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A Photomontage And A Painting � And Just Guess Who Gets All Offended!
Compare and contrast the two excerpts that I reproduce below for your delectation.
Serbia's Islamic Community on Saturday protested against a photomontage published in the daily Blic and demanded a "symbolic" compensation of 100 million euros (124 million dollars).
Daily Blic ran a photomontage of the leader of the Islamic community Muamer Zukorlic dressed in an Orthodox Christian bishop robe.
"We are demanding an apology from the editors and owner of Blic daily and a symbolic compensation of 100 million euros," the community said in a statement. “If Blic refuses, it will face charges and the Islamic Community will call all citizens to boycott the daily”, the statement added.
The Islamic Community said Muslims in Serbia were offended by the photomontage as it insults the deepest religious feelings of Muslims.
Blic editor-in-chief Veselin Simonovic said the daily meant no offence.
The majority of Serbia's population are Orthodox Christians, but Muslims have a stronghold in the south of the country.
An Irish artist is expecting outrage after painting a picture of the Pope conducting a gay marriage.
'You May Now Kiss The Groom' by Kevin Sharkey is to go on display in Dublin at the end of this month.
Donegal-born Sharkey, 49, is bisexual and has attracted controversy before over his work, most notably for his 2009 image of Katie Price merged with Moors murderer Myra Hindley.
He said he got the idea for the painting after seeing a news report about the Pope calling gay marriage a "dangerous threat" to the common good.
The Catholic Church's official stance on homosexuality is that it is "intrinsically disordered" and gay unions can never been considered equal to marriage.
The Pope has launched verbal attacks against gay marriage several times recently and has criticised gay rights provisions in the UK's Equality Act.
Fairly obviously the Pope is now owed 100 million Euros by the Irish gay people, wouldn’t you say – probably a lot more because the Pope is a damn site better known than some insignificant Muslim in Serbia.
Somehow I doubt that any Irish Catholic will actually ask for it however. Somehow I doubt that Catholics in Ireland will do more than sigh deeply and return to their usual lives.
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