“Normalise criticism of the Quran and the Prophet.”
There are only a few countries in the world where an art fair director could even conceivably have such opinions. And America hasn’t been one of them in quite a while.
Still, our cancel culture stepped in and did its job.
Bart Drenth has resigned as global managing director at Tefaf less than six months after taking on the role at the Dutch company, which owns and runs Tefaf Maastricht and Tefaf New York art fairs, in December….
Drenth’s resignation comes days after Artnet News posted an article which chronicled his “anti-woke” Tweets (his account @bardrenth has since been made private). Annie Armstrong translated the Tweets, originally written in Dutch. One, posted in August 2022, reportedly read: “Just as with the Iranian revolution in 1978, left-wing do-gooders stand hand in hand with jihadists. Not knowing that after the success of the revolution they will die first.”
Other tweets, according to Artnet News, read: “Speculating about the transition of the population is only a problem when you are not a Muslim,” and: “Woke is the new Westboro: Hyper-Calvinistic hagglers.” Another said: “Really, your L+ rights are best protected if you are waving around Palestinian flags on the pride parade.” And, last month, Drenth reportedly wrote: “Normalise criticism of the Quran and the Prophet.”
Muslims will kill you for saying such things, wokes will just see to it that you’re forced out of your job.
You’ll be absolutely surprised to learn, I’m sure, that Annie Armstrong has done nothing except blog for assorted publications, including Vice, and has now hit the big time, not by creating something, but by destroying it.
Islamists and leftist wokes have that in common. Incapable of creating, all they can do is destroy.
Jim Austin says
“Just as with the Iranian revolution in 1978, left-wing do-gooders stand hand in hand with jihadists. Not knowing that after the success of the revolution they will die first.”
That is in fact a true statement.
It has happened before when Islamic fundamentalists took over in Iran in 1979. A bunch of leftists descended around Ayatollah Khomeini and were given government positions. Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr became president of the Islamic Republic. Sadegh Ghotbzadeh became foreign minister, and Monsour Farhang was appointed Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Ghotbzadeh ended up shot. Bani-Sadr and Farhang fled Iran for their lives, the latter screaming that the Ayatollah was criminally insane.
FYI says
A Leftist,being a non-muslim ,is of course ‘the WORST OF CREATED BEINGS” {koran 98:6}
In fact a muslim who is friends with a non-muslim is ALSO {koran 5:51}the ‘WORST OF CREATED BEINGS” which makes no sense.
The Leftists are useful idiots for islam.
Jim says
In America and the West it is quite fashionable to condemn Christianity, and is not considered evil, the way anti-Semitism is. If it were like Christianity, Islam would be just as open and accepting of this sort of moral condemnation that Christians accept. Usually Christians do not murder anyone for criticizing Christianity. I do not know of any cases at all. I suppose that back in the Reformation heretics could be burned at the stake and tortured for sins like denying key church dogmas, such as claiming the sun was the center of the solar system. The question is whether Islam will evolve to reform its attitude toward heresy. Theoretically it could do this. But how many acts of jihad and sharia honor killings will occur before the doctrines that encourage these practices are rejected by religious and political authorities.