Levying costs for police protection (that they deem is necessary) is intimidation, and an attack on free speech.
Kick out the tards and you’ll have more than enough cash on hand to safeguard your citizens expressing that fundamental right.
IRONY ALERT: ARTWORK MOCKING ISIS REMOVED FROM FREE SPEECH EVENT FOR BEING ‘INFLAMMATORY’
A piece of satirical artwork mocking the Islamic State (IS) has been removed from a free speech event in London, after police warned it was “inflammatory.”
The Syrian-born Jewish artist behind the work said she created it to challenge the idea that tackling extremism is somehow “racist” and spoke of the “threat to… freedom” posed by “Islamic fascism” after her art was censored.
The name of the work is Isis Threaten Sylvania. It consists of a series of seven models in light boxes, depicting scenes reminiscent of recent terrorist attacks. The model featuring children’s soft toys called the Sylvanian Families, who are being stalked by other heavily armed soft toys called “MICE IS.”
However, the work was removed from the Passion for Freedom exhibition at the Mall galleries in London after police raised concerns about its “potentially inflammatory content,” The Guardian explained in a review of the work.
More here. H/T: Buck
beware because next they’ll remove your tong.
Pretty curious. We have been told time and time again that IS has absolutely nothing to do with genuine Islam and our pseudo-intellectual quacks in the West are very eager to claim that IS itself is continually making a travesty of Islam by what they are doing. Getting panicky seems to be the most illogical thing to be doing in this context: if you make a satire of fanatics that are widely deemed distorters of genuine Islam in the West, than why on earth are these people concerned about trampling on the sensitivities of purportedly genuine Muslim communities by creating such an exhibition, criticizing puritans on the alleged fringes of Islam, as we have been led to believe ? Surely, there should be no need for such a kneejerk tail-between-the-legs reaction. Unless of course they’re now implicitly admitting, of sorts, that the Islamic State’s ‘distorted’ Islam is actually much more akin to the widespread ‘genuine’ Islam the vast majority of Muslims in the West adhere to ?
Interesting conundrum and a clear contradictio in terminis if ever there was one.
It’s an amazing example of cognitive dissonance, on the one hand they insist that you can’t link (equate) I.S. with mainstream Islam and other muslims, and then they go and do just that, they themselves LINK mainstream Islam and muslims in general with Islamic State. LOL!