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Museum stops art work from Lars Vilks for fear of re-inviting past bad scenes

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Jamtli, county museum in Ostersund, has decided to cancel a work by Lars Vilks, the man who happens to have stirred up anti Muslim sentiments in the Scandinavia.

The management justifies its decision to eliminate Lars Vilks from the planned participation in an anti-Muslim conference in New York, arranged by Sion (Stop Islamization Of Nations) and Vilks media comments about Islam, reports swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

Lars Vilks works was supposed to be one of several in Jamtli and Jämtland County Art Association's upcoming show in the fall titled "Udda & Jämt" translated "Odd & similar."

Those responsible for the cancellation emphasizes in a press release that the Foundation, Jamtli release defending both freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but did not intend to act as "a platform for the type of message that Lars Vilks put forward" but to "promote unity and respect for minority rights and opportunities ".

Lars Vilks, is the Swedish cartoon artist allegedly targeted by 'Jihad Jane' for portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog. He was attacked in May 2010 when he showed an Iranian film that depicts the Prophet in a gay bar.

Vilks made his rough sketch in 2007 more than a year after 12 Danish newspaper cartoons of the prophet sparked furious protests in Muslim countries in 2006.

A Swedish newspaper printed the drawing, leading to further protests, and revived a heated debate in the West and the Muslim world about religious sensitivities and the limits of free speech.

It also led to numerous death threats against Vilks, who was temporarily moved to a secret location after al-Qaida in Iraq put a $100,000 bounty on his head in September 2007.
by Scancomark.se Tean

 

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