Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald demonstrates some admirable foresightedness as he begins planning now for the relocation of Europe's treasures:
When Eurabia is a fully-realized entity, what will become of European art? It's never too early to start planning.Memo to Philippe de Montebello: begin raising money now for that special "Louvre" wing of the Metropolitan that you are going to have to build in 10-20 years. It will require at least that time for all the planning. Actually not a wing -- I'm afraid you are going to have to have a space as big, or even bigger than the Louvre, because everything is going to have to be flown out if it is not to offend Muslim sensibilities, and you know what Muslims do to statutes and paintings of living things, don't you? And for the smaller museums, the Musee Guimet, the Musee Nissim Camondo, and all the rest -- well, why not just reproduce them, as is, and place them in nice cities and towns around the country?
First we (and England) got Panofsky, and Friedmann, and Jakob Rosenberg, and Rudolph Wittkower, and E. H. Gombrich, and Ernst Kitzinger, and Gisela Richter and George Hanfmann and Rudolf Arnheim and so many others, and all of the people they helped to train, and the standards they helped to raise and, for a while, maintain -- and now the art will soon be following.
Are we Americans lucky, or what?
Let's take this idea for a walk, shall we?The New Rijksmuseum might best be placed where there once stood Nieuw Amsterdam. Close to New York City, but not in it. Mamaroneck, Oyster Bay, Scarsdale so that first you can take in the Hals, Rembrandts, Ruisdaels, and the odd Vermeer, and then stop at well-advertised Zachy's just before getting on the train to go back to the city.
The New Prado, possibly as a tribute to the general Hispanidad, would best be placed either in Miami, or possibly in Texas, or New Mexico. The wild West will come to mean a bit more than sagebrush and the Durango Kid. A little hint of Felipe Segundo right outside Albuquerque, or San Diego, would be most appropriate.
The New National Gallery? Virginia, definitely Virginia. But where? Southside Virginia, Brookneal, and a hint of David K. E. Bruce and the English-Speaking Union? Or better, and more accessible to Washington, would be the riding country, the land of Three-Day Eventing, and admirers of Charles Chenevix French. Yes, possibly Upperville would do for the New National Gallery. And docents, winsome female docents, all of them, please, definitely FFV (First Families of Virginia). Or, if you insist, a handful of interns as well from the Main Line, and the farther shores of Long Island (Jamestown will do).
The New Uffizi? Here we have a problem. I'll leave this one up to you, dear reader. Where do you want to place all those sculptures, and paintings (say, of Guido da Montefeltro, or the Venus on a Half-Shell)which according to Sheik Al-Qaradawi's handy guide to what is haram and what halal, cannot be permitted to exist unless they have been vandalized and defaced, so that they no longer can command respect -- which respect would violate the laws of Allah.
Maybe we can cut a deal here, hmm? After all, Italy does contain 2/3 of the Western world's art treasures. Without Italy, Western civilization is unthinkable (that can't be said for Germany, I'm afraid, or for France). So let's throw the rest of Eurabia completely to the wolves, but Italy must be spared and kept free from Islam. And we Americans will guarantee its security (as, for other reasons, we will guarantee that other essential component in the spiritual heritage of the Western world, Israel).
But if the Muslims prove implacable, then we will have to bring over the contents of the Uffizi, and whatever statues of Michelangelo, Donatello, and others are all over the place, in the Piazza della Signoria, in Rome, everywhere -- lock, stock, and barrel, and offer them a refuge here. Possibly all those Americans now putting their tax-deductible dollars to work in the "Save Venice" Campaign, forgetting that the real sea that may swamp all of Italy, not just one city, consists of adherents of a grim ideology that commands the destruction of art works (and the recent destruction of Joseph's Tomb and of the Bamiyan Buddhas were simply the most recent examples of 1400 years of such destruction of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist artifacts and monuments).
Hanover Street and the North End in Boston being what they now are, with Big-Dig and gentrification changes in the works, one would have to opt for Little Italy and Mulberry Street. Yes, Gennaro, there is a Santa Claus -- and everyone can now visit the Uffizi Without Leaving Home.
And someday someone will write a book about all the art treasures of Italy, kept from harm, as in some fabulous fable, by being housed in the warm embrace of Little Italy, and Big America, the country with a heart. It will be a simple book, with pictures of some of the sculptures and paintings, carefully labelled (Mich-el-ang-e-lo), designed to introduce young children to the wonders of the fine arts. And that future book will be called:
"And To Think that I Saw It On Mulberry Street."
Oops. I think that title's been taken.
As Joe E. Brown once said, nobody's perfect.
Excellent idea.
We artful infidels should NEVER forget what happened to the Library of Alexandria when the Moslems took Egypt down.
This has been linked here before:
Veiled Venus
Frightening.
The Louvre is burning. As a matter of canonical dogma, muslims have committed culturecide for more than 13 centuries. It's a primative tribal conquest meme. The mad mullahs are even now talking about how to erase the archeological evidence of the pre-islamic Persian past, including the complete destruction of the remnants of Persepolis. Popular myth has it that Napolean's artillerymen practiced on the Sphinx but the truth is that muslims defaced the image centuries before Napolean's arrival on the Giza Plateau. It is a miracle that any artifacts from the ancient cultures of Mankind have survived muslim conquest. These are crimes not only perpetrated against the present generation of Humanity, but against all generations of Humankind, past, present and future.
All kidding aside, don't you think that after they take over France the Moslems will let the Louvre and Vincennes continue operating in order to generate revenue for the Ummah there?
And I have a precedent on my side, because the Arabians have let the Ka'aba continue operating for 1,390 years now, and the black meteorite in there is by all accounts an amazing work of art.
Circumabmulate. Counter-clockwise. 666.
Remember what happened to the Buddhas in Afghanistan?
"the black meteorite in there is by all accounts an amazing work of art."
-- from a posting above
The Hajaru 'l-Aswad, or Black Stone, what has been referred to here as the Magic Wonderstone, which in turn is placed within the black cube of the Ka'aba, is not an amazing work of art.
Here is the description from Burkhardt, who visited Mecca and managed to see it:
"It is an irregular oval, abot seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed; it looks as if the whole had been broken into as many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone, which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of toches and kisses it has received. It appeared to me like a lava, containing several small extraneous particles of a whitish and of a yellow subtance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown approaching to black. It is surrounded on all sides by a border composed of a substance which I took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel of a similar, but not quite the same, browning colour This border serves to support its detached pieces; it is two or three inches in breadfth, and rises a little about the seurface of the stone."
There is more in Burckhardt ("Travels in Arabia"), and there is also the description by Richard Burton, who also went to Mecca, and no doubt Snouck Hrgronje, another Infidel visitor, has described the stone. It is probably a meteorite, and similar meteorites, I was once told by a Kuwaiti in a moment of candor, exist elsewhee in western and northwestern Arabia.
Why this rough-hewn work of nature, though fallen from the sky and given a little brush-up, should be considered a work of art, is unclear. Perhaps, in the minds of Believers, the rough-hewn quality is not perceived, for in those minds there's a Divinity that shapes its ends. Perfectly understandable.
What would Shakespeare make of Islam or, for that matter, of Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Cornel West, Ward Churchill? Actually, I think he'd have been able to handle them all. And as for George Galloway, I suspect that in one of his villains -- not Iago, but another, or in one of the History Plays, he has already limned the likes of Al-Gallawi.
If stone-worship, adoration of the lith, is required, make mine the Blarney Stone.
"What would Shakespeare make of Islam or, for that matter, of Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Cornel West, Ward Churchill?"
-- posted by Hugh
I am offended that you neglected to mention Malik Zulu Shabazz.
After seeing him on O'Reilly last week (O'Reilly went all obsequious on this assertive man), I'm excited about this guy.
He even went to Harvard. Howard, Paris, and Cornell can't say that, can they.
Saving the ecclesiastic architecture will be more problematic. Do we want the stones of Chartres or Reims used to build muslim latrines?
Hugh, the cemented pieces of meteorite in the Cube were thought by the Arabs to have come from the moon, their chief of all Gods Al Ilah, whom IIRC they called Hubal or Ubal as in Ubal Qassim, supposedly the real name of the one the Mohammadans call "The Praised one".
The Arabs,and I suspect that no one at that time, had any idea that the non blinking stars in the sky, were planets, for that reason they were considered Gods, by all of the populations of the earth, until the advent of scientific inquiry and the telescope.
Can't imagine what they though the stars were, except as the Koran says, lights placed in the sky by Allah so people could see and travel at night.
As regards saving national treasures and art I feel that you are correct, and not even transporting same to the U.S. will save the day, if fedundity does win out, and in population wars, it always does, especially fecundity combined with a fanatic and totally cohesive, unquestionable ideology.. The whole world will be Muslim, at Faith Freedom Ramesh R. Desai seems to think it will be by 2501
I'm more pessimistic, considering their rate of reproduction, not only in their own land, but in Bilad al kufr as well. Here's some stats on Muslim population growth.Notice that Huntingdon et a project that by 2025 they will be 30% of the worlds population vs the Christian 30% and I've seen similar projections (and ejaculations of joy) from Canadian Muslim website
The danger here is that in a representative democracy, that it does not take an absolute majority of the population to gain control of government, all it takes is a cohesive minority (like the NAZI's and the Bolsheviks). I think that a cohesive dedicated block of 13 -15% would be enough for muslims to bend the government to their will, look at the control and influence that 5 to 10% affect in European Countries.
Maybe it's time to start thinking of storing art and artifacts of the world in deep salt mines in Kansas and then sealing them with concrete, less they go the way of the Statues of Bamiyan or the other art works that Muslims have put their hands on.
'Al-Gallawi' - nice one, Hugh. I'll borrow that, if you don't mind.
Maybe, just maybe he'll get his comeuppance. With the Volcker Report, the noose is tightening.
Thirty percent in 2025, my oldest child will be 25 the same year. My kids will have to face some serious problems because my generation is too busy kowtowing to the tenth-century savages that comprise the current islamic religion. What will I say to them when they ask why we didnt do more?
Oh well, Im at least able to muster a wan smile when I recall an old joke, one that would surely get me stoned to death by adherents of the 'religion of peace':
-President Bush is watching old Star Trek reruns with a handful of world diplomats, one of whom happens to be a muslim.
-After the show is over, the muslim leans over and says to Bush, "I noticed there werent any arabs on the Starship Enterprise".
-Bush gives the man a knowing smile and a little wink and says, "Thats because Star Trek takes place in the future".
"Malik Zulu Shabazz." Nut job 101.
The current Rubens exhibition "A master in the Making" is being advertised on the London underground with this painting...
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/rubens/w172_lrg.htm
It is one of the few Rubens paintings where the women (and men) in the scene aren't half naked - like the lovely Deliah with her tits out:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/rubens/feature/feature6_1_lrg.htm
I wonder if not offending "other cutures/religions" had something to do with this choice.
By the way, I would suggest leaving behind some beautiful full-scale replicas of the Venus di Milo at various Eurabian museums.......each packed with about 10 kilos of RDX, so that the savages who destroy them will immediately find themselves in the company of their prophet in Hades.
1630r, I think it's very subtly just the opposite. St George, our under-represented national saint, a Christian knight slaying the dragon which represents evil (and what do we know on the London underground that is evil? Give you one guess) With the beautiful blonde maiden behind him holding another symbol, the lamb (of God, who takes away the sins of the world).
Much more offensive to Islam, if they but knew it.
They can keep Tracy Emin’s shit and I will personally give the Mohammadans the petrol to burn her works.
But I wouldn’t write off Europe quite yet. I agree current demographics, particularly in France and the Netherlands are scary. (They and my son keep me up at night) I believe it was Gille Keppel or Oliver Roy who was quoted in the quarterly “National Interest” that France’s population will be half-Muslim by mid-century if current Muslim growth rates and immigration continue unabated.
Sooner or later, most infidels will cotton onto these figures and do something about it. Will it mean some European countries turning Fascist? Perhaps, although I don’t think we will be seeing the re-opening of Sobibor or Treblinka. A military coup in France is not a so far-fetched scenario given the French military’s propensity in the past to enter politics during national emergencies. The French military is still a very conservative and Catholic institution and it will become increasingly more so as it abandons conscription and becomes more professional. Here are a few cases which show where our Gallic friends sympathies lie: NATO’s bombing offensive against Yugoslavia, and the leaked story about a French senior officer forwarding secrets to the Yugoslav military. Or when French troops stood idly by when Serbs assassinated Bosnia’s deputy premier in Sarajevo, while he was under French protection. (A truly odious act which outraged nearby Brit soldiers)
Worryingly there are quite a few beurs (North Africans) in its ranks. I have a photo of a French Marine in Kosovo with Allahu Akbar scrawled across the front of his helmet, and if memory serves, I recall Serb civilians complaining about the number of Arabs in the French units stationed in Kosovo. It will be interesting to see what side these troops choose when the army is ordered into the Muslim banlieue. I certainly don’t relish Europe’s future, it’s going t be a real shit shower; a lot of innocents are going to die. It’s too bad that the only people discussing this future threat are Le Pen’s National Front or Nick Griffin’s BNP. Interesting times ahead, certainly for the cultural anthropologists.
Here is a report from the Hadith that describes just one of the many examples of Mohammad's obsessiveness and phobia regarding pictures or representational art.
Hadith -Bukhari 4:47, Narrated 'Aisha
I stuffed for the Prophet a pillow decorated with pictures (of animals) which looked like a Namruqa (i.e. a small cushion). He came and stood among the people with excitement apparent on his face. I said, "O Allah's Apostle! What is wrong?" He said, "What is this pillow?" I said, "I have prepared this pillow for you, so that you may recline on it." He said, "Don't you know that angels do not enter a house wherein there are pictures; and whoever makes a picture will be punished on the Day of Resurrection and will be asked to give life to (what he has created)?"
Cited from
http://muttaqun.com/pictures.html
Some of the religious-ideological justifications for these restrictions on representations can be found at
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/tawheed/abdulwahab/KT1-chap-58.html