Lars Vilks

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Lars Vilks (2005)

Lars Endel Roger Vilks ( pronunciation : [ ˌlɑːʁs ˈvilːks ], born June 20, 1946 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish artist . He holds a doctorate in art history and was professor at the Bergen Art and Design School from 1997 to 2003 .

Nimis and Arx

Vilks became known in 1980 as the creator of the wooden sculptures Nimis and Arx , which are now located in the Kullaberg nature reserve in Höganäs , Skåne . In 1996 the small area with the sculptures of Vilks was declared an independent state called Ladonia .

Mohammed drawings

publication

In 2007 Vilks was invited to participate in an exhibition with the motto Hunden i Konsten (“The dog in art”) in Tällerud , Värmland . Vilks supplied three pen drawings in A4 , all of which show the Islamic prophet Mohammed as a roundel dog .

On July 20th, the day before the exhibition opened, the organizers decided to remove Vilks' drawings from the exhibition. The spokeswoman Märta Wennerström said that she initially did not "realize the gravity of the situation" and then decided to remove the drawings after consulting with the Swedish authorities and private individuals.

After the initial refusal to publish the drawings, Vilks sent his drawings to Gerlesborgsskolan in Bohuslän for an exhibition to open on August 18th. However, the school (where Vilks is an occasional lecturer) stated that it had chosen not to show the drawings due to safety concerns.

On August 18, the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper in Örebro printed one of the drawings in an editorial on self-censorship and religious freedom .

consequences

A week later, on August 25, 60 Muslims demonstrated in front of the newspaper office against the "insult to the Muslims of Islam". Vilks himself received death threats from Islamist extremists.

Vilks' wooden sculpture Nimis in the nature reserve Kullaberg .

On 27 August, the Swedish chargé in Tehran, Gunilla von Bahr, appointed to the Iranian Foreign Ministry, where she took a note of protest to the Iranian government. On August 28, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared in a press conference that Zionists were behind the drawings.

On August 30, Pakistan joined the Iranian protest. The Foreign Ministry in Islamabad said: "Unfortunately, there is an increasing tendency among some Europeans to mix freedom of expression with the blunt and deliberate insult to the 1.3 billion Muslims in the world." According to Pakistan, Swedish Chargé d'Affaires in Islamabad, Lennart Holst, said that he “fully shared the views of the Muslim community” and found the August 18 publication “unhappy”.

The spokeswoman for the Swedish Foreign Ministry, Anna Björkander, said, however, that this was a "misunderstanding" on the part of the Pakistanis. She added: "The Chargé d'Affaires said that he was sorry if the publication hurt Muslim feelings." Holst is also said to have explained to the Pakistani side the importance of freedom of the press in the Swedish constitution.

On September 15, the Iraqi group of the terror network Al-Qaeda Islamic State in Iraq announced by video message that they had placed a bounty of 100,000 dollars on Lars Vilks : "From today we call on everyone to shed the cartoonist's blood, who dared to humiliate the prophet, ”the message said. "We'll raise the reward to $ 150,000 if he's slaughtered like a lamb," they continued to threaten. The Swedish police reacted promptly and took "appropriate measures" for protection.

During a lecture at Uppsala University on May 11, 2010, Vilks was attacked by a spectator and slightly injured. A commotion broke out in the hall, in the course of which a policeman was injured. Two Muslim attackers were arrested. Also in May 2010, two men pelted his house with gas bottles.

An Islamist terrorist attack in Stockholm on December 11, 2010, which only barely had a devastating effect, was justified, apart from the Swedish military operation in Afghanistan, with the Mohammed caricatures by Vilks.

In January 2014, American Colleen LaRose ( Jihad Jane ) was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for planning an Islamic-inspired assassination attempt on Vilks.

On February 14, 2015, there was an Islamist terrorist attack at a Copenhagen event with Vilks; the filmmaker Finn Nørgaard was shot dead and other people were injured. The alleged assassin was shot dead by police the following night after a likewise fatal attack on a Jewish synagogue .

Web links

Commons : Lars Vilks  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muhammed som rondellhund stoppas (Swedish) , Nya Wermlands-Tidningen . July 20, 2007. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 27, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nwt.se 
  2. ↑ Bosse Brink: Teckningar på Muhammed togs bort (Swedish) , Svenska Dagbladet . July 21, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2007. 
  3. ^ Johan Sjöstrand: Stopp igen för Vilks Muhammed-bilder (Swedish) , Svenska Dagbladet . July 13, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2007. 
  4. ↑ Erik Hedtjärn: Demonstration mot Muhammedhundar (Swedish) , Dagens Nyheter . August 24, 2007. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2007. 
  5. ↑ Lars Vilks : Dags för svensk biennal i Göteborg ( Swedish ) August 8, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
  6. ↑ Lars Vilks : Del 359: “You skall slaktas!” ( Swedish ) August 11, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
  7. ↑ Lars Vilks : Del 365: På den 30: e dagen - kom det mera hot ( Swedish ) August 18, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
  8. ↑ Lars Vilks : Del 370: Innanför och utanför konstvärlden ( Swedish ) August 22, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
  9. ^ Lars Vilks : Del 373: Norden, andra tagningen ( Swedish ) August 25, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2007.
  10. ^ Iran protests over Swedish Muhammad cartoon , The Local . August 27, 2007. 
  11. ↑ Ahmadinejad claims 'Zionists' behind Swedish cartoon , The Local . August 28, 2007. 
  12. ↑ Pakistan: Again protest against the cartoon of Mohammed , ORF . August 31, 2007. 
  13. ↑ Muhammad cartoon: Sweden 'sorry for hurt feelings' , The Local . August 30, 2007. Retrieved August 31, 2007. 
  14. ↑ Viewers attacked Mohammed cartoonist , Spiegel Online. May 11, 2010. 
  15. ^ Mohammed draftsman Vilks injured in attack , Welt Online. May 11, 2010. 
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Terror in Copenhagen: Shots were aimed at Mohammed cartoonists. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Matthias Wyssuwa: Stockholm narrowly escapes a disaster , www.faz.net
  18. ↑ Suicide attack in Stockholm. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed on December 12, 2010 .
  19. ↑ a b Shots were aimed at Mohammed cartoonists
  20. ↑ Jon Hurdle: 10 Years for Plot to Murder Cartoonist . In: The New York Times . January 6, 2014, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 25, 2019]).
  21. ^ WORLD: Terror in Denmark: Police shoots assassins from Copenhagen . February 15, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed February 25, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Vilks, Lars
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilks, Lars Endel Roger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsingborg