop the film! Stop the film!"

[video=youtube;s2IHnWY-i6Y]"]

 

[julius]

There's art, and there's art done to provoke uncomfortable feeling and there's art done to purposely piss someone off.

 

[julius]

There's art, and there's art done to provoke uncomfortable feeling and there's art done to purposely piss someone off.

conversely, there's reactions, over-reactions and people freaking out.

 

[NJNetz]

Dude, fuck that. Muslims get pissed off at EVERYTHING.

 

[julius]

If you watch till 4:37 in, you see that Guidos aren't just from New Jersey.

 

[BlazerWookee]

What a dick.