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A Moroccan-French artist in Toulouse designed a display in which verses of the Koran were projected on the sidewalk. One night, due to a technical glitch, the projector was turned on when no “mediators” were present, so that no one was there to warn infidel passers-by not to step on the sacred verses.

You can imagine the reaction. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and no one was killed or seriously hurt, although there were reports that a kafir woman got slapped for her blasphemous footwork.

The story in French is here.

Many thanks to Michael Laudahn for translating this video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

A slightly revised transcript is below:

00:00   …but let’s start talking about the incident which occurred last night at the Printemps
00:04   Septembre Toulouse [festival name], an artist’s installation projects
00:08   Koranic verses on the ground. Problem: Moslems have not accepted that
00:12   passers-by are walking over them. — Dear Madam, considering that the exposition
00:16   conditions of my oeuvre are not met, I urge you
00:20   to suspend it. — The decision has been taken. 24 hours after the incident,
00:24   the artist has decided to partially revise his oeuvre. The
00:28   projectors which are installed on the lamp posts along the Pont-Neuf will be demounted, so no more
00:32   Koranic verses projected on the ground, the projection will be made against façades. —
00:36   This is a decision made by the artist, his choice, his oeuvre belongs to him. I find it
00:40   a pity that this incident has created
00:44   tensions, I find it a pity. — Yesterday
00:48   before 2 [am], a technical problem triggered inadvertently the projection.
00:52   Consequence: No mediators present as originally planned,
00:56   in order to explain the artist’s oeuvre, and nobody there to demand that passers-by not
01:00   step on it. One woman paid the price, [don’t quite understand what he says — according to the press,
01:04   she was slapped in the face by Mohammedans for stepping on it]. Rapidly,
01:08   some sixty persons assembled to denounce the blasphemy committed against the prophet.
01:12   No confrontation with the forces of order, nor any arrests,
01:17   but a palpable tension in the quarter. The imam who arrived on site
01:21   to calm down the spirits was welcomed at the mayor’s office, this afternoon. —
01:25   What is your message to the youngsters and the
01:29   quarters which have remained calm… — That they remain calm, because there is nothing
01:33   special, nothing malign, nothing… —
01:37   This is not a provocation,
01:41   this is an accident. — The oeuvre’s author, Mounir Fatmi, of Moroccan origin,
01:45   says he is disconsolate about this incident. His revised oeuvre
01:49   will be projected on Friday…


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