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Sculpture By Cosimo Cavallaro To Debut At Gallery In NYC

[iceman_1960]

When "The Satanic Verses" first hit the press, the Muslims got help from an unexpected source: Patrick Buchanan.

He denounced the work as "literary vandalism" and suggested that Rushdie go to Nicauragua "and hide out with his pal Daniel Ortega."

Apparently there was some odd connection between Rushdie and Ortega in the past.

[diplomacy3]

dsutton13

I don't believe in fantasy. I have not seen the prophet muhammad how he looked like. No matter what you write or sketch that's someone's own wisdom. I won't mind. And won't waste my time.

[iceman_1960]

"Rushdie would have gone bankrupt had he not got that money thru his best seller. He even did know what he wrote about the prophet. He just wanted that money to get married another young lady which he did. Authors are human beings too??"
Posted by diplomacy3

Like they say, in the entertainment business there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Mel Gibson is another example of that. He's raking in more cash than ever.

[diplomacy3]

Rushdie would have gone bankrupt had he not got that money thru his best seller. He even did know what he wrote about the prophet. He just wanted that money to get married another young lady which he did. Authors are human beings too??

[dsutton13]

Actually...if this was an image of Muhammed, there would not be fighting on the board...but in the streets all over the world. FACT. Christians are fair game, but strangely, they do no riot in the streets, burn the flag of the United States, become violent, strap bombs to their bodies, and call for the over throw of democratic governments so the Bible can be instituted as the law of the land. But if the protest at all about this horrible insult or any other insults that are heaped upon them in the name of freedom of speech...it's as if they don't have any rights at all. Just keep you mouth shut...while we insult and heap scorn on your religions most sacred figure. Hmmmmmmm. Sounds kind of strange to me. Religous bigotry is bigotry...a bigot is a bigot is a bigot. Do I believe that Muhammed is a prophet of God...NO, but civilized people do not purposely go out of their way to insult others, so they can live out their right to freedom of speech and expression. Sad, very sad.

[iceman_1960]

Actually it's been 19 years since Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses," not 26.

Still a long time to go with a billion people wanting you dead.

Most Muslims don't want Rushdie dead, of course.

Muslim newspapers around the world editorialized at the time that Rushdie should simply be ignored. Said one, "A great Prophet has been slandered by a third rate author. Wherein has the Prophet been injured ?"

[gunownerdan]

Each day prepare your bread as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread. For this is what the LORD says: "Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands, where I will banish them!" Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid." "All right," the LORD said. "You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung."
- Ezekiel 4:12-15

[shingles1]

Controversy is the best thing that can happen to a metiocre artist.

Thanks to Donohue this guy's stuff is now worth more $ than it would be otherwise.

[diplomacy3]

Iceman_1960

Rushdie fooled the whole muslim world by publishing the "Satanic Verses". He knew the nerves of the muslims exactly like we are fighting on this board. He rightly thought his book would be the Best Seller and that's how he robbed the muslims to become a millionaire.

[diverinnl]

It's all just shock factor without any read substance behind it.

Should have been:

It's all just shock factor without any REAL substance behind it. He's a fraud.

Sorry for the typo!

[imaok1]

I'm APPALLED that he made this statue out of milk chocolate. Doesn't he know dark chocolate is healthier???

[diverinnl]

Cosimo Cavallaro is not an artist. Some of his works include putting a blowup doll in a coffin, a picture of goldfish in a toilet, and a picture of a dead mouse in a mouse trap. He is just some tool on the SP "A" list who claims to have some sort of "enlightened" political view. It's all just shock factor without any read substance behind it. He's a fraud.

[iceman_1960]

"I dare the "artist" to create an image of Mohamed, like the one of Jesus, and then let's see how long he will live to tell about it."
Posted by nikosk1

Salman Rushdie is still around, 26 years after publishing "The Satanic Verses" -- still available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble ("usually ships within 24 hours".)

Some fatwa that was.

[iceman_1960]

"...don't forget that little teenage girl who claimed she had a viginal pregnancy..."

Virginal pregnancy.

(Amusing typo.)

[iceman_1960]

John 14:28: "...If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

There are other similar scriptures; this one for instance:

John 5:19
"Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."

So unless he does only what he sees himself doing in the mirror, Jesus is the Son of the Father, not the Father Himself. He does what he sees his Father doing.

"I and the Father are One" is a figure of speech.

[ecuadoriana]

"...Take for example Jesus' words in John 10:30..." Posted by singinrick at 12:07 PM : Mar 30, 2007

That's some crazy s**t! I had no idea that tape recorders had been invented so far back! How come I've never been able to hear an actual recording of jesus & all them other dudes, & don't forget that little teenage girl who claimed she had a viginal pregnancy (oh puleeeze! If your teenage daughter announced she was pregnant but was still a virgin you'd first hit the roof, then under the "spare the rod..." commandment you'd probably knock her silly).

He said/she said & let's all play the telephone game!

2000 years of the telephone game & people are still getting a wrong number. No wonder them nigerian spammers & discount viagra sales do so well.


Baaaa baaaa baaa little sheep.

[me4prezz]

dare the "artist" to create an image of Mohamed, like the one of Jesus, and then let's see how long he will live to tell about it.
Posted by nikosk1 at 12:25 PM : Mar 30, 2007

AMEN! At what point did being a Christian become a crime? For the record, it is not, and I repeat NOT, ALL Christians who force religions on others, who DO NOT murder others in the name of Christ, and who DO NOT claim to be above all others. Those who term themselves "Christian" and then demean, abuse, beat, maim, tease, or push a faith on others that is not wanted is not a Christian. That is where people get the faith confused and misinterpreted. There are millions of good, honest, hard-working and strong Christians out there. But do not confuse a Christian defending their religion with that of a Christian forcing their religion. It wasn't Christians who flew planes into buildings.

And for the record, RandelDS, Christians do pray for the civilians that are murdered everyday. No true Christian wants people murdered or hurt. It is the radical islamics and those who would murder or kill in the name of a God that offends and that forces us to pray for their anguish and hatred to end, but a Christian never prays for their demise. Those who say otherwise have no right to the term Christian.

[iceman_1960]

"Iceman_1960, you say Jesus never claimed to be God, but you didn't read this part of the scripture:

John 10:29-30:
29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE." Posted by singinrick
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Jesus also said that a husband and wife are "one flesh" - but that doesn't mean they're the same person.

Or was Jesus claiming to be greater than himself ?

John 14:28: "...If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."

Was he saying that he was going to himself, and that he was greater than himself ?

[hrdstonewall]

Big Deal, THAT is NOT Jesus. Jesus is alive and well, his tomb is empty and the cross he was nailed to did rot over the years until it desintegrated. This is just one more religious stunt to turn heads, raise eyebrows and be on the news. I think it's more of a blasphemy to spray dozens of pounds of food as room decor when people even in America are starving. This is just a chocolate sculpure depicting someone showing his privates, just like Michelangelo's David, only in a crude, ugly, gross and completely inappropiate version. If ANYONE wants to refer a piece of chocolate as Lord, let them do so, God has said NOT TO, but what does he know? He is just the creator of all. Catholics and pagans rever other idols anyway, so this is NO difference.

[diplomacy3]

What good have our religions given us. Just imagine right now we hate each others because one suspects the other being a Muslim or Jews or whatever. I am sure Hitler would never have killed millions of Jews if there were no religions and we would never have witnessed massacre elsewhere in the world if this world was a religion-free. Where's humanity??? Come on Where is COMMON INTELLIGENCE!!!