A photo of a Muslim woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding up a bra as she sorts laundry is stirring controversy in Kamloops, B.C., and the Saudi Arabian Embassy is now involved.
CBC(H/T Martin) The photo, taken by Thompson Rivers University fine arts student Sooraya Graham, features one of Graham’s friends wearing a niqab, a veil covering the face, and an abaya, a full-body cloak.
The picture was a class assignment and was originally displayed with other student photos in mid-March, until some (Muslim?) students complained and a staff member tore it down a week later. ”I was pretty shocked and I kind of felt my personal space as an artist and a Canadian had been invaded,” said Graham.
Christopher Seguin, the vice president of advancement at Thompson River University, said the art work was removed by a staff member who was acting on their own, and not in an official capacity.
Once the institution learned of the action, it immediately returned the art and made a commitment to cover any costs for its repair or replacement.
“The university is committed to honouring artistic expression and on a campus with many international stakeholders it is important that we balance cultural sensitivity with freedom of speech, and we value the conversations that this piece of art and all our others inspire,” said Seguin. Graham was allowed to display it at the university’s art gallery, as part of an art show, until April 12th.
Saudi rep says photographer ‘irresponsible’
But the Saudi Education Centre in Kamloops, which is funded by the Saudi Arabian government and provides support to Saudi students and their families, is taking issue with the photo. ”The artist didn’t approach the artwork let’s say in a very professional way that can state and can clarify the information and clarify the idea behind the picture,” said centre president Trad Bahabri.
Bahabri said he thinks text explaining the photo’s meaning is needed. “I’m pretty sure many people misinterpret and many people misunderstand it. I can guarantee that,” he said. (That’s what art is, idiot, open to many different interpretations)
Graham counters it’s up to the viewer to interpret the meaning, but says she had hoped the photo would show the public that women who wear the niqab are the same as everyone else. (Well, that IS a stretch)
I wouldn’t of taken it down because of the BRA but because of the wearing of a niqab. Now that is downright filthy to look at, please don’t let your kids see a woman wearing a niqab, it will make them have mental problems..Peace to all non-moslems who feel like I do.
Yes indeed; the niqab is “offensive” AND “obscene” and ONLY a perveted demmented arselifter would find the bra displayed offensive!!
right on
WHICH is more ‘offensive’??
That is the question!
What is truly offensive to MOZMEN is MOCKERY of their TOXIC NARICISSISM!!!
That means we should mock and poke fun at them MORE!
Sane people believe their claim to RULE THE EARTH is absurd and preposterous!
THAT IS OFFENSIVE!!!
the niqab is worn to keep aways from perverts like you! wats the point of a niqab if u wanna hold a bra to show off?? do you want ur daughter/mother/wife to go on the streets half naked or wear a niqab n go unnoticed?? you obviously will choose the former cuz your name say’s it all..
May ALLAH show you the right path.
Brother, go to Hell.
WHAT WRONG WITH HOLDING UP A BRA YOU CAN GO INTO ANY WALMART AND SEE ALL YOU WANT.
AT LEAST THE MUSLIM WEAR THEM EVEN THO.THEY HAVE TO COVER WHOLE BODY.FROM WHAT I SEE IN THIS WOMAN’S EYES LOOKS LIKE A NICE LOOKING WOMAN.
SHAME THEY HAVE TO COVER THEM SELF.
A WOMAN LIKE A FLOWER SHOULD BE ADMIRED NOT HID.
Jim, please don’t use CAPS LOCK for the entire comment.
Can’t sue for defamation b/c no one can identify the baghead.
The university is terrorized by Mozmen killer zombie jihadists!
MOSLEMS, YOU LOVE TO TERRORIZE!!!
The picture was taken by a woman wearing a head bag. She was very clear that as a Canadian, she enjoyed freedoms in Canada that women in the hell holes of islam can only wish for. The saudi’s get involved and so here is a country that will not let women drive cars, trying to tell Canadians to control freedom of expression. That ugly trad, muslim savage, makes his foolish comments about not being appropriate with out comments attached to the art work, is total foolishness. So now the muslim savages want to control freedom of speech and freedom of expression regarding anything dealing with the truth about the cult of islam. We must never allow muslims to stop our freedom of speech and expression. We must be allowed to make cartoon characters of mohamed, Jesus and any person we chose to do so.
So, get involved in changing our immigration qualifiers! Write Baird. Let him know that you want people as immigrants who espouse value systems akin to what the silent, dominant majority in Canada live by. No more, no less. Thx.
The photographer is a baghead herself?
LOL !!!
That young lady in Kamloops, must of had a partial lobotamy in the past, expecting her free thinking on Islam to be accepted.
To have been raised in our society with womens rights and getting involved as a structure that makes her a less than second class citizen, is outright stupidity.
THERE IS ONLY ONE ISLAM, TIED TO MOHAMMED’S SICK MIND! NO ROOM FOR PERSONAL INTERPRETATIONS.
ISLAM MUST BE DESTROYED!
Get out of my country, baghead. Even if you were born here – go NOW!!!!
The hypocrisy of this entire story set my gag reflex off at least a dozen times….
So I sent Trad Bahabri a little note….
You can too….at
tradbahabri@chamber.com
Tell this little lover of prepubescent children what we think of his brand of gut wrenching islamohysteria….
Regards, Don Laird
Edson, Alberta, Canada
Forgive the ignorance please, but who is this person you write of? Is this the person who took action at the Three Rivers Uni.?
Thank you for your time and patience.
The ‘Islamohysteria’ comes from SAUDI ARABIA, the home of Mozman terrorism!
Wealthy Saudis support terrorism worldwide with oil loot!
Has everybody missed the point? The Saudis see this as a serious health issue. Imagine the legions of deprived (or is it depraved?) Muslim males overdosing on Viagra and throwing their elbows out of joint. Can Canadian emergency rooms handle such passionate patients?
Lock up the sheep and cattle!
That saudi rep needs a mohammadan refresher course. ALL artwork, images, statues, photographs, etc, are forbidden in his mohammadan political lifestyle, lest someone worship them.
Leaving aside, for the moment, whether it is halal to school a woman beyond her ability to read and write the koran, must female students breastfeed their male teacher to make him part of their families, so that they may be alone with him in the classroom?
Saudi Arabian were the men are men, the women are bagged and the camels are nervous. Were the Saudi’s really upset about the photo? Could it be they wanted to offer fashion advice? Maybe they wanted her to buy some sexy VS and Fredericks underwear?
The picture should have been perv Mohammed in a jock strap holding a playgirl mag…lmao~!
Take the bag off your head muslima! Leave islam and it’s insanity!!!!!
I have to admire the actions of Christopher Seguin~! And let’s support the attempts of the oppressed to throw off their chains, even if it is one link at a time~! Neither the Universe nor Rome were created in one day, and the efforts of enlightened mozlems won’t be completed in one day, either~!
I find it reprehensible that the arse-mouth idiot in the Saudi embassy gets his nose stuck up a rear-end where it doesn’t belong – In the internal affairs of an educational institution not in his own, native country~!
I cannot imagine trad bahari assisting his wife with the laundry~! That leads to a line of visual images best left unvisited~!
L O L~!
Yeah, that’s pretty funny – Saudi Arabia is one of the most depraved, vile human-rights-abusing governments on earth, but it’s calling someone else “irresponsible.”
Oh, okay, how about instead we put up photos of Saudi officials lopping off people’s heads and hands in the public square? Would that be less offensive?
Forcing all women in your country to dress in black plastic bags – that’s not “irresponsible!”
What evil, filthy people we are being surrounded by on all sides.
Now muslim males are going to rape muslim women – like that doesn’t happen already – because they can see that muslim women wear bras under those black tents. Oooooooh! I wonder what muslim men will do when they find out some muslim women wear nothing but lingerie under those tents. Ooooooooh noooooo!
The real point is why is Saudi Arabia allowed to sponsor an islamic school in Canada. WTH! Why is a terrorist nation allowed to sponsor this school?
Its a photo that has some meaning and makes one think about people and how differnt our lives are.
your awaiting moderation well here it is. I was commenting on the photo as art not subject.Personaly I think the women so dumb she has no ides of what a bar is.And Barenakedislam has no idea what are is.
Susanna said “And Barenakedislam has no idea what are is”
Please speak English.
i had a hard time understanding what she said.
Susanna’s point about the contrast between cultures is valid.
Artists are supposed to alert us to mortal danger…like canaries in the mine!
This photo is talking to Western women and telling them how they are losing their FREEDOM by not seeing this evil misogyny for what it is!
Feminists, where are you?
The point is the Saudi’s are calling the shots. Time to evict them.
I have been dealing with the Saudi’s for 25 years. They start by smiling and end by yelling and threatening death.
Our governments need to be told in no uncertain terms to kick them out.
Dear Trad Bahabri:
Could you please give us some examples of explanatory text, say for The Mona Lisa, or Munsch’s Scream.
And dear BNI readers, how about a quick competition for best cut line for that photo.
Here are two starters:
“Does this go on the outside or inside?”
” Would Trad Bahabri prefer me in the black ninja garb or this?”
The photography professor says maybe we can find out why ‘some people’ are offended and some not? Well, let’s just say ‘some people’ are all muslim islamists and they are offended because their murdering, pedophile, rapist, thief prophet described to them the lowly state of women in the qu’ran, and is reiterated in the suras and hadiths, told them to hide their sex. How can you argue with logic like that?
as far as the photo went it is art. But why she would voluntarily wear a headbag and bodybag is beyond me
all that fuss for nothing a storm in a d cup
That’s not a D cup… a B at best.
Wake up Canada, take a look at how bad the muslim situation Is In Europe, you will be next.
No, we won’t. We are one of the few Western nations that rejected Shari’a Family Courts. Mark Steyne had it wrong – it will be Canada Alone.
(B, I’m still getting “404 Cannot be Found” when I want to reply. I had to go through many back doors to get on this page).
K, I’ll remind the webmaster again. He’s supposed to be trying to find out how to fix it.
This was on the agenda the other day. Have you seen it?
Realigning Canadian Immigration Here’s the link below ==>