Speaking on the telephone from an unspecified location in the Netherlands last week, the artist, an Iranian exile who goes by the pseudonym of Sooreh Hera, said she had been threatened with “execution”. She accused the director of the municipal museum in The Hague of cowardice for caving in to Muslim extremists.
Her story is a reminder of the tensions that have put the Netherlands and other European countries on the front line, sending dozens of people threatened by extremists into hiding since 2004, when a Dutch film-maker was murdered on the street and his collaborator driven into exile.
This leaves Hera, 34, in no doubt that she is in real danger. “They said to me, ‘We’re going to burn you naked or put a bullet in your mouth’,” she said, referring to menacing e-mails.
“They say, ‘Now you are locked in your home and you cannot go out any more’.
Once again - the muslim answer to anything the do not like? Death threats. As long as this mentality is the face of Islam - there can be no peaceful coexistence.
We need to stop pretending that these incidents are isolated and extreme. While We can be sure that not all muslims - and definitely only a minority of muslims in the west - and possibly only a minority of muslims world wide think and act this way, we must also recognize that these kinds of threats are the public face of islam.
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