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1 " ...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: " When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." " If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." " Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." " You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them. "
2 " Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quaran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience of their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that " Islam is peace and tolerance. "
