Salaam
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Trumble
What do you have against the Guardian by the way? With the Independent it's one of the two most liberal of the British 'quality' papers, it's audience tends towards the moderate left, and as has no 'anti-Islamic' agenda I've ever noticed.
That’s naive. . . .
Guardian is
very unfriendly towards Islam to put it mildly, but being a 'liberal' paper its much more subtle than the more honest and direct Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail.
The paper is very anti-faith in general, and to be fair to Christians they regularly get in the neck, but again that’s hardly surprising. It’s run by secularists and atheists and they have their agenda.
Just one random example, remember the Popes visit to the UK? The Guardian and Independent really went off the deep end, predicting the visit would be a disaster, low attendance, Church abuse scandal and just general 'No Popery' in general. As the visit became a success with large turnouts, the Guardian did a reverse ferret (commercial reasons?) though the Independent heroically continued the denunciation of the visit. Though after the visit it did offer a belated apology of sorts after the dust had settled.
With regards to the Guardian have you ever read the comments particularly in the belief sections? I wouldn’t advise anybody to go there, its
dire.
To illustrate, the specturm of debate is limited to:
At one side you have the Atheists (mainly of the Dawkinite variety) who view religion as a ‘virus’ or ‘contagion’ of the mind and consider raising a child in a religious household as a form of ‘child abuse’. Since Religion is an ‘evil’ there can be no accommodation and it must be eradicated to ‘save’ mankind. They not only want to banish religion from the public space but would like to banish it from the private sphere as well.
At the more tolerant end there are secularists who are willing to accept the second best solution of confining religion to the private sphere as a matter of individual choice, a kind of pointless hobby. So they’d rather use ‘soft’ methods to secularise the Muslim population (thus undermining Islam) by showing them how they ‘should’ behave.
The Guardian and the Independent are
not friends of Muslims (or others faiths for that matter) in any way shape or form.
On the actual question, I don’t think much of the exhibition and one should protest but you can’t really stop artwork like this appearing :(