Lars Vilks
Lars Endel Roger Vilks ( pronunciation: [ ˌ lɑ ː ː ks ʁs vil ], born June 20, 1946 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish artist. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from 1997 to 2003 and was a professor at the Art and Design Academy mountains.
Nimis and Arx
Vilks was founded in 1980 known as the creator of the wooden sculptures Nimis and Arx, nowadays, are Skåne in the nature reserve in Höganäs Kullaberg. In 1996, the small area was declared with the sculptures of Vilks as an independent state named Ladonia.
Mohammed drawings
2007 Vilks was i Konsten ( " The Dog in Art" ) invited in Tällerud, Värmland to participate in an exhibition with the slogan dogs. Vilks supplied three pen and ink drawings in A4, which all show the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a roundabout dog.
On July 20, the day before the opening of the exhibition, the organizers decided to remove Vilks ' drawings from the exhibition. The spokeswoman Marta Wennerström said that they initially not the " gravity of the situation recognized " and I then decided to remove the drawings after they have consulted with the Swedish authorities and private individuals.
After the first refusal to publish the drawings, Vilks sent his drawings to the Gerlesborgsskolan in Bohuslän for an exhibition that was to be opened on August 18. However, the school said (at the Vilks occasional lecturer is ) that they have decided not to show the drawings due to safety concerns.
On 18 August, the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda printed in Örebro one of the drawings from an editorial on self-censorship and freedom of religion. A week later, on August 25, 60 Muslims were demonstrating in front of the newspaper office against the "insulting the Muslims of Islam." Vilks himself got death threats from Islamist extremists.
On 27 August, the Swedish chargé in Tehran, Gunilla von Bahr, was appointed to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, where she took a note of protest to the Iranian government. On August 28, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a press conference that Zionists were behind the drawings.
On August 30, Pakistan joined the Iranian protest. The foreign ministry in Islamabad said: ". Regrettably takes under some Europeans tend to mix freedom of opinion with the outright and deliberate insult to the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world " According to Pakistan, said the Swedish charge d'affaires in Islamabad, Lennart Holst, that he was " the views of the Muslim community completely " divide and the publication of August 18, " unhappy " would find.
The spokeswoman for the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Anna Björk Ander, however, said that this was a "misunderstanding " by the Pakistanis. She added: " The Chargé said that he was sorry if the publication had hurt Muslim feelings. " Holst is said to have the Pakistani side also explains the significant importance have freedom of the press in the Swedish constitution.
On September 15, the Iraqi group of the terrorist network Al- Qaeda was " Islamic State in Iraq," a video message announced that it had suspended on Lars Vilks a bounty of $ 100,000: "From today, we call upon all the blood of the cartoonists to shed, who has dared to debase the prophets, "it said in the message. "We are increasing the reward to $ 150,000 if he is slaughtered like a lamb ", they threatened further. The Swedish police responded promptly and directed " appropriate measures " to protect a.
During a lecture at Uppsala University on 11 May 2010 Vilks was attacked by a spectator and slightly injured. In the hall, a commotion broke out, a policeman was injured in the course of which. Two Muslim attackers were arrested.
A strayer barely without devastating effect Islamist terrorist attack in Stockholm on December 11, 2010 was established except with the Swedish military mission in Afghanistan with the Mohammed caricatures of Vilks.