I read that the Saatchi gallery in London has covered up a couple of paintings as a result of complaints from some Muslim visitors claiming that they were "blasphemous". Many liberal commentators have expressed concern that free-speech and freedom of expression are being attacked and have protested the act of censorship, including think-tank Quilliam (staffed mainly by liberal Muslims) The images are kind of collages of symbolic images such as the American flag, Islamic script and a classical nude figure, all designed to represent the conflict between these things in reality. I have included one of the two images (above) under dispute so that you can make your own mind up, in my tradition and culture, this is your right.
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