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Sunday, 20 June 2010
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.
The first is from Earth Times:
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.
The second is from Pink News:
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. Posted on 06/20/2010 6:01 AM by John M. Joyce
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20 Jun 2010
reactionry The Myrrh*, The Merrier
Or: Swimming With The Sharkey***
I've suffered the fools gladly who have depicted my wooden teeth or my hemp-smoking, and I'm sure most of the Irish would have been amused rather than outraged if Sharkey's picture had been given the classic title, "Sodom & Begorrah,"** but I believe that Muamer Zukorlic should have been (assuming that he wasn't; no gif is given) incensed.****
But, hey, it's not all cloudless glory.
Crossing The Patchouli & The Styx,
George Washington
* Also a bitter, though not biting, balm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM
** As someone other than Cousin Willy or Bismarck didn't say when comparing Ireland to the hopelessly multiethnic Austria, "England is Shackletoned to a corpse."
Readers lusting after more mirth and gaiety of manufactured and purloined letters from the House of Myrrh could do worse than to read JMJ's pieces of fiction not titled "The Blight Of Araby" or "The Blarney Stone Of Secrets."
*** See JMJ's link to Pink News. At age 49, Kevin Sharkey is no mere boy, and there is absolutely no reason to think that he's a member of the justly-despised NAMBLA, so one should not think upon reading his statement, "But I don't mind if I'm the whipping boy. I'm a big boy and can look after myself," of what he (JMJ) didn't write, "In the land of the Short Eyes, when the going gets tough, the tough get kinky."
**** Also see the song composed after Muslim rioting, Incense & Pepper Sprays - from the album, Stop All The Strawberry Alarm Clocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYLz63csS0
For those tiring of your basic black (though there is no white flag of surrender in Yunanistan) here's something from a veritable Robes' Gallery:
 [And yes,(acknowledging a helluva lotta' Googlethwarts), I don't doubt that many Irish Catholics will sigh deeply and return to their usual blog-trotting]
23 Jun 2010
 Paul Blaskowicz
"But I don't mind if I'm the whipping boy. I'm a big boy and can look after myself," of what he (JMJ) didn't write, "In the land of the Short Eyes, when the going gets tough, the tough get kinky." - react Another beaut, r. I hope you're saving all this stuff. Stop all the Strawberry Alarm Clocks!! |