Lars Vilks at the UW, 2005
I remembered the Swedish artist Lars Vilks visiting the UW a few years ago, before his Mohammed cartoons started causing controversy in Sweden this Fall. Digging through my photo archive resulted in this portrait, taken during a lunch at the Faculty Club.
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Peter LeonardFulbright Fellow & Guest Researcher at Uppsala University's Centre for Multiethnic Research.
Graduate student in Swedish Literature at the University of Washington.
During Spring 2007, I was an exchange student in Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen as a Scan|Design Fellow, where I also interned at Museum Tusculanums Forlag, the University Press.
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We may also draw a cartoon about Kingdom of Gays "Sweden". They have 200 thousand active men out of 10 million. And also they have more than 1 million homosexuals against real men.
Muslims Against Sharia praise the courage of Lars Vilks, Ulf Johansson, Thorbjorn Larsson and the staff of Nerikes Allehanda and Dagens Nyheter and condemn threats issued by Abu Omar Al Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq. Muslims Against Sharia will provide a payment of 100,000kr (about $15,000) for the information leading to capture or neutralization of Abu Omar Al Baghdadi.
Muslimer mot Sharia berömmer Lars Vilks, Ulf Johansson, Torbjörn Larsson och övriga anställda på Nerikes Allehanda och Dagens Nyheter för deras tapperhet och fördömer hotet från Abu Omar Al Baghdadi och Islamistiska Iraq. Muslimer mot Sharia betalar 100 000 SEK (ca 15 000$) för information som leder till gripande eller oskadligörande av Abu Omar Al Baghdadi.
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