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Maldives: Marine artwork destroyed after Islamic scholars judge it anti-Islamic

Sep 30, 2018 12:22 pm By Robert Spencer

What fun they’ll have in Paris, Rome, and London.

“Maldives marine artwork destroyed for being a ‘threat to Islamic unity,'” by Antonia Wilson, Guardian, September 24, 2018:

A new sculptural work, Coralarium, created by artist and environmentalist Jason deCaires Taylor, was demolished last week after it was deemed anti-Islamic. The semi-submerged artwork was criticised by religious leaders and scholars in the Maldives, where Islam is the official religion. The depiction of human figures in art is discouraged under Islamic law.

The government ordered the destruction of the artwork, after a court ruled it to be a threat to “Islamic unity and the peace and interests of the Maldivian state”, the Maldives Independent reported, despite the authorities previously granting permission.

The project by DeCaires Taylor, who is known for his underwater sculptures and galleries around the world, was commissioned by the Fairmont Maldives Sirru Fen Fushi resort, owned by the Accor hotel group, as an “intertidal gallery”, and was completed in July. The large steel frame with cutouts aiming to mimic the marine world was intended to allow sea life to explore freely within, acting as a new habitat for coral and other species. Thirty human figures were positioned on top and inside the frame at tidal level, with others submerged beneath. The sculptures were based on life-casts of people, around half of them Maldivian, with some reimagined as hybrid forms including coral or root-like elements.

Nine months in the making, its creation involved a large teamof [sic] marine engineers, steel fabricators, divers and mould-makers. Specialist materials included pH-neutral steel, which is safe for use in a marine environment. Changing according to light and tides, the artwork was open to resort guests and day visitors.

However, on 21 September the work was destroyed under court order with pickaxes, saws and ropes.

“On Friday last week I was extremely shocked and heartbroken to learn that my sculptures have been destroyed by the Maldivian authorities at the Coralarium, despite continued consultations and dialogue,” deCaires Taylor said. “The Coralarium was conceived to connect humans to the environment and a nurturing space for marine life to thrive. Nothing else! The Maldives is still beautiful, with a warm and friendly population, but it was a sad day for art and a sad day for the environment.”

Soon after it was installed, a statement was released by the president’s office, stating that “due to significant public sentiment against the installation”, the ministry of tourism would facilitate the removal of the sculptures. Although the English statement describes the work as “sculptures”, the Maldivian uses the word “budhu”, which means idol, the worship of which is considered a sin in Islam….

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  1. Elee says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    Destroy Islam not art

    • laura ann says

      Sep 30, 2018 at 1:37 pm

      When most of Europe is soon taken down (incl. their useful idiot leaders) and Muslim leaders take full control,setting up a caliphate, the European people and their globalist puppet leaders no longer useful, will be eliminated to make more room for the masses of Muslims pouring in from the middle east and Africa. European culture will then be destroyed, churches, museums, etc will be razed. Europeans apparently want Muslim rule since they are doing nothing to stop it.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Sep 30, 2018 at 9:09 pm

        Europeans do not ‘want Muslim rule’, but while they are subject to EU rule, they don’t have a lot of choice. Nevertheless, they are making their opposition to the invasion felt, through the ballot box, and through regular and growing public protest. The tide is turning.

        • laura ann says

          Oct 1, 2018 at 9:32 am

          I just don’t see it happening at all ref to: (voiceofeurope.com), preteen girls are raped, two recently in Spain gang raped. Rapes in Sweden ongoing, fires and torching cars. Police do little about Muslim crimes. An elderly woman was arrested in Sweden for complaining to police about her being mugged by a middle eastern man. Euro folks are accused of racism on every turn. I really do not see any opposition at this point. Nihilism and apathy rules the masses. Ballot boxes are a joke over there as the pro Muslim leaders have everything rigged for the take down. If you are over there now, I would relocate to an E. European country who doesn’t tolerate ongoing open borders.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Oct 2, 2018 at 6:41 am

          ‘…I really do not see any opposition at this point…’

          Did you miss the Italian election? Did you miss the gains made by the good guys in the recent Swedish election? Did you miss the reports of Merkel’s diminishing support? Did you miss the growth of protest groups like PEGIDA, Generation Identitaire, and 120db? Did you miss the increasing global support for Tommy Robinson? Did you miss the emergence of leaders like Anne Marie Waters and Gerard Batten? I know that the situation is dire, but there are nevertheless some very positive signs. We must not give up.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 3, 2018 at 11:14 pm

          There have been some good signs.

      • vlad says

        Oct 1, 2018 at 4:40 am

        It’s time to abolish this g a n g s t e r organisation.

        https://www.un.org/pga/72/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2018/07/180713_Agreed-Outcome_Global-Compact-for-Migration.pdf

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Oct 1, 2018 at 5:08 am

          +1

    • J D S says

      Oct 1, 2018 at 8:15 pm

      More stupidness in Islam….it gets stupider by the day.

  2. infidel says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    Vow!! What else to say here!! I’ve run out of words… Islam and Muslims regularly make me do that…

  3. Istanbul_Chick says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 12:39 pm

    Oh, but hasn’t jug-eared Chuck assured the masses that islam is environmentally friendly?

    • Axolotl says

      Sep 30, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      “Unity through diversity..” That’s as far as i got!
      I know we’re all on the same planet but I do sometimes wonder if the likes of HRH are in a different dimension.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Sep 30, 2018 at 9:17 pm

        HRH is a bumbling fool, a character out of P.G. Wodehouse, but without the comic value.

    • vlad says

      Oct 1, 2018 at 4:45 am

      And he also cuts a dashing figure whilst performing the S a u d i s w o r d dance

    • Spike1047 says

      Oct 1, 2018 at 1:32 pm

      Just think – this idiot will be King one day. Heaven help us.

    • Leon Degney says

      Oct 2, 2018 at 6:24 am

      I have said for many years that Charlie Boy is another dangerous inbred that is hellbent on the destruction of the UK and indeed the whole of Europe.

  4. infidel says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    Where are LEFT LIBBIES and their Human rights cronies and other activists??? SILENT AS USUAL when Islam is the accused… Just remember as to how many countless temples were destroyed in India by Islam…

  5. Steven RSA says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    Never visit the Maldives. Make the country rely on the Surah of Wealth to generate income.

  6. Gjallarhornet says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Q: Who destroys anything cool? A: Yup, you guessed it – an islamic state.

  7. Barbara Vandewalle says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    It looks like trees? How can that be unmusliem. OH that’s right! Art of any kind is to be destroyed. So everything at the Louvre, every art gallery, muesum is to be destroyed. No more Brahms, Mozart, Beetles, etc. will be allowed.

    • bev says

      Sep 30, 2018 at 9:12 pm

      No art, no singing, no movies, no plays, no dancing.

      • laura ann says

        Oct 1, 2018 at 9:39 am

        Bev: soon to be likewise in most of Europe. Enslavement or execution will be the rule for the masses of infidels because they stood by and allowed their countries to be taken over.

    • MTMLA says

      Oct 1, 2018 at 9:40 am

      Music,musical instruments, art, are all HARAM in Islam. Chopping heads off, raping little girls, beating up women, lying ,teaching hate to non believers is HALAL in Islam…A country which allows Islam within its borders, is going to have a sad surprise … Ask the Copts in Egypt…among many.

      • Leon Degney says

        Oct 2, 2018 at 6:51 am

        Lebanon as well. Not good wherever they go.

  8. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    When this happened to the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, the culprits, the Taliban, were called “extremist”.

  9. Niemoller says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    He was “extremely shocked” because he’s a fool with his head up his rear.

    This is nothing new for even the Maldives. It should be expected. The ancient Buddhas museum in the Maldives was smashed in 2012:

    http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamists-destroy-some-30-Buddhist-statues-23986.html

  10. Arthur says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 4:47 pm

    Multiculturalism: when will artists recognize that other cultures are not replicas of western civilization with a different color palette?

  11. FYI says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    It was a beautiful work of art!

    Delightful.

    It was obviously lost on the followers of allah the “best of deceivers”.

    allah:A god who we know hates art,musical instruments,literature,Jews,the song of a songstress,comedy,Jews,science,the commandments,Love,free expression,Jews,chess,languages other than 7th century Arabic ,Theology,Jews,Reason & logic,bacon,pigs,CARTOONS of his “prophet” mo the perfect,Jews…

    • Lilith Wept says

      Oct 1, 2018 at 12:22 am

      No Allah is Mohammed’s sock puppet . Mohammed used the threat of being punished by a deity to get what he, Mohammed wanted. Even his child wife A’yshia recognized that , “Your lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes” and you notice she said “ your lord” not “Allah” or “ the lord, or my lord” so she is insinuating that Allah is Mohammed’s creation , and the Mohammed is using Allah as a threat…….
      Mohammad also used Allah as a reward , that Allah would reward people who did what Mohammed wanted.
      So it’s not Allah that hates all those things, it was Mohammed. ….If you want to understand the Koran better, read this biography of Mohammed…” It’s All About Mohammad” by FW Burleigh. It uses the Islamic sources and has an excellent bibliography if you want to see the original source. It’s an easy read, it stuffy …..and it’s the least iased of all the biographies of Mohammed I have read…..If you are familiar with the events of Mohammed’s life then you will be able to understand the references in the Koran to some event in his life……I reccoment this book highly of you want to know just want kind of a horrible person Mohammad was…..and you will get an idea WHY Mohammad has Allah forbid or dislike all those things……..

  12. Axolotl says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    They won’t. It’s outside their beautiful ‘one-world’ fantasies. Same as the luvvies…

  13. Axolotl says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    If you fancy a holiday the Maldives, do it soon. You may not be able to (or want to) in a very few years.
    Personally, I wouldn’t spend my hard-earned in an Islamic country…

  14. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    ==QUOTE== The government ordered the destruction of the artwork, after a court ruled it to be a threat to “Islamic unity and the peace and interests of the Maldivian state” ==UNQUOTE==

    How can this artwork — or anything — be a threat to Islamic unity? This court ruling, which asserts that some Muslims are are okay with depicting the human form, and is an insult to the ummah.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Sep 30, 2018 at 7:21 pm

      Correction:
      How can this artwork — or anything — be a threat to Islamic unity? This court ruling, which asserts that some Muslims are okay with depicting the human form, is an insult to the ummah.

  15. Indiana Tom says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    I just hope the tourists and their spending money go elsewhere.

  16. Indiana Tom says

    Sep 30, 2018 at 8:40 pm

    The Maldives is still beautiful, with a warm and friendly population, but it was a sad day for art and a sad day for the environment.”
    Might want to look into the Gold Coast of Michigan.
    Weather can be tricky. so plan ahead.

  17. J.W.K. says

    Oct 1, 2018 at 3:20 am

    Brought to you by the “Religion of Peace.”

  18. gravenimage says

    Oct 3, 2018 at 11:19 pm

    Maldives: Marine artwork destroyed after Islamic scholars judge it anti-Islamic
    ………………

    Just a few years ago Muslims in the Maldives rampaged through the museum there, destroying most of the nation’s Buddhist artistic heritage:

    “It begins: Muslims in Maldives smash Buddhist statues in National Museum”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/it-begins-muslims-in-maldives-smash-buddhist-statues-in-national-museum

    God, I hate Islam.

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