A Message to Muslims: How to Protest Properly
Hossein Nouri, a paraplegic painter, paints a portrait of the Virgin Mary in front of the Danish embassy during a protest over the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad in several newspapers in Tehran February 13, 2006. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
This is the kind of Eteraz I can support. Eteraz is Farsi for Protest.
Wow! I love that painting. Hang it in the Museum!!!
This is indeed a powerful form of protest.
Very nice, indeed. I looked him up and found a website for him: http://www.nuri-art.com/ if you want to see more of his great work.
Excellent blog. Well done.
Ali, you’ve really done it this time. Finding such pictures.
Oh, by the way, Ali has said that he will be engaging in more third person commentary on his blog.
Hey, stop writing that stuff. It’s not been approved.
No.
Fine.
eteraz/ali, you sound like you need a vacation.
Hmmm…talk to SigCarl about the symptomatology of referring to oneself in the third person. You *could* do the first person plural and pretend you’re royalty, though. That would be cool.
Remember King Ethelred The Unready in early English history? How about King Eteraz The Protestor? Defender?
Come see my great insulting art work from Spain: an icon of “The Sacred Heart” (one of the Jesus variables) holding a Phoenix missile. I’m sure the *artiste* meant to be insulting to Christians, Spanish atheist that he is, but I find it way cool. It makes me smile.
It must be that in order to offend someone, they have to be willing to feel diminished. This piece is wonderful so it fails on its own terms. But not on mine.
And I thought you were on vacation???
This is very powerful and what a huge impact it would have if we all protested like this. Thank you Ali, and thank you Leena for the link to the artists web site, his work is so beautiful.
And now it’s about time Eteraz went on holiday, oops sorry, you call it vacation where you are, don’t you?
I wish more people knew about this.
man. now there’s someone who’s got it right. good post.
It’s a protest of the protestors. Fitting.
It would seem that Eteraz is actually Arabic for اعتراض
The ض is typically pronounced za’ rather than Dhad
I think different people react differently. Not every one is talented enough to paint, write or speak eloquently. Some just want to shout, throw stones or hurl a molotov cocktail against the cold dirty wall of a Danish embassy.
If most Muslims were as educated and enlightened as you are Ali the Ummah would not be where it is today.
The cartoons were intended to offend. The danish journalist who first ran the cartoons had previously sought the help of a certain Daniel Pipes ( self-proclaimed expert on Islam) to as he put it gain a better understanding of Muslims and what made them tick.
This in my humble opinion tells it all.
I personally have not seen nor intend to see the cartoons. Not because i think they bear any resemblance to Him (Sallallahu 3alyhi wa Sallam) but because if i did i would have proved that human voyeurism is stronger than any other impulse.
Other Muslims should follow Hossein Nouri. I admire his approch and achivement.
raheb
Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Ragheb Alama Website Team.
TO ALL MUSLIMS, THIS IS AMERICA,WE DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR CRYING COMPLANTS CONSERNING WHAT THE POPE SAID OR WHAT ANY BODY SAID ABOUT MUSLIMS, IN AMERICA ANY ONE CAN SAY WHAT EVER THEY WANT, AND IF YOU
ALL GET UPSET AND START COMPLANING JUST REMEMBER ONE THING, WE DONT LIKE MUSLIMS AND WE NEVER WILL,AND THAT IS OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO NOT LIKE YOU,AND TO SHOW YOU THAT YOUR ANI AMERICAN SENTIMENT WORKS BOTH WAYS, YOU DONT LIKE US AND WE DONT LIKE YOU , SO WHY DONT YOU STAY TA HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY AND GO BACK RO RIDING CAMELS IN THE DESERT WERE YOU BELONG, YOU DONT BELONG IN THIS COUNTRY,YOU WILL ALWAYS BE UNWANTED AND UNLIKED ,WERE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING IDENTIFICATION ON EVERY MUSLIM IN THIS COUNTRY SO YOU CAN BE IDENTIFIED JUST LIKE CATLE LOL, HOW YOU LIKE THEM BABANAS, YOUR NOT LIKED OR WANTED, AND THE ONES THAT WERE THAT BLACK SHIT FROM HEAD TO TOW,THEY GONA BE THE FIRST TO GET SHIPPED BACK TO THE MIDLE EAST,THA FANATICAL ONES,ALL COVERED UP LIKE THAT , NO NO NO I DONT THIK SO I DONT TRUST ANY OF YOU,NEVER MIND LETTING YOU COVER UP AND WALK AROUND THE MALLS ALL COVERED UP , THIS SHIT IS GONA STOP TRUST ME YOUR DAYS IN AMERICA ARE NUMBERED,GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY ,YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED IN THE USA NO ONE TRUST YOU OR WANT YOU AROUND
JAMES
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Don’t mind Jim. He probably just googles ‘muslim’ and hits Ctrl+V.
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Why the Muslims are spreaded though out all of Europe at first place? Why don’t they stay and live in their 57 world wide states and minimize the clashes of races?
Abe Bird, maybe if European countries weren’t so desperate for post-war labor, Muslims wouldn’t be so numerous in Western European states.
Ever stop to think about that? Retard.
Amazing…. Wonderful… Profound…
no aniconism?? good!
Superb! I really adore this kind of protest. But, i also fully understand why my fellow Indonesians yesterday hit the street to protest against Wilders film. Not everyone as poetic and artistic as Hossein Nouri, isn’t it?
Danial, you are repeating the known version of the phenomena (retard is quite un-necessary to support your ‘vision’. I was quite sarcastic). Why the Europeans except the cheap labor while the third world can’t stand on his feet economically and politically with the remain labor power? Europe sucks the best power of the poorest societies in the world and helps keeping it at their disastrous situation while still living with out facing the clashes sure to come.