Moscow Museum to Exhibit Mohammed Cartoons
MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Moscow museum has announced it will exhibit the entire series of cartoons of Mohammed that have caused riots throughout the Islamic world.
Yury Samodurov, director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center, said on Russian television that the center was ready to organize a public exhibition of the cartoons satirizing the founder of Islam that originally were published in a Danish newspaper, Pravda.ru reported Monday.
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Folks:
Some of you might remember when a "cultural" display in Moscow had a feature with work that very much offended many Russian Orthodox Church followers (this happened within the past couple of years).
I didn't see Russian Orthodox Christian believers rioting and-or issuing threatening rhetoric over that episode.
On such matter, I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, high profile Muslim protests receive attention to their concerns, thereby sensitizing many in the West to such matter.
The culture of Slavic Orthodox Christians seems to take a different root of less passionate activism. As a result, many in the West aren't knowledgeable on the views of many Slavic Orthodox Christians.
Refer to:
THE CONDESCENSION OF THE CHRISTIAN WEST
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9908/opinion/karatnycky.html
This article discusses how the sentiment of Orthodox Christians were treated during the Clinton administration NATO led bombing of Yugoslavia.
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ONGOING EVIDENCE OF POOR MEDIA COVERAGE - RIA NOVOSTI - UKRAINE
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@398.hqwOiV9OGKP.3@.77480649/1356
The above commentary has a piece responding to unfair comments made about Russia's national emblem being "too Christian."
Posted by: Michael Averko | February 7, 2006 1:39 PM
Are the jihadists really upset because it was just a little old timey bomb depicted in Mohammeds turbin instead of a real nuke like the "Christian" nations have?
As an American artist, should I depict Jesus with a nuke protruding out of his cloak?
Posted by: Ray Charles Istre | February 7, 2006 4:25 PM