Tunisia: Man dies from injuries he got during Islamic riots over "un-Islamic" art exhibition

Ah, the Arab Spring in full flower. "Tunisia: Man dies in Salafite clashes over 'un-Islamic' art exhibit," from AKI, June 13 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Tunis, 13 June (AKI) - A 22-year-old Tunisian man has died from the injuries he sustained during violent clashes in the east Tuesday between police and Salafites angered by an art exhibition they claim offends Muslims, local website al-Sabeel reported.

Al-Sabeel named the Tunisian as Fahmi al-Aouni and said he died in clashes in the coastal city of Sousse that left 10 people injured. Clashes also took place in the capital, Tunis.

The riots came a day after the Spring of Arts exhibition in Tunis's upscale La Marsa suburb sparked an outcry from some the puritanical Salafites who say it insulted Islam.

The work that appears to have caused most fury amongst hardliners spelt out the name of God using insects.

I guess Allah didn't create insects.

Police imposed a curfew late Tuesday after thousands of Salafites rampaged in through parts of Tunis, hurling rocks and petrol bombs at police stations, a court house and the offices of secular parties....
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I never thought I'd be reading news like this in the year of Our Lord 2012. Utter insanity. And perfect Islam!

Actually, writing out god's name - any god, whether Celtic, Norse, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian or muslim - using natural media such as stones, moss, twigs, flowers and even insects, makes a great deal of sense if one believes god created all things.

Art exhibition = Haram, First degree murdre = Halal.

Islam, the religion of love, the religion of peace, if you disagree with me... i'm gonna cut your head off.

Ah, Muslims being . . . well, Muslims . . .

WE ARE AT WAR!

Muslims Gone Wild. Again. Death follows. Yawn.

Gimme a break ...

islam & company are the INSULT here!

They insult truth, they insult women and children, they insult common sense ...they insult humanity on the whole in every way imaginable, and in ways truly unimaginable through their heinous honor killings and terrorist attacks, etc.

Have you insulted Mohammed today?

Don't forget! Make it a daily habit!

This artist really bugged the cockroach supremacists.

Muslims are not offended by demonic acts - murder, killing, looting, raping, worshiping their pedo-god Mo/allah,lying, cheating etc, etc, - all those holy acts of Islam. But they are offended by the sight of human beings and their art and beautiful creations. Go figure these morons!!

OT but great news - just saw on my local TV news (Toronto Canada) that an appeal by the Fort Dix U.S. jihadis has been turned down. Yes! another victory for we freedom lovers!

OT, but wasn't there an article here a day or two ago about anti-semitism in present-day Germany? I can't find it now. What happened to it?

I have no idea whether Fahmi al-Aouni was one of the decent Tunisians who died trying to protect this art—protectors tried to form a human chain around the gallery—, if he was a Jihadist himself who ran afoul of his fellow Jihadists, or if he was some random person who got caught up in the insanity.

But I do know that this man was—like so many before him—killed by Islam.

From the article:

The riots came a day after the Spring of Arts exhibition in Tunis's upscale La Marsa suburb sparked an outcry from some the puritanical Salafites who say it insulted Islam.

The work that appears to have caused most fury amongst hardliners spelt out the name of God using insects.
.....................................

And for this they are *murdering people*.

No one died for Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ". No one died for Chris Ofili's Virgin Mary painted in dung.

But the body count for art that has "offended" pious Muslims is vast, and growing...

God, I hate Islam.

Only 1 dead??

I am disappointed - I think these guys are losing their touch and just starting to just mail it in.

I have seen in the past where "management" deletes an article that it determines was OT or is getting slammed in the comments, as that one was...

The work that appears to have caused most fury amongst hardliners spelt out the name of God using insects.

I guess Allah didn't create insects.

He did but he called them muslims and gave them multiple personality disorders.

Allah's pretty useless if you think about it. I curse him on a regular basis and not once has he struck me down with a bolt of lightning. I guess this cry-baby puny god has to get Muslims to fight for him because he can't do it himself!

Hey Bob - you too?!

I wipe my a$$ with the Koran - still nothing.

"Art exhibition = Haram, First degree murdre = Halal.

Islam, the religion of love, the religion of peace, if you disagree with me... i'm gonna cut your head off."

Meryl, this sums it up!
All of it!

It seems that Islam discourages symbolical thinking starting from birth. At some point an insect is a bad biting dirty thing (the concept of God's creation eradicated from the mind), and the Koran is Mo himself.
Islam is a perpetuated thinking disorder that urges a psychotic perception of the world and equates symbol with representation.
People with creative thinking are fed to the Allah furnace.

"The work that appears to have caused most fury amongst hardliners spelt out the name of God using insects."

Must have come a little too close to the truth and struck a nerve. Guess who Allah really is..

Beelzebub = Lord of the flies = Satan

Islam Macht Frei wrote:

Only 1 dead??
......................

That's how you know Tunisia is a "moderate" Muslim nation...sarc/off

the artist must've used praying mantises, not stink bugs with the backside high

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