Islamism fears kill Dutch display

Another case of preemptive cowardice. This is exactly how Islam has operated since the seventh century. Terrorize a people till they cringe, then demand Islam become the only religion. They also pull back and fester in hatred when slapped down militarily.
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN.NEWS.COM:

Islamism fears kill Dutch display
Matthew Campbell
January 15, 2008
THE Dutch are debating the limits of freedom of expression after an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Mohammed was forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit.
Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in The Netherlands last week, the artist, an Iranian exile who goes by the pseudonym of Sooreh Hera, said she had been threatened with execution. She accused the director of the municipal museum in The Hague of cowardice for caving in to Muslim extremists.
Her story is a reminder of the tensions that have put The Netherlands and other European countries on the front line, sending dozens of people threatened by extremists into hiding since 2004, when Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered on the street and his collaborator driven into exile.
This leaves Hera, 34, in no doubt that she is in real danger. "They said to me, 'We're going to burn you naked or put a bullet in your mouth'," she says, referring to menacing emails. "They say, 'Now you are locked in your home and you cannot go out anymore'."
She says that by photographing gay Iranian exiles in masks of Mohammed, the founder of Islam, and his son-in-law Ali, she had wanted to expose a hypocritical attitude towards homosexuality in countries such as Iran, where men can be hanged for homosexual conduct.
"They condemn homosexuality but in countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia it is common for married men to maintain relations with other men," says Hera. "Works of art can be provocative. It is not an artist's job just to paint flowers. Art should shine a light on social issues."
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