“Passion for Freedom,” eh? Not so much.
When did everyone (and I do mean everyone) decide that cowardice and appeasement were the proper responses to violent Islamic intimidation? When did everyone (and yes, I mean everyone) decide that the freedom of speech was expendable enough to be sacrificed, and Sharia blasphemy laws worth submitting to, for the sake of a few more moments of peace?
The UK is finished as a free society. It’s just a matter of time before chaos engulfs that unhappy land, and the appeasers realize yet again that their submission did not satiate the oppressors.
“Artwork showing Sylvanian Families terrorised by Isis banned from free speech exhibition,” by Claire Armitstead, Guardian, September 26, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Visitors to a London exhibition celebrating freedom of expression this week found plenty of familiar taboo-busting work, from Jamie McCartney’s The Great Wall of Vagina, an eight-foot long cast featuring the genitals of 400 women, to Kubra Khademi’s video of an eight-minute walk she made through Kabul in Afganistan, dressed in lushly contoured body armour. But they will have looked in vain for one work detailed in the catalogue by an artist known only as Mimsy.
Isis Threaten Sylvania is a series of seven satirical light box tableaux featuring the children’s toys Sylvanian Families. It was removed from the Passion for Freedom exhibition at the Mall galleries after police raised concerns about the “potentially inflammatory content” of the work, informing the organisers that, if they went ahead with their plans to display it, they would have to pay £36,000 for security for the six-day show.
In Isis Threaten Sylvania, rabbits, mice and hedgehogs go about their daily life, sunning themselves on a beach, drinking at a beer festival or simply watching television, while the menacing figures of armed jihadis lurk in the background. “Far away, in the land of Sylvania, rabbits, foxes, hedgehogs, mice and all woodland animals have overcome their differences to live in harmonious peace and tranquility. Until Now,” reads the catalogue note. “MICE-IS, a fundamentalist Islamic terror group, are threatening to dominate Sylvania, and annihilate every species that does not submit to their hardline version of sharia law.”
The decision to remove the work from Passion for Freedom came after the Mall Galleries consulted the police, who raised “a number of serious concerns regarding the potentially inflammatory content of Mimsy’s work”. The gallery cited a clause in the exhibition contract which allowed it the right to request removal of an artwork.
The organisers of the not-for-profit organisation said: “To our shock the highlighted work was humorously mocking the despised terrorist organisation that causes suffering to many, not only in the Middle East, but also here, in Europe and the America,” adding that, in view of the decision, the word “uncensored” had been removed from all their publicity for the show….

Gary says
“The governments of the world should know that . . . Islam will be victorious in all the countries of the world, and Islam and the teachings of the Qur’an will prevail all over the world.”—Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, January 1979
….and the West just continues to appease the “Supreme Leader”
Wake up world. Wake up.
Sh. N. says
That’s why I name Khomeini, grandfather of new generations of terrorists. Khamenei, Bin Laden, Baghdadi, … are all his spiritual sons and fathers of these extremists. Despite their differences they all are the same in their desire to eradicate freedom. Islamic iran’s successful oppression has been a great example to jihadists. And this recent Iran Deal will make them to achieve their goals faster.
Gary says
“We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world. . . . We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups, and nations. It’s a universal ideology that leads the world to justice. . . . We must prepare ourselves to rule the world.”—Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, January 5, 2006.
Tick Tock… Tick Tock….
Oh look! A….. “Cool Clock kid”
Gary says
“We do not believe in multiple Islamic republics; we do believe, however, in a single Islamic world governed by a central government.”—Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
Hey…. Doesn’t the bible speak of a “One World Government”
How would we know…. Our President continues to tell us to get off our high horse.
Islam: “We don’t need to see their identifications. These aren’t the terrorists we’re looking for.”
Gary says
“Go about your business. Move along. Move along.”
……And the West continues in blindness.
My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
خَليفة says
Mathematically speaking:
Freedom = ( 1 / Islam )
ECAW says
That’s good!
Jack Diamond says
chickenshit. Mice-IS chickenshit. First they came for the hedgehogs and I did not speak out…
خَليفة says
Then they came for the rabbits and I did not speak out…
Kepha says
Having a granddaughter who’s going on four, I rather like this!
Gary says
Then they came for my family because President Obama allowed C.A.I.R. and the Muslim “Brotherhood” to take away any and every right I had under The Constitution of The United States of America.
Gary says
And yes Mr. Obama, I know you monitor this site.
If you take away my freedom, I will only continue to expose the lie of Islam!
You do not “Strike Terror” in my heart.
I will fear the living God. The Alpha & Omega. Jesus, Mr. President, Is Lord!
You have no power here.
….move along. Move along.
Jay Boo says
And then we dressed up effigy dolls of Muhammad in an orange jumpsuit and held them hostage on a live broadcast show and threatened to behead each one unless Muslims act like decent human beings.
The whole Islamic world then trembled in fear because even though they knew the effigies of Muhammad was not actually Muhammad, they realized that Muhammad’s claim of being a prophet is so fragile that to have anyone mock him might shine the light of day onto all of his disgraceful existence.
ECAW says
Oh no! I’ve used it myself:
https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/hooray-im-not-a-fascist-2/
Rather than raising concerns about the “potentially inflammatory content” the Police should be honest and admit “We’re all scared shitless of those pesky Muslims”.
I hope the gallery leaves a big hole in their exhibition with a big sign saying “Removed due to intimidation”.
LeeZee says
A missed opportunity to arrest a hoard of activist Jihadis. Of course, they would claim that it was a police set-up to ferret out potentially murderous terrorists. Make them come to you, instead of trying to find them. What happened to MI5, the CIA, all those agencies that used to be effective in protecting and defending our Freedoms. I’m sure the KGB is still operating to the benefit of Putin. I hope Mossad is still working on behalf of their Nation. When did the World’s leaders become such lily-livered cowards? Looks like our Manchurian Candidate leader is continuing to wield his deconstructive, dismantling magic. Nero fiddled, BO golfs. Same old, same old. And the overly venerated Pontiff, instead of protecting his flock, helps lead them to the slaughter. The World has fallen down the Rabbit Hole along with Alice.
Tbone says
Uh hello the head of the cia is a muslim as are many of oblamy senior cabinet. If it looks like a duck,quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it most likely is a duck.(obama taqiya =muslim) God we have become a bunch of useless spineless cunts we have let mudslimes with their sharia and other filth wreck civilization for the foreseeable future as we know it. Let’s hope enough sane people of earth will come together and eradicate this disease called islam.
Karen says
That would have been refreshingly honest, and given people better information for making their decisions to attend. The people who choose not to submit can attend, and the people who are undecided can stay home. But instead we make up excuses, and blame the art work.
jayell says
Now, I thought that all the good, peaceful muslims (of which we’ve been told there are millions in the UK) disapproved of ISIS because it was ‘not true islam’, or even ‘not islam at all’ (i.e., gave them a bad name, so they’re going to tell porkies to try and kid us that they and their religion of peace and eternal love and joy are such a benefit to us and the universe – well, they’re living off our ‘benefits’ at least?) why is it going to upset all these muslims if we say a few nasty things about ISIS? Wouldn’t we be agreeing with them? Or is it that THEY can say and do what THEY want but WE can’t? In fact, are we allowed to say or do anything? In our own country?
(PS. Glossary for those across the pond. ‘Porkies’ = ‘Pork Pies’ = ‘Lies’. Bit of cockney rhyming slang, me old mates.)
Gary says
The motto use to be: “If you see something, say something.”
President Obama has changed that motto to: “Get off your high horse: Islam. My protected species.”
George S. says
The organizers of the Passion for Freedom exhibition should seriously seek out a good lawyer who is familiar with taking this sort of intimidation to Court. Both the Police as well as the Mall Galleries should be sued in Court so that intimidation based on hearsay and stupid police “suspicions” can be squashed, and the parties made to pay the organizers.
1984, and getting worse…. Rivers of Blood will flow and pretty soon… and Churchill was RIGHT! he wrote in his book The River War in 1899, “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
LeeZee says
Light-bulb moment!…Could the above quote and obviously unclouded eye and mind of Churchill be the reason our Potus had Winston’s bust removed from the White House? Hmmmm?
Tbone says
Ding ding we have a winner get that man a cigar!
Michael Copeland says
Print your own Churchill on Islam wallet cards:
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6066-churchill-on-islam-wallet-cards
Angemon says
Relax – islam is a religion of peace. Muslims wouldn’t be upset if you poked fun at those who distort their religion, would they?
Dave J says
In the old pre-Islam days we had freedom of speech and it was illegal to threaten with violence.
Now we allow ourselves to be cowed and intimidated by savages and the police are on their side.
People say they won’t accept Sharia law – too late, its already here and so is dhimmitude and jizra. You pay your taxes and the government gives it to jihadis as benefits.
Ted says
You are sadly very correct.
vlparker says
The children and grandchildren of the WWII generation are the biggest bunch of cowards in the history of the planet.
Tiredofstupid says
I spent 27 months in viet nam and my kids generation went to Iraq so I don’t think you can call us cowards-Where were you? Of course we’re American, Can’t speak for the E.U.
Paul says
“It’s just a matter of time before chaos engulfs that unhappy land, and
the appeasers realize yet again that their submission did not satiate the
oppressors.” – well, maybe the sooner the better while we are still in the
majority. It’ll be left to the hated, the despised and the betrayed ‘underclass’
to sort out as usual.
Dave J says
“Passion for Freedom” ?
Apparently not enough passion or freedom.
Empty space: This exhibit has been successfully repressed from view by the Islamofascists.
patechinois says
Wait…I thought ISIS had nothing to do with Islam????? Why the concern that this would offend Muslims if ISIS has nothing to do with ISLAM?!?!?!
More Ham Ed says
According to event organizers, security “teams”, “the police”, liberals, the mainframe media, and many others, the inflammatory content is not ISIS, but rather those who report on ISIS or expose what it is doing.
Truth Seeker says
The day when UK will transform to UC (United Caliphate) is not Far. Present Steps by Rulers show like that.
azad radd says
shame on British Authority, do anything to please muslims… money talks.
djphoenix says
It is interesting to note something is removed from a free speech exhibit.
Don Foss says
If America is going to take tens of thousands of refugees, let’s just take all the native infidel Brits and Germans who need or want to get out of their countries because of ther dangerous PC policies.
Kepha says
Hell, no, Don Foss. We took in all those bearers of Weimar anti-culture in the Hitler years, and they repaid us by fostering the New Left (the same wonderful people now leaving us naked before the Furor Islamicus). Federal Germany took in all the “independent” Marxists fleeing the late, unlamented DDR, and got groups like the Bader-Meinhof gang in return. If the European refugees start fleeing to our shores and Uncle Kepha wielded power, he would dump all the “independent” Marxists and sexual liberationists forty miles from our shores and make them swim home–and in the dead of winter, too–regardless of how prominent or mediagenic they might be.
Kepha says
Back in the Chinese Civil War, General Bai Chongxi urged that the National government not take in refugees from the Communist zones. He reasoned that it would prevent infiltration and force the Communists to deal with dissent. In hindsight, he was right. Too bad he was a Muslim.
Karen says
“potentially inflammatory content” …… there were two other exhibits that had depictions of hijab-wearing women in chains, and a victim of stoning, but they remained. The Sylvania exhibit displayed the word ‘Sharia’ in some of the content. Did the other two exhibits have some ‘plausible deniability’ in their connection to Islam, while the Sylvania exhibit was unequivocal? That’s they only way this can add up, so that’s a shame.
(Grudging partial credit for allowing the other two exhibits……D-.)
Gary says
I see the progressives in Britain are far worse then the ones here in North America, at least for now.
All I have seen for the last 30 years or so are many different exhibits, just like this one, but attacking or belittling Christianity and yet those are always allowed to go on display under the pretense that it is art.
This should not need to be explained to those that would attack Christianity, but those same people should have to explain why they do not attack Islam, as well and more importantly the media.
abad says
Maybe one of those adorable raccoons will bite the ISL monsters and they die thinking they contracted rabies when they didn’t.
Yes.
I like that idea VERY much.
abad says
Foxes not raccoons. I keep forgetting that raccoons are not indigenous in the UK nor Europe
Myxlplik says
That’s what happens when you get a lot of Muslims. Islamization, and death. Death of freedom.
The awful truth says
I read somewhere that Muslim benefit dependants cost the UK government over £12billion. Will £36k more make such a big difference?
Cowardly Brit says
“When did everyone (and I do mean everyone) decide that cowardice and appeasement were the proper responses to violent Islamic intimidation? When did everyone (Yes , I do mean everyone) decide that the freedom of speech was expendable enough to be sacrificed, and Sharia blasphemy laws worth submitting to, for the sake of a few more moments of peace?”
I live in a small city in the East Midlands (which I am too cowardly to name) which has a large Muslim population of approximately 20%.
It’s not that I think cowardice and appeasement are proper responses, it’s just that besides voting UKIP and trying to educate my immediate family about Islam, I don’t see what else I can usefully do. My 21yr old daughter called me a racist for voting UKIP in front of my husband who didn’t correct her, and my husband and 19 yr old son agree that I am a conspiracy theorist.
I have followed Jihad Watch for years. Robert Spencer’s words here have finally stung me into making my first post, pathetic as it is.
Yes I am cowed, but that doesn’t mean I have decided it’s the proper response, it just means I haven’t worked out yet what my proper response should be.
ECAW says
Good to see your honesty Cowardly Brit. Britain itself seems to have turned into the Cowardly Lion but the first thing we should do is own up to our fear. I think that is a healthier response than the “we will destroy Islam” type bluster we often see here.
I’ve been posting too many of my own blog posts lately and had decided to cut it out but I was touched by your post and offer this in solidarity:
https://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/fear/
Best wishes. You are right and your family are wrong. As to what you can do, how about joining Liberty GB which was formed by Paul Weston when Farage made it clear that he didn’t intend to tackle Islamisation:
Cowardly Brit says
Thank you so much for replying so kindly and for posting the link.
As the weather is turning a bit cold now, I might even find the courage to wear my “Islam Sucks” T-shirt underneath several layers of clothing. But Oh no! What if I get run over by a bus while wearing it? The people at the hospital might refuse to treat me when they discover I am a racist!
Seriously though, I did consider voting Liberty GB last time because I admire so much what Paul Weston has done, and probably every single vote counts so much for them. I opted for UKIP in the end because they seemed to have a much better chance of actually gaining some power.
Needless to say, I don’t know if I did the right thing.
ECAW says
But why not actually join them, or just donate if you don’t want their membership card falling on the hall carpet (they don’t send anything else). They are a force magnifier for those of us willing to wave a flag but not to put a target on our backs.
I would love to be a martyr for a generation which can’t be arsed, you understand, but my wife just won’t let me.
Cowardly Brit says
Please ignore my last paragraph. I think it’s probably complete nonsense because I can’t remember if there was even a liberty GB candidate that I could have voted for.
Cowardly Brit says
You are right. I will donate.
dumbledoresarmy says
You could join “The Royal Society of Saint George”. Total unexceptionable old-fashioned patriotic society, founded in the late 19th century, promotes the best aspects of traditional English culture. They have a ‘fly the flag’ campaign going. Join up, then you can get a Cross of Saint George from them and hang it from the front window or attach it to a pole in the front lawn and if anyone squawks, well, you point them in the direction of the Society and say, “I’m doing it with them, if you don’t like my flying the flag of St George, take it up with Her Majesty” (since the Queen is the Patron of the Society).
If you identify as a Christian, get involved in your local church and see what you can do…the inexpensive but beautifully-produced booklets put out by “Barnabas Fund” are very helpful – I particularly recommend “What is Sharia?” and “Is the Muslim Isa the Biblical Jesus?” – and can be shared with your co-religionists and presented to your parish priest, pastor or minister. Barnabas don’t pull any punches when talking about the ugliness of the sharia.
The other thing you can do is write letters to your elected representative, as occasion arises. And not give up. Just do it, so that at the very least they cannot say they were not warned or that they didn’t know.
Another idea…you could check out (and send a donation to) Gavin Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation. They campaign against mosque-building and have also put together an excellent report on the Muslim ‘grooming’ (rape and pimping) gangs in Rotherham, etc.
The ‘Citizen Warrior’ website has some really good tips on how best to go about waking people up from their hypnotised trance.
Keep an eye out for the “British Pakistani Christian Association’. They have occasionally held rallies and demonstrations to draw attention to the plight of persecuted Christians in Pakistan. If they hold a rally within travelling distance of *your* place, you could go and join them. One small way to stand up and denounce Muslim oppression of non-Muslims. Similarly, if you familiarise yourself with UK Jewish organisations, you will get news of any pro-israel rallies.
You might enjoy checking out the articles at ‘New English Review’ – they have some English contributors.
http://www.newenglishreview.org
Try leaving books strategically lying about. I’d suggest Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “Infidel” and “Nomad”. And Phyllis Chesler, “An American Bride in Kabul”. And Sam Solomon, “Al Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration”.
dumbledoresarmy says
I clicked on the link and read the whole of the original article.
It’s worth it, just for this bit, which sort of sends chills down the spine.
“She [the artist] added that she had made the tableaux between December 2014 and May 2015 and had looked on in horror as, one by one, her imagined scenarios came true.
In one scene, jihadis lurk outside a schoolroom, while a class of girls sit at their desks; in another, gunmen bristle on the horizon as holidaymakers sunbathe on a beach.
“It was creepy, because each time I imagined a scene it happened in reality. I made the beach scene before the Tunisian massacre and the schoolroom scene before Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls in Nigeria,” she said.”