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Louvre opens Islamic art wing to the public
AFP – Paris’s famed Louvre museum on Saturday opened to the public a new wing of Islamic art in a bid to improve knowledge of a religion often viewed with suspicion in the West.
Costing nearly 100 million euros ($131 million), it is funded by the French government and supported by handsome endowments from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait, Oman and Azerbaijan.
About 3,000 precious works from the seventh to the 19th centuries are spread across 3,000 square metres (33,000 square feet) over two levels of the former palace.
Inaugurated by President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, the new wing holds 18,000 treasures from an area stretching from Europe to India and includes the oldest love letter in the Islamic world.
Denise Spacensky, one of the first visitors Saturday, said the opening came at an opportune time “with everything that is happening in the world”, stressing that the exhibits show “Islam as a refined, peaceful civilisation”.
“I hope it will open Westerners’ minds to the passionate past of Islamic civilisation, but also to the complex of Muslims who believe they are not understood,” said the retired teacher of Chinese art.
France is home to at least four million Muslims and leaders of the community say incidents of Islamophobia are on the rise against a background of confrontation with the authorities and rising suspicion of Muslims.
The Louvre opening comes as demonstrations are sweeping Muslim countries to protest a crudely made Internet video shot in the United States mocking Islam, and French cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Sophie Makariou, the head of the department of Islamic arts at the Paris museum, said the aim of the new wing was to show “Islam with a capital I.”
SNIP: Dear Frenchies;
This is a museum of appeasement. We all know it. muslims have been dotting your ” i ” for a long time now…You still haven’t learned!
reddecaesari
September 23rd, 2012
when will bfh’s exhibit be held?
Hybrid Lemon
September 23rd, 2012
Moslem Art à la merde.
serfer62
September 23rd, 2012
The muslim exhibit features
throwing rocks
stoning rocks
ass wiping rocks
dba_ vagabond_ trader
September 23rd, 2012
The Met in NYC too:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/30/arts/design/20111030-met-islamic-wing.html
Snowball the Sourpuss
September 23rd, 2012
“muslims have been dotting your ” i ” for a long time now…You still haven’t learned!”
Soon they’ll be crossing their T’s.
mkultra
September 23rd, 2012
Silly moose-limbs, goats can’t read.
Cynic
September 23rd, 2012
The most popular exhibit is the “finger painting with infidel blood”.
scr_north
September 23rd, 2012
Um, do they have a “Piss Muhammed”, because if they do I’ll go to watch the Muslims peacefully demonstrate their disappointment.
exceller
September 23rd, 2012
nice ancient artifacts but I’m still having trouble with the part about lopping of the heads of non believers.
Moe Tom
September 23rd, 2012
Any infidel who farts while visiting this holy shithole will be beheaded and then hung for good measure.
EinTX
September 23rd, 2012
Stupid surrender monkeys… We need to be more determined this time that we don’t go bail out a Vichy government. Let them speak muzzie gutteral and eat halal for the rest of their lives.
Xavier
September 23rd, 2012
“Islam as a refined, peaceful civilisation”.[sic]
The Louvre does fiction now? Damn I thought Barry & cohorts were the experts at rewriting history…
Carlos The Jackal
September 23rd, 2012
The smallest $131,000,000 art wing in existence.
Toaster
September 23rd, 2012
Ann Barnhardt posted this article from Gates Of Vienna in her Twitter feed. It’s worth the time to read.
The French are nuts. The fertility rate in France was 2.01 births per couple in 2010, the replacement rate is 2.1. France is the MOST fertile country in the EU, just behind Ireland.
They think that “importing” Moslem savages will make up for the fact that they’ve been aborting and contracepting themselves out of existence. In general, Moslems do not assimilate. They migrate to wage population jihad in many cases. This will not end well.
Lowell
September 23rd, 2012
How many exhibits are of art from the past 100 years?
Tim
September 23rd, 2012
You plant wheat, you get wheat.
You plant corn, you get corn.
You import filthy Satanic sand rats, …
Boobie the Rocket Dog
September 23rd, 2012
Why Paris? Because it is against sharia to hold graven images.
The closest they’re allowed to come is mosaic, and the two best works of mosaic moslem “art” are in Spain (Alcazár) and India (Taj Mahal).
Yowsa
September 23rd, 2012
Sophie Makariou, the head of the department of Islamic arts at the Paris museum, said the aim of the new wing was to show “Islam with a capital I.”
Capital I, as in:
Idiotic, Insignificant, Imbecilic, Inconsequential, Inane, Insane, Immaterial, Ignoble, Inelegant, Inept, Idolatrous, Irreverent, Immoral ?
Hope they have a portrait of Barry soetoro in the new wing.
Hybrid Lemon
September 24th, 2012
I’d like to see some of those glass sculptures produced by talented Middle East Nuclear Bombs.