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Govt Official Convicted Over Starting 'Un-Islamic Art' Riots

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Mohamed Ben Slama's naked woman with bearded men standing behind her.
TUNISIA---A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced to two months in jail a court official on charges of inciting a wave of riots by condemning an art exhibit as offensive to Islam, his lawyers told AFP. Bouaziz was arrested in mid-June and accused of triggering riots that engulfed several parts of Tunisia on June 11 and 12, which left one dead and more than 100 wounded, by calling for a protest against an exhibit at a gallery in Tunis. The exhibit included a painting of a naked woman with bearded men standing behind her and a piece spelling the world “Allah” with a file of ants. The vandalism was followed by two days of violence. [link]
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Gregory A. Disney said…
Hmmm. Not sure what I feel. I do think encouraging violence is wrong. Suppose the sentence is too stiff and more of a warning.
Thu Jul 05, 11:39:00 AM EDT
Ernest Disney-Britton said…
Even in America, inciting a riot is against the law, so I hope he gets punished at the full extent of the law, but is then free'd to begin anew.
Sun Jul 08, 05:46:00 AM EDT
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