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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 853681" data-attributes="member: 212">If Buddhists are like Islamic fanatics some Western and sculptors would be facing death threats today at the rate they are ridiculing and making fun of the Buddha image.   Some of them would have even been killed.But these so-called artists with twisted minds do not seen to appreciate the inoffensive and non-violent nature of Buddhists. Instead they continue to insult the Buddha in the name of art as a recent sculpture in a UK museum proves.   By doing so they only expose their perverted minds to the world. <img src="http://www.fileupyours.com/files/72706/Pic-wwww1-0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />By doing so they only expose their perverted minds to the worldDetectives from a 'hate crime unit' this week asked an art gallery in the UK to turn around a sculpture of Buddha with comical genitalia, on the grounds that it upset passers-by.Police said they received a number of complaints from members of the public who saw the bronze statue - which shows a penis and testicles in the shape of a banana and eggs - on display in the window of the Saint Giles Street Gallery in Norwich.Now gallery owner David Koppel has agreed to turn the sculpture - A Trilogy: The Iconoclasts, by artist Colin Self - so that the front cannot be seen from the street.A police spokeswoman said detectives from the force's hate crime unit looked into the complaints and had spoken to Mr. Koppel.She said, presumably with a straight face, that she did not know 'the ins and outs' of the investigation.'Our basic position is that there is no issue with various types of art being displayed,' she said.'We have had a complaint in respect of the prominent exhibition of this statue on the basis that it causes religious offence.'An officer has visited the art gallery in question. There is no issue with the fact that the statue is on display within the gallery.'However, there is an issue with such a piece of art being displayed prominently in a window frontage in full view of passers-by on a busy public street.'We have liaised with the management of the gallery in order to reach a solution which both upholds the principles of freedom of artistic expression but also prevents any offence being caused to any general member of the public or faith group.'As a result of this sterling police work, the Buddha's comically-shaped penis now points into the gallery, rather than at passers by.</blockquote>

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