CARICATURES DU PROPHETE (PAIX ET BENEDICTION D'ALLAH SUR LUI)
Bravo: Lars Vilks to paint Mohammed after latest Islamic death threats
Posted on February 23, 2013
by creepingsharia
STOCKHOLM — A Swedish artist who received
death threats after depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog said
Wednesday he would display new paintings of the prophet at an exhibition
in the immigrant-heavy city of Malmoe later this year.
“It’s important to continue because if you
yield to the threats and back away, you have abandoned the democratic
principle,” Lars Vilks said.
The artist has faced numerous death
threats since his drawing of the Muslim prophet with the body of a dog
was first published by Swedish regional daily Nerikes Allehanda in 2007,
illustrating an editorial on the importance of freedom of expression.
The new paintings of Mohammed would show
the prophet — still with a dog’s body — in famous works by artists
including Claude Monet, Peter Paul Rubens and Anders Zorn, Vilks said.
It was “hard to tell” whether the July
exhibition at a gallery in Sweden’s third largest city, Malmoe, would
prompt more protests and threats, he said.
“At some point this has to be over and done with,” he said.
With one in three of its residents born
outside Sweden, Malmoe has been at the centre of a polarising Swedish
debate on immigration.
The city’s Islamic Centre estimates there are 100,000 people with “a Muslim background” in the area.
The city’s Islamic Centre estimates there are 100,000 people with “a Muslim background” in the area.
In 2009, Colleen LaRose, an American woman
calling herself “Jihad Jane”, was arrested in the US with seven others
for plotting to kill Vilks. She has pleaded guilty to terror charges and
faces life behind bars.
Three men accused of plotting to murder
him at an art fair were acquitted by a Swedish court in January, but
were fined for weapons possession.
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