1. Islam is not a race, and Muslims are not all of one race. There are Muslims, as well as jihadis, of all races.
2. Opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others is not “racism” or “xenophobia.”
3. Printing slogans on signs in pseudo-Arabic and pseudo-Urdu is not art.
4. Faisal Hussain is not oppressed or marginalized. He is a privileged member of Britain’s new elite. He has an art show featured at a gallery. Would the same gallery feature an exhibition of slogans about opposing jihad terrorism and the oppression of women justified by Sharia? Not on your life.
“Art show takes on global Islamophobia,” by Lauren Codling, Eastern Eye, April 28, 2021:
AN ART exhibition exploring the “victimisation” of Muslims in the UK and abroad is a response to the rise in racism against the community, its creator has said.
Faisal Hussain’s Suspect Objects Suspect Subjects (SOSS) analyses the impact of government policy and monitoring of the Muslim community, the multi-faceted channels used to influence bias and its subsequent effect on individuals.
Although currently available to view virtually, it will be open to view from May 18 at SOAS’s Brunei Gallery in central London (dependent on government guidance).
In an interview with Eastern Eye, Hussain said SOSS was his response to the global rise in racism against Muslims. The manner in which Muslims were represented in the media, as well as the online abuse and racist attacks the group endures were additional contributing factors.
“It was affecting who I was, so I felt the need to respond,” the 43-year- old artist explained. “I began adopting a more analytical approach to what different media were reporting and what actions the UK government was taking in different ways in Birmingham through failed surveillance and educational interventions.”
Hussain is known for using everyday items to get his point across – whether it is a kebab shop sign inscribed with the words “Go Back to Where You Hate From”, or the “positive facade but harmful core” of cupcakes to symbolise the government’s Prevent scheme.
The Birmingham-based artist is known for incorporating humour into his work too, using it as a mechanism to question perceptions on identity and race. For instance, an installation of toy guns titled Muslamic Rayguns is a reference to the viral video of an English Defence League (EDL) march from 2011. An individual partaking in the EDL event was mocked for his incoherent views on his reasons for joining the protest….
Wellington says
Muslims posing as victims is akin to Neo-Nazis or BLM adherents or Antifa members or KKK members posing as victims. And lying why Muslims are victims, in this case due to race, is standard fare for the mendacious element of mankind, which Islam is steeped in.
One of many features of totalitarian/authoritarian/supremacist thought is that it engages in massive projection, i.e., what it accuses others of, which ordinarily the “others” do not engage in at all in the first place, it itself engages in enormously so.
This is the overall malarkey going on here. And where Islam is concerned, it is steeped in malarkey, actually drowning in it, and why I fervently wish that influential, albeit stupid, Westerners, i.e., dhimmi apologists for Mo’s creed, like so many of the current heads of state in the West, would wake the Hell up.
But they’re not going to. And so an entire new leadership in the West is needed. Trump pointed the way to this new kind of Western leadership, but he spoke the truth, an unforgiveable sin in our silly era, and that is why he had to be destroyed, even before he took office in January of 2017.
The nonsense continues. You bet it does. Islam sucks and so do all those, Muslim or non-Muslim, who aver otherwise.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Trump pointed the way to this new kind of Western leadership, but he spoke the truth, an unforgiveable sin in our silly era, and that is why he had to be destroyed, even before he took office in January of 2017.”
100% true,
And Pres. Trump tried to rightfully fix things that were “not supposed to be fixed”…
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington: Muslims merely pose as victims.
Muslims follow the ultimate VICTIMIZER … Mohammed. Islam means ‘submission’, not ‘peace’ Islam literally means ‘pacification’. Islam ‘pacifies’ non-Muslims by first slaughtering them en masse, then killing most of their leaders and demanding tribute from everyone else.
Muslims still practice Mohammed’s model today. Islam is a global dictatorship and so are the Corporatist-Globalist oligarchs who are trying to rule the world with computer surveillance of everyone.
william says
Wellington:
If the Muslims behaved according to their claims IE. that Islam is a peaceful religion, like the Buddhists and Hindus There would be know need for the UK govt or any govt. to pay them special attention. The behaviour of many Muslims though not all, tells us otherwise.
Muslims at murdering or attempting to murder non Muslims all over the world. Accodring to Al Jazeera polling, 60% of them supported ISIS
william says
Typo. no not know
gravenimage says
This is true, william.
“Al Jazeera poll shows alarming levels of support for ISIS”
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/al-jazeera-poll-shows-alarming-levels-support-isis
This is particularly disturbing, since some Muslims oppose ISIS not because they are disgusted by their views and actions, but just because they consider them a rival group.
Islam is *not* a religion of peace. Amazing that so many clueless dhimmis have bought this.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that I would prefer art work such as powerful cartoons of that vile creature Muhammad, who deserves to be attacked ferociously by civilised societies, to the boring drivel that this whingeing, whining Muslim artist would produce. I thought islam was down on visual arts, music, etc, so maybe this artist might be upsetting some of the purer Muslim mob by being an artist. This guy is, no doubt, just another whining Muslim “victim”. Aren’t all these Muslims victims until they get the power and then they always treat all non-Muslims appallingly, so Muslims are the biggest bunch of hypocrites in the world. And Islam is not a race, so attacking Islam, that barbaric load of crap, has nothing to with racism. No doubt plenty of people will buy this clown’s bullshit though. More cartoons of the despicable murderer and pedophile, Muhammad, that’s what I’d prefer to see, rather than this whinger’s art work.
Boycott Turkey says
Good point I thought pictures where Haram in Islam just like music is
gravenimage says
This is true, Boycott Turkey.
But just as with Gangsta Rap there is generally an out if this furthers the cause of Islam–as it does with Faisal Hussain’s work.
Besides, I have never seen him do figurative art–it is mostly just propagandistic text. If this wasn’t so politicized, he’s just be considered an entry-level graphic artist.
gravenimage says
It’s claptrap like this that makes me embarrassed to say I’m an artist…
Here’s Faisal Hussain’s “Artist Statement”:
http://www.faisalhussain.com/Artist-Statement
His “art” includes a sign outside a kebab shop in fake Arabic lettering saying “Stop Colonizing our Future” and a gun with the slogan “Muslamic” on the barrel.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, Boycott Turkey and gravenimage. Being an artist is a good calling to have, gravenimage. I guess this Muslim is more like a propagandist for Islam rather than a true artist. He is probably more like those crappy artists who used to do art works that supported the old USSR or something similar. I read a fair bit about modern art years ago, trying to understand it, and used to do a bit of painting and drawing myself, all years ago, and what struck me was the huge variety in the art works people produced. You had the abstract artists, (Pollock, Rothko, Newman, etc) but then you had people producing those photo-realist paintings, like Chuck Close, around the same time etc. I suppose it is no surprise to have such massive variety. I used to like some of the works of Paul Klee, Joan Miro and a few others. It was a long, long time ago when I realised that I had only a tiny little bit of talent for the visual arts. I definitely didn’t have the gift. I haven’t bothered much with what artists are doing in recent times. I think that it is definitely very hard for people to decide what is good, significant art and what is not in modern times. It is a mystery for most people. This Muslim whiner is not someone I’d bother with for a second.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Tim.
Yes, a lot of “art” these days has nothing to do with artistic talent at all–and actual skill and beauty are often sneered at. Most of it is “performance art” of one kind or another, and is mostly leftist propaganda. Very disheartening.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Do you have a “guesstimate” on what percentage of professional artists are Leftists?
gravenimage says
James, from my view here I would say almost all of them.
I know cartoonist Bosch Fawstin through Jihad Watch, and I have a friend who voted for Trump whose husband is an art professor–and that’s about it.
The real question tends to be not if artists are Leftists, but just how far left they are. Even Bill-Clinton-in-the-’90s type liberals are fairly rare–the rest range from considering Dianne Feinstein far too conservative to completely unhinged Anarchists.
It’s pretty much like Hollywood–I imagine that there *are* a few conservatives out there, but they keep a low profile. I don’t hide my views, but I also don’t generally broadcast them, because there’d be no point.
Again, very disheartening.
And when I was at university artists were among the most far left of any group–and at Berkeley, that was saying a lot. I was a pretty standard liberal myself at the time, and was still considered too conservative.
And of course before that many artists were members of the Communist Party–so this goes way back.
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for your reply, gravenimage.
Infidel says
Graven, Rush Limbaugh once said in an interview (w/ reference to Andre Seranno and his ‘piss Christ’ exhibit): “I have a simple definition of art: if I can do it, it ain’t art!” That’s the case here w/ Faisal Hussein: anybody else could have put this together: one didn’t have to be him to do it
gravenimage says
Thanks, James and Infidel.
And Infidel, it seems that “artists” have become increasingly unskilled–most of this stuff now is not art in any recognizable sense at all.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, gravenimage, James and Infidel. As you mentioned, gravenimage, most artists do tend to lean to the left. I recall that Picasso, great artist no doubt, was a Communist. I suspect, as you say, that, like people in the acting and music industries, a lot of people who aren’t left wingers would be a bit scared to go against the flow. It might harm your career and friends might be hard to find. On the photo-realist painters I mentioned, I was relying on my memory. Chuck Close’s name must have stuck in my mind, but I was actually thinking of the paintings of Richard Estes, you know, those unbelievably detailed painting of phone booths, etc, that he did. I thought, imagine the hard work getting everything so precisely right in those paintings, but I also thought, why do it? Maybe just take a photo. They are amazing paintings for the hard work involved and the extraordinary detail. Infidel, That’s a good line from Limbaugh. I think it is all a mystery to most people these days. I guess if you come across something you like, then that’s it for you.
gravenimage says
+1
Crusades Were Right says
“Al taqiyya for a ride, kafirs!”
Boycott Turkey says
Maybe somebody should have a art exhibition of Christians being persecuted in Pakistan Egypt Africa and Armenia and of How Turkey stole Agia Sophia and committed genocide against Armenians Greeks and Assyrians
gravenimage says
UK: Art show highlights ‘racism’ against Muslims due to ‘Islamophobia’
…………………
All these points made by Robert Spencer are accurate.
W. Kamau Bell in his latest episode features a “Palestinian” Muslim excorriating the US for daring to defend against JIhad. Ugly suff, but very common from the left right now.
Mike says
until Islam started to preach the Koran and Kill all non believers was only brought on by the irrigates of the people out to conquer the world.
Islam did this to there selves and only they can fix it by asking for forgiven
PRCS says
‘ole Joe and his handlers have redefined infrastructure to include issues like child care, caregiving, and paid leave as infrastructure and so many of our friends and neighbors have bought into that rot.
Ditto the carefully crafted Islamophobia propaganda and the nonsensical idea that it’s racist to criticize Allah’s slaves.
Infidel says
Anti jihadists should counter w/ similar fake art: have anti-islam and anti-jihad slogans designed in the Nastaliq script (the base script of Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and other muslim spoken languages), rendered in appropriate calligraphic fonts, and then either displayed as paintings or carved on cutlery and other things, and then offered to such museums. Chances are that a good number of the Faisal Husseins are not native Urdu speakers and don’t know what it says. And when muslims who do know Urdu or Arabic see this and react in customary rage and try to or actually vandalize these, then pop the popcorn while they are condemned for islamophobia ?
Asura says
Just use the quotes of Al Razi so-called greatest Islamic scholar. Who severely criticized Islam.
gravenimage says
Asura, Al Razi was mostly known as a physician, not a religious scholar. As for his views on Islam, these a bit uncertain, since most information on him comes from his enemies, who had a stake in making him sound more ‘heretical’ than he may have been. He did seem to be a free thinker, though–at least by the standards of the time.
This probably would not have been allowed if he didn’t have a high status in another field, and thus protection from high up.
truth seeking says
— On the topic of privileged Muslim snowflakes complaining about “oppression” in the West, has anyone here seen the film “Reluctant Fundamentalist?” It was on one of the HBO channels last night. Produced by some film company with Doha in its name. And what a gigantic, entitled, supremacist piece of hypocrisy it is!
— The film is about a Pakistani whose family moves to the USA when he is still a child. He is able to attend an Ivy League college on scholarship provided to him by the generous West. He is able to get a much coveted job at a premiere private equity firm. On top of that, he’s mentored by one of the partners, favored over his peers, and is promised a partnership at an extraordinarily young age. And, of course, he has Kate Hudson for a compliant white girlfriend. Privilege on top of privilege on top of outrageous privilege. But then “somebody does something” on September 11. And he thinks he hears some work colleagues commenting that he looks like a terrorist. Later, when a crazed turbaned man threatens to kill passers-by on the street in front of his office, the police arrive after the crazed man has fled, and they question him instead. Poor baby. So he goes back to Pakistan, becomes a professor and teaches radicals that the USA is an evil place.
— The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven!! Pakistan is literally the worst country on the planet for oppression of its religious minorities. Even the corrupt UN admits this is so. See the Asia Bibi case, for instance. Pakistan’s prejudice, discrimination, intolerance and violence against religious minorities dwarfs anything that can be found in the West. Has an Infidel immigrant to Pakistan ever been treated so kindly as this movie’s protagonist was treated in the USA? Does Pakistan even accept Infidel immigrants? Or, like Saudi Arabia, does it allow only Muslim migrants? Has an Infidel ever arrived penniless in Pakistan, penniless and without powerful connections, and still been given scholarships to Pakistan’s finest universities, and been able to rise to the top of one of Pakistan’s most powerful financial institutions? Has an Infidel ever arrived penniless in Pakistan and dated a beautiful Muslim Pakistani girl without getting himself and her beaten and/or honor killed? No? And yet this spoiled, arrogant Islamo-supremacist snowflake complains about the USA.
— Who are the deplorables? Who are the intolerant? Who are the misogynists? Who are the supremacists?
— Most important of all, who are the liars?
gravenimage says
All good points about that disgusting film, truth seeking.
Right now, anyone even slightly right-of-center is falsely excoriated as a dangerous white supremacist (even thouse who are not white). But how many Conservatives feel inclined to ergo commit acts of violence? Few to none.
This is just claptrap. Genuinely peaceful people suspected of violence don’t feel inclined to become violent as a result.
Andrew Blackadder says
I guess this wee ” artist” muslim soy boy is too young to remember that once upon a time Europe was a really lovely place to be until muslims arrive in droves, and started demanding that we take care of them, because they cant take care of themselves,even in their own countries, and if we dont take care of them, unlike the mega rich Middle Eastern Kingdoms, then we are really really bad racist evil people, meanwhile hordes of these savages pour into Europe every day from islamic Nations around the World and still they call us the bad guys even after they get a four star hotel room with their special food served to them for FREE, plus health care and more.
musims around the World are laughing their heads off at our level of tolerance as they see that as our weakness,while we may see it as our strength.
gravenimage says
I imagine a Muslim like Faisal Hussain is happy with these dire changes in Britain and wants to see more of them.
IanB says
Fake art – or, in short, F-Art.
nameless coward says
(yawn) Piss Christ by American artist Andres Serrano (yawn)
Muslamic Rayguns (yawn)
Muslims are upset (yawn yawn yawn)
Fred van de Bunt says
“The global rise in racism against Muslims…”I read, Hussain in his Brunei art gallery “had to respond to…”.
That Brunei art gallery is by accident not sponsored by that Sultan of Brunei that introduced Sharia caning laws in 2014 for Muslims only and in 2019 also for infidels and other scum in that oil well Sultanate he rules with absolute power?
The stench of English elites collaborating with those types that discriminate other with their “holy” sharia laws is palpable. So soon we can expect in London more of those art galleries, by very upset Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS members, all suffering deeply from racism…
That begs the question: “Why did nobody stop those racist allied forces during WO-II that did discriminate those poor Nazi’s in such a terrible way?” Can any Leftist teacher explain that?
gravenimage says
Fred, thanks for that background–*very* telling.
“The Centre for Islamic Art (including the Brunei Gallery) was made possible by a benefaction from the Sultan of Brunei…”
https://www.nicholashare.co.uk/projects/view/brunei-gallery-soas
Here’s one of their current exhibits–all work by Faisal Hussain:
“Suspect Objects Suspect Subjects is a collection of works which questions, highlights and responds to the victimising of Muslim communities in the UK and around the world.The exhibition addresses themes of government policy and monitoring, controlled identities and the cause and effect on individuals and subsequent impact on mental health. The artworks reflect on this fear and racism as contemporary social factors, political currency, and cultural memes. They target and immerse the viewer to echo the persistent attacks that surround Muslim communities, playing on the navigation of our reality and memory. The use of advertising, installation, painting, sculpture, still and moving images explores the multi-faceted channels used to influence and fuel prejudice. Juxtapositions question the surreal ‘validity’ of suspicion and evoke humour, personal memory and the experiences of duality and difference.”
One piece is a fake email from a racist, one sneeringly says “we must not be extreme”, another “go back to where you hate from” (a reference to “go back where you came from”, obviously), there is a piece making fun of the idea of “lone wolf” terrorists, there is an aluminum ‘crusader helmet’ and drones that look like crosses, a fake suicide vest, and a reference to “clockboy’s” clock–it goes on in this vein.
Note that there are only a couple of pieces that have any element of art to them at all–even bad art. Mostly these are just concepts–and ham-fisted concepts at that.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/suspect-objects/
But this is very much the kind of thing that so often passes for art these days.
OLD GUY says
Racism is the new buzz word of the left. Everything and every speech has to have the word RACISM in it to be current speak. Yes there are racist in the world and in every country and there always will be. Another buzz word is Slavery, in particular American slavery. Yes there was slavery in the U.S.A. but let”s remember that the British empire relied on slaves through out the Caribbean and South America on their sugar plantations and mining operations. Great Britain, Spain and France basically ruled the world in the 1600 and 1700 hundreds and ran the Slave trade. Many of the plantations in the American colonies were owned and operated by their citizens. So why is the U.S.A. always the main country identified with slavery? I find that confusing as Thousands of American men and women fought a civil war that ended up freeing slaves and making them citizens.
gravenimage says
And even more than this is the fact that slavery in Africa was all based on Muslim slavers–and that Islam is the *only* faction that has not ended slavery to this day. Yet this is seldom mentioned or acknowledged.
BlackSabbath says
The body language of folded hands by moslem says he does not want to work. The sign says “we are here,” meaning we are tax payers problem and deal with us. We will not contribute to your economy because our “hands are tied” as mohammadeans. Besides, we do not have any skills other than raping, looting and beheading.