On 10-08-10, ROSS SAUER said to ALL:



RS>Dinesh D'Souza is digging a hole deeper and deeper, and he's dragging
RS>Forbes magazine in with him.


Here's something nice for you:


The Misadventures of Mohammad - Mike Adams - Townhall Conservative

The Muslim world isn't going to like this one bit. There's an exhibit
in a Colorado art gallery, which is stirring up outrage from observers who say
it depicts Mohammad in a sexual act.


Enrique Chagoya's `The Misadventures of Mohammad'� was initially created in
2003.


It is a multi-panel piece in which "cultural and religious icons are presented
with humor and placed in contradictory, unexpected and sometimes controversial
contexts," the artist's publisher, Shark's Ink, said in a recent interview
with Fox News.


The lithograph has been on display since, of all dates, Sept. 11 at the
taxpayer-funded Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colorado. It is part of
an 82-print exhibit by 10 artists who have worked with Colorado printer Bud
Shark.


It includes several images of Mohammad, including one with what appears to be
explicit homosexual content.


Scores of protesters gathered outside the museum over the weekend to object to
Chagoya's work, including one Loveland Councilman, who failed to get the issue
on the council agenda. But, regardless, he said he'll keep pressing to have
what he has called "smut" and "pornography" taken down.


"This is a taxpayer-supported, public museum and it's family-friendly,"
another member of the city council told the Denver Post. She added, "This is
not something the community can be proud of." Other critics said the piece is
appallingly disrespectful and offensive to Muslims everywhere.


"It is visual profanity," an art gallery owner told the local Loveland
newspaper. She added, "It disgraces the mightiest prophet of the God of all
creation. He may have been a pedophile but he was not a homosexual. To say
otherwise is pure defamation." But the artist, a professor at Stanford
University, said he was simply making a statement on problems he sees with
religious institutions, including the Islamic religion. "My intention is to
critique religious institutions, since they affect everybody's lives - even
people outside the religious sects," Chagoya told FoxNews.com.


"In my work mentioned above I address the role of the Islamic religion among
other religious groups imposing its credo on cultures all over the globe. I
also critique Islam's position against same-sex marriage while allowing
pedophiles to be revered as prophets."


Chagoya said he's surprised by the response, saying there were no objections
when the piece, which also includes comic book characters, Mexican
pornography, Mayan symbols and ethnic stereotypes, was shown last year at a
museum in Denver.


"No one seemed to mind then,"� he added. "I can't understand
the sudden outrage
and intolerance towards satire."



"My work is about the corruption of the spiritual by the institutions behind
it, not about the beliefs of anyone. I respect people's opinions and I hope
they respect mine," Chagoya said. "All I do is use my art to express my
anxieties, with some sense of humor. Let's agree to disagree, and long live
our First Amendment."


A local painter, who was part of a smaller group of counter-demonstrators
outside the museum, said she agreed with Chagoya. "We have to be a country
where freedom of expression thrives even if it offends the d-- Muslims," she
bluntly told the local paper. "If you don't like it you are probably stuck in
the stone ages. When you manage to get running water get back in touch with
me."


The director of cultural services at the museum said the controversy has
attracted people to the exhibit. The museum had over 600 visitors on Saturday,
compared with an average of 75 and nearly 300 on Sunday, compared to the
average 30 to 40, according to the local paper. "We invite everyone to come
in, regardless of opinion, to write on a comment slip," she told the Reporter
Herald. Professor Chagoya, when asked whether he fears reprisals from Muslims,
had this to say on Friday: "If you can't understand satire, whether it mocks
exalted professors or exalted prophets - then jump on the next camel and get
the hell out of the country. This is America, not a Muslim theocracy."


Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina
Wilmington and author of Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically
Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus.





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