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| Aussie art in Islamic morality hoax |
| 2005-07-01 |
| The theft of art and tall tales from Islamic websites are not the sort of thing you would expect to hit the Crikey bunker, but Patricia Piccinini – older sister of Mrs Crikey and prominent contemporary artist – has been quite shocked by developments over the past few weeks. In May, Patricia and her artist husband Peter Hennesey noticed a sharp uptick in the traffic through Patricia's website, which now carries a front page explanation of what is quite a disturbing hoax. Site usage had surged from a healthy 150,000 page views in April to a record 950,000 in May. A quick look at the "top referrers" didn't just show Google and various art magazines or galleries, but also websites such as Somalia Online. A few days later they received the first email referring to the use of one of Patricia's works – a cropped image from the sculpture The Leather Landscape – in a hoax. The hoax was posted on an Arabic language website www.alnilin.com and recounted the story of how a girl was transformed into an animal after throwing a copy of the Koran on to the ground. Picture at link....ya gotta laugh. |
| Posted by:Ebbavirt Fleremp9245 |
| #6 LOL on both of you! Easy date - she looks omniverous |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-01 23:08 |
| #5 I've seen worse |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-01 22:54 |
| #4 akoy. whon teh wize ass hoo stolerd me pichures of exwife4doo. >:( |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-07-01 17:12 |
| #3 Dear Mahmoud Allah Mohammed, Yes. Imam |
| Posted by: Imam 2005-07-01 12:10 |
| #2 Dear Imam, I look at animal girl who throw Koran on floor on alnilin.com. I find combination of girl and animal very attractive. Will my eyes melt and my head explode? Mahmoud Allah Mohammed |
| Posted by: Mahmoud Allah Mohammed 2005-07-01 09:21 |
| #1 ....a girl was transformed into an animal after throwing a copy of the Koran on to the ground. So kids, don't let this happen to you! Remember! Keep the Koran in the toilet, where it belongs! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-01 09:03 |