An anti-discrimination exhibition in a school in Nijmegen was shut down since a group of students threatened to burn down the building since they didn't like a cartoon about a woman in a burka.
The students of the ROC Nijmegen also threatened with destruction. The exhibition was then canceled.
In the framework of the exhibition "what bothers you now? discrimination stripped" fifteen large cartoons were hung up in the school. When the presentation was set up Monday it came to a "strong exchange of words" according to the school administration.
According to the Anti Discrimination Office in Nijmegen, one of the initiators of the exhibition, the discord possibly centered around a cartoon by Peter de Wit, in which a lady in a burka is called a 'dirty Muslim'. [ed. Peter de Wit published a whole book of such burka cartoons].
--Dirty Muslim!
"A small group of students understood the cartoons completely differently than the intention of the makers. The atmosphere was such that in consultation with the building security it was decided to temporarily take back the cartoons," says the administration.
The exhibition would have opened Tuesday evening. ROC Nijmegen will look for a different way of showing the exhibition. "From the reactions it appears that the chosen shape, a presentation of the pictures on panels without further explanations - missed its goal," according to the school.
The Anti Discrimination Office in Nijmegen together with the school are currently considering how to do the exhibition differently, possibly to speak about the exhibition in class.
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
The students of the ROC Nijmegen also threatened with destruction. The exhibition was then canceled.
In the framework of the exhibition "what bothers you now? discrimination stripped" fifteen large cartoons were hung up in the school. When the presentation was set up Monday it came to a "strong exchange of words" according to the school administration.
According to the Anti Discrimination Office in Nijmegen, one of the initiators of the exhibition, the discord possibly centered around a cartoon by Peter de Wit, in which a lady in a burka is called a 'dirty Muslim'. [ed. Peter de Wit published a whole book of such burka cartoons].
--Dirty Muslim! -- Calm down, I'm just on my way to the launderette.
"A small group of students understood the cartoons completely differently than the intention of the makers. The atmosphere was such that in consultation with the building security it was decided to temporarily take back the cartoons," says the administration.
The exhibition would have opened Tuesday evening. ROC Nijmegen will look for a different way of showing the exhibition. "From the reactions it appears that the chosen shape, a presentation of the pictures on panels without further explanations - missed its goal," according to the school.
The Anti Discrimination Office in Nijmegen together with the school are currently considering how to do the exhibition differently, possibly to speak about the exhibition in class.
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
2 comments:
Wait...I don't understand how this cartoon is supposed to promote anti-discrimination...I could understand if children couldn't understand it...but I'm 22...
but I'm 22...---
Then you're a dolt.
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