And there's this, from another friend of the artist: "It was as if he had some disease... If you touched him, you got it as well — became a persona non grata or a pariah."
October 10, 2021
"The couple had planned to live together in her home but Swedish police insisted it could not be made secure."
"They wanted her to live in his tiny flat, in effect a 'closet' where he kept all the paintings no one would exhibit, [said a friend of the artist, a retired judge who] had been trying to broker an agreement between the couple and police. Now it is too late. [The artist's girlfriend] suspects excessive speed — it was normal for the police car to travel at 100mph on the motorway — may have killed her partner: she had often been 'quite scared' in the days when she was allowed in the car. 'I would grab Lars’s arm,' she said. But she never complained.
'I’m sad our last year was spent like birds in a cage, I alone here, he at his place,' she added, tears in her eyes. 'I miss him terribly.'"
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Liberals are trash people. If he had conservative friends, i am sure they stood by him.
I'm sensing a theme today ...
Maybe he should have gotten in touch with Kathleen Stock, the U Sussex professor ...
Is there such a thing as Cancelled Anonymous or Pariahs United?
Serious Question
HOW can you call yourself, a "Swedish Liberal", if you
a) support Islam
b) are opposed to free speech
c) don't mind people's lives being threatened, for Any Reason?
The ostensibly enlightened west's leadership and elite class' reaction to Charlie Hebdo etc. was the beginning of where we find ourselves today with all the speech policing and cancel culture.
Anyone who didn't see this coming from that, and see through the soothing bromides of the moronic "It can't happen here!" class, should probably be ignored going forward on account of historical illiteracy.
Yeah, Islam has added so much value to the West. Aren’t we glad we let them in?
"cut adrift by Swedish liberals"
Paragons of tolerance and free expression, not to mention courage in defending the open society.
But seriously, what is liberal about "liberals" these days?
This is Islam. Not radical Islamism, not terrorist Islamism.
It's Islam. A cancer in any society, for centuries.
Read _A Bride in Kabul_. By well-known, second-wave feminist Phyllis Chesler, who was a naive young Jewish intellectual cosmopolitan when she ended up marrying a wealthy lie-by hanging out in an American University and found herself trapped in the women's quarters in a warlord's territory in Kabul.
By the way. My computer will no longer let me even look up her wikipedia page.
How odd that this and the previous story seem so related.
Islam ought to be treated as a global threat.
It is no better than Nazism or Soviet Communism.
Does anyone know what Mohamed looked like - were there contemporaneous pictures or detailed descriptions?
Ditto when people say they see the Virgin Mary in a tortilla, etc. Who knows what she looked like?
Saying that artists who started painting biblical figures centuries later got the likenesses right via divine inspiration would be a little too convenient, no?
Rectitude and courage always eventually become inconvenient and tiresome for those without them.
Normally we would soon see him as the courageous protagonist of a big screen movie. But these days, his "Islamophobia" is more likely to make him the antagonist of that film, with his death a fitting comeuppance.
What Yeats said happens when the center doesn't hold is where we are.
He had friends. Mark Steyn wrote a wonderful tribute to him last week. But, then, Steyn is in the same boat. Nearly everyone who has said the things he has said has been attacked in some way -- killed outright, firebombed, gone after with a machete . . .
We live in an era of little honor or courage.
Lucien,
Does anyone know what Mohamed looked like - were there contemporaneous pictures or detailed descriptions?
I don't think so, especially because most branches of Islam forbid portraiture of any kind.
However, your question reminds me of another. In a TX station's account of how teachers were grappling with CRT and intersectionality and colonialism/imperialism/"settler ideology" and so forth, a teacher relates showing his students a famous portrait of Thomas Jefferson. All his students recognized it (he says; I'm already suspicious this early in the anecdote, b/c I doubt very much that most Ivy Leaguers would recognize a portrait of Jefferson even if conked over the head with it -- but I digress). Then, he says, he pulled Jefferson aside to reveal a portrait of Sally Hemings, and (again he says) no one knew who she was.
My question is: Does anyone actually know what Sally Hemings looked like, beyond that she was Black and female? I doubt she ever had her portrait painted. How are a bunch of San Antonio kids supposed to recognize some contemporary artist's hypothetical depiction of her? How can they be faulted if they didn't? This is just lousy teaching.
Tina @ 1:30 is correct...
Killing infidels and treating women like cattle is a feature not a bug.
Sebastian said...
"...what is liberal about "liberals" these days?
That term has been ruined, and the people it used to refer to are gone. When I attended university, there were both conservative and liberal professors. Now there are almost none of either.
classical liberals were like the libertarians today,
"Does anyone know what Mohamed looked like?"
Ever seen a drawing of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Does anyone actually know what Sally Hemings looked like, beyond that she was Black and female?
Someone correct me if I err, but I believe Hemmings was described as a quadroon, someone one Black grandparent, and considered more Mediterranean in her looks than stereotypically African.
I think I have misspelled her name. It was Hemings, not the more common Hemmings.
The only rendition of Sarah "Sally" Hemings done in her lifetime was a very nasty 1804 political cartoon depicting Jefferson and Hemings as a pair of chickens.
Tina Trent said...
This is Islam. Not radical Islamism, not terrorist Islamism.
It's Islam. A cancer in any society, for centuries.
Read _A Bride in Kabul_. By well-known, second-wave feminist Phyllis Chesler, who was a naive young Jewish intellectual cosmopolitan when she ended up marrying a wealthy lie-by hanging out in an American University and found herself trapped in the women's quarters in a warlord's territory in Kabul.
By the way. My computer will no longer let me even look up her wikipedia
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Here you go, courtesy of DuckDuckGo:
page.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Chesler
@effinayright, I had success using Safari on an iPhone with iOS 14.7.1
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...My question is: Does anyone actually know what Sally Hemings looked like, beyond that she was Black and female?
That’s a good question. As you point out, that “anecdote” is as dumb as it is unlikely. I have another question—why should there be any symmetry between the recognition of one of the founders of our country and his probable lover? Is there some equivalence in the importance of their achievements?
Thanks, effinayright. Terrifying what I can’t find these days. I used to get full police, trial and incarceration records online from the source, or the expensive Lexis products. All gone now. In most state you can check inmate lists that have some information, but they are withholding 95% of criminal information from us.
Unless you’re a frat boy.
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