Gay Artist Burns RareQuran worth 60,000$

SoSoHalalish · #1 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:16 AM

What a freak. No better way than to show you condemn "hate" by committing a hate crime.

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http://www.merrillcharles.com./

Gay Artist Burns Rare $60,000.00 Koran

Last Update: 7:50 AM ET Jul 26, 2007

NEW YORK, July 26, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Charles Merrill, the artist who recently edited the Holy Bible with a black marker and pair of scissors, has lately burned a rare Islamic Holy Book, The Koran, valued at $60,000.00, in an undisclosed Chicago location. "The purpose of editing and burning Abrahamic Holy Books is to eliminate homophobic hate," Merrill stated. "Both ancient books are terrorist manuals."
He continues, "I inherited the rare Islamic book from my late wife, Evangeline Johnson Merrill. As the daughter of the founder of the international pharmaceutical giant, Johnson and Johnson, Inc., doors of kings and queens opened to her around the world. Evangeline was given the rare manuscript by the late King of Jordan when she was on a mission for the United Nations in the 1950's."
"Airplanes are flown into buildings because of words, and hate crimes against gays," Merrill said.
Merrill is a self-made millionaire, artist, fervent atheist and cousin of the co-founder of Merrill Lynch.
Broadway Gallery is pleased to present Charles Merrill, artist, gay activist and iconoclast. Merrill's exhibition incorporates themes of LGBT activism and the spiritual customs associated with indigenous cultures in his work.
Using boldly colored acrylic and oil paint on large canvases, many are geometric compositions with recurring motifs of triangles, circles, lines, and arrows. The upside-down pink triangles in his work originate from a sinister source -- it was the emblem that gays had to wear in Nazi concentration camps.
Notably, another form of Merrill's activism is his altruism. All proceeds from works sold at his show at Broadway Gallery benefit the Williams Institute UCLA Sexual Orientation Legal Think Tank. Merrill wants "to make social change, educate, to leave the world a better place for the next generation of oppressed people." Merrill can be located on the Internet at http://www.merrillcharles.com.

socceroni67 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:23 AM

we should burn him

#3 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by socceroni67

we should burn him

It is said that when Chosroes, the Persian King, tore up the document sent by the Prophet [s], thus did Allah use this as a reason to tear apart his entire empire.

Revert · #4 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:27 AM

Thats gay...

Habibti · #5 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:35 AM

Fighting hate crimes with a hate crime.....irony anyone

IbnMardhiyah · #6 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 11:46 AM

La3natallah alayh .... and ditto to what Jaysh said.

azher · #7 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 02:45 PM

salams,

i don't understand. the book itself is paper (and sometimes leather or fabric). the leather and fabric may be worth $60k but the information it contains is priceless. he did nothing newsworthy here. he could have done the same to a copy of the qu'ran he got from his local library. it underlines his stupidity (and tunnel vision).

IbnMardhiyah · #8 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 04:34 PM

In todays' world, its often controversial [and sometimes outrageous] stories that make money, for the publisher. Controversy also gets people the desired air-time.

Certainly, the amount of sheer contempt and disrespect shown to a Book held in high respect by billions of Muslims and non-Muslims alike would definitely grab attention, especially one that has such historical value.

Amusing isn't it ... when Americans destroy historical and cultural artifacts, no one complains.