Okay, let me get this straight. Two Muslims murder twelve people and injure eleven others because of cartoons of Muhammad that they consider blasphemous. In response, the French government organizes Islamic art exhibitions so that the French people can “learn how [to] celebrate cultural differences [and] to coexist peacefully.” Apparently the French are expected to look at this marvelous Islamic art and forget all about the violent jihad.
But wait: it was Muslims who killed non-Muslims in the Charlie Hebdo offices. Yet this exhibition is designed to compel non-Muslims to be more tolerant of Muslims. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the French government to finance exhibitions of non-Islamic art in Muslim areas, and to exhort Muslims to learn how to celebrate cultural differences and to coexist peacefully? These exhibitions are like going to someone who has just been violently assaulted and explaining to him why he should be peaceful. Typical of today’s madness.
“French govt organizes Islamic exhibitions across France,” Global Village Space, November 30, 2021:
Following the rise in Islamophobia after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, France saw an increase in separatism and identity politics. The French government has turned to the unifying power of art to deal with the wave of separatism. The government of France is organizing numerous exhibitions over the period of four months to showcase the cultural and traditional diversity in the Islamic world and break stereotypes associated with Islamic culture and tradition.
It is especially important at this time where France hasn’t had the best track record in recent years when it comes to combating Islamophobia. When recently, Algerian Muslim women were stabbed near the Eiffel Tower for being Muslims and two Jordanian nationals were assaulted for speaking Arabic in the city of Angers.
A Past For Present,” is organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, and led by the head of the Louvre’s Islamic art department Yannick Lintz. The idea of the exhibitions was first suggested by the French President Emmanuel Macron to showcase the true face of Islamic tradition rather than the prevailing dogmatic side of it, perpetuated mainly by the militant organizations working under the banner of Islam.
The exhibitions would display works from 19 artists from different parts of the Islamic world. The artists would showcase their cultural affinity with the past and the heritage they draw from cultures and how it affects their lives to this day.
The exhibition displays around 210 art pieces borrowed from national museums, 60 of which have been loaned from the Louvre. It is especially important for France to promote diversity as it hosts one of the largest Muslim and Jew population inside Europe and where the wave of resentment against the Muslim community is rising. Lintz believes “it’s important, as curators specialized in Islamic civilization and Islamic art, to give another message about what is the historical reality of Islam, through 13 centuries of art, civilization, and intellectual life.”…
This exhibition is an attempt to curb the rising Islamophobia and separatism in France. With such diverse population it is important for the French to learn how celebrate cultural differences to coexist peacefully….
Jim J Fox says
Islam is totally insane and the non Muslim world reacts with its own type of insanity. In 75 years I have never felt anything like my present level of anger and despair; it seems the majority of people have no capacity at all for rational thought.
maria says
All French patriot should vote for Erik Zemmour. He is one of the politicians in the present-day Europe
Check Burry says
I would vote for him too Maria, someone has to stop what is happening, and not just in france.
Rufolino says
Marine le Pen has overtaken Zemmour in the poles. Zemmour represents hope for French ciilisation.
Check Burry says
Spot on Jim, goebbels mark 2 is amongst us. I dont care if I have his name wrong.
They will do an an exhibition to show them french culture, non turned up from the mus hoards.
They aint interested.
Jim says
It probably will not make any difference at all because the Muslim Jihadis do not go to art museums and do not care about the multiculturalism globalism that the left preaches. I recall all the thousands of Holocaust memoir and historical works which supposedly will make people less anti-Semitic and more peaceful and democratic. They would presumably never be read by anyone considering antisemitic attacks. So, I would say this is simply actionism, because the politicians are not going to stop mass migration and also not going to enforce the laws against foreign cultural crime against Europe.
gravenimage says
This show is not for Muslims–not directly, anyway. It is intended to instill unearned guilt in French people, and convince them that they should not criticize any aspect of Islam or the actions of Muslims.
Check Burry says
I have to differ Jim, they do go to arty stuff, to blow em up, or burn em down. Notre Dame being one example.
Michael Copeland says
Yannick Lintz of the Louvre speaks of: “the historical reality of Islam, through 13 centuries of art, civilization, and intellectual life.”…
Memo to Yannick Lintz:
An organisation that promotes slavery, wife-beating, FGM, death for those who leave, apartheid from and hatred towards non-members, no free speech, no equality before the law, fails to qualify as a civilisation.
Michael Copeland says
When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia did France quickly provide exhibitions of German art, culture and intellectual life?
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
George Orwell was a prophet.
Søren Ferling says
Because he was a former insider in Fabian society – as was Huxley. They knew, what they were talkiing about.
Richard says
French Govt to Frenchmen – Please accept that followers of this barbaric, supremacist, violent, medieval religion are going to abuse your culture, mock your values, burn your cities, and also kill from time to time. Please be more accepting of this.
tim gallagher says
I can find nothing of any worth in islam whatsoever and I couldn’t give a damn if there are few good Muslim artists or not, so I wouldn’t waste a second of my time visiting this exhibition, which I think is a load of crap. Some of that Muslim architecture in Spain is impressive, but so what. Islam is a load of disgusting barbaric, evil garbage in endless different ways, so i consider that being favourably impressed by anything to do with islam makes as much sense as being impressed by any aspect of that other evil ideology, Nazism. There is nothing of worth in either of these evil ideologies. It is sickening the way the authorities try to get people to develop a favourable view of evil islam. I meet some Muslims who seem OK, but islam, no way is it anything but evil.
gravenimage says
Tim, as I noted these probably are not works by Muslim artists, but by Westerners. Likely French artists, in fact. There was a whole genre of “Oriental” work by mostly French and British artists, from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries.
gravenimage says
France: Government organizes Islamic exhibitions to teach the French to accept cultural differences
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Ah, yes–if only the “filthy French” were more tolerant of Muslims murdering them, all would be well! sarc/off
Alnd–a more minor point, but still salient–but the art in this picture is almost certainly *not* by Muslims, but done by Western artists in the 19th century.
Lavéritétriomphera says
So far as I know, it’s an exhibition on the arts of Islam, and we learn that the Islamic world is multicultural and heterogeneous https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Hauts-de-France/Actualites/Arts-de-l-Islam-un-passe-pour-un-present.
OLD GUY says
The islamic/muslim MONEY runs deep in our political systems.
OLD GUY says
Islam has bribed and purchased the western political leaders. Our political leaders won’t touch the immigration problems out of fear they will lose their cushy life style just by speaking out against open borders. We keep seeing them pass laws and approve deals for millions of dollars to be spent on helping illegals and refugees come to America. My guess is that in twenty five years America will be devastated by the islamic migration invasion. Thankfully I have lived through the best of America and won’t be here, but I have tears in my heart for my Great Grandchildren who will. It seems you just can’t fix stupid.
peter says
There are many ways to fool the gullible . The supreme example is Islam and the newer invention is pseudo secularism of our western leaders .Shame on Macron and Western leaders!