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2006-10-13 Europe

The Great Louvre Arab Garage Sell : "Scorched Earth"

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-13 10:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oops, I left out the final comment of the Galliawatch blog owner :

Is it safe to say that the French government, in need of money, is being sustained by the Arab countries, in exchange for the French patrimony? In short, has France sold her soul to the devil? This is, indeed, Eurabia in action.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-13 10:50|| 2006-10-13 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the work of a bunch of dead old white men. There's really nothing to be proud of in that musty ol' attic anyways. Surely France has grown beyond the mandate of their colonialist and oppressive past. Let bygones be bygones, man. Look to the future! Soon it will be 1968 all over again...or better yet, 668.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-10-13 11:28|| 2006-10-13 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 This is probably a good thing. Hate for all of those wonderful artifacts to burn in one place.

5089 - hope you are keeping your exit plan up to date. No time like the present to get started. Passport up to date, some cash in another country, and a plan on where to go.

Posted by anon 2006-10-13 12:23|| 2006-10-13 12:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I would think art would not be very safe in an Arab country that thinks "everything" but suffering and banging your head against the ground is haram. Islam seems to find grevious fault with anything not closely associated with drudgery and nihilism.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-13 13:03|| 2006-10-13 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The French State, for financial and diplomatic reasons, is prepared to prostitute definitively our national patrimony, to compromise our collections and to deprive the French and the tourists of what was patiently assembled by past generations.

How nice to see France finally aligning its cultural and governmental policies.

With the typical Islamic ban on all dipictions of human or animal forms, this sort of limits a lot of what can be displayed. Rodin will be most definitely haram. How about Picasso? Will they even be able to recognize the human forms in his work? Will they actually qualify as deliberate representations? I can just hear the fatwah engines revving up over this as I type these words.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-13 13:45|| 2006-10-13 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Who is this "France" you speak of?

Posted by Hyper 2006-10-13 20:56|| 2006-10-13 20:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee, Taiwan... understandable. Dubai? Insane. If it will come to pass re Dubai, much will be later lost. Sure, even more will be lost if the art remains in France.

There was only a handfull of people that could have predicted this, 10 years ago. It does not give me any pleasure to see them being right.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-13 23:16|| 2006-10-13 23:16|| Front Page Top

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