Mohammed art gone

Score another victory for the Islamists.  Now the Metropolitan Museum of Art has submitted to Muslim demands to not display images of the Pedophile Mohammed.  In what has become a regular display of abject cowardice the museum has become another dhimmified Western subject to Islam.  the sub title of this article is "Is the Met Afraid of Mohammed?"  The answer is that the Met is pissing it's collective pants in terror.



Just for fun, here are two illustrations of Mohammed the pedophile by Lars Vilks.  Mr. Vilks lives under 24 hour protection because there are Muslims who wish to kill him.

FROM NYPOST.COM:

Mohammed art gone
By ISABEL VINCENT

Is the Met afraid of Mohammed?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art quietly pulled images of the Prophet Mohammed from its Islamic collection and may not include them in a renovated exhibition area slated to open in 2011, The Post has learned.

The museum said the controversial images -- objected to by conservative Muslims who say their religion forbids images of their holy founder -- were "under review."
Critics say the Met has a history of dodging criticism and likely wants to escape the kind of outcry that Danish cartoons of Mohammed caused in 2006.

NY Post: Chad Rachman NO-HAMMED: The Met Museum's images of Mohammed are no longer in view -- to avoid offense, critics say.

"This is typical of the Met -- trying to avoid any controversy," said a source with inside knowledge of the museum.

The Met currently has about 60 items from its 60,000-piece Islamic collection on temporary display in a corner of its vast second-floor Great Hall while larger galleries are renovated. But its three ancient renderings of Mohammed are not among them.
"We have a very small space at the moment in which to display the whole sweep of Islamic art," said spokeswoman Egle Zygas. "They didn't fit the theme of the current installation."
But it's not certain Mohammed will go on display when the Met finishes its $50 million renovation in 2011.

Three years ago, the Met changed its "Primitive Art Galleries" to the "Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas" for the sake of political correctness, said author Michael Gross, author of "Rogues' Gallery," a book about the Met.
Just recently, it decided its highly anticipated "Islamic Galleries" will be given an awkward new name ahead of the 2011 opening. Visitors will stroll around rooms dedicated to art from "Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia," according to a museum press release.

Islamic art expert Kishwar Rizvi said the Met -- which has one of the world's best Islamic collections -- has nothing to fear from Mohammed.
"Museums shouldn't shy away from showing this in a historical context," said Rizvi, historian of Islamic Art at Yale University.
Rizvi said it was "a shame" the museum dropped the word Islamic from the title.
"It's cumbersome and problematic to base it on nationalistic boundaries," the historian said.