Berlin art show shocks France with jihadist ‘martyrs’ display

Source: The Local

A Berlin art installation dedicated to “martyrs” has prompted outrage by including one of the Paris jihadist attackers alongside the likes of Martin Luther King and Socrates, with the French embassy calling the display “deeply shocking”.

The so-called “Martyr Museum” by a Danish art collective shows the portraits of 20 people throughout history who “died for their convictions” accompanied by short biographies.

The exhibition includes an image of French jihadist Ismael Omar Mostefai, one of three gunmen and suicide bombers who stormed the Bataclan concert venue in Paris in 2015, killing 90 people.

On display next to his portrait is an entrance ticket to the Bataclan.

Also sharing a wall with US civil rights icon King and Greek philosopher Socrates is Mohammed Atta, the pilot who slammed a passenger plane into one of New York’s World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

The weeklong installation by the art group, The Other Eye of the Tiger, was inaugurated last Wednesday at the Kunstquartier Bethanien art centre.

It sparked howls of outrage in German and French media and on social networks.

The French embassy in Berlin expressed “consternation” and said it found the decision to include the attackers “deeply shocking.

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  1. My Question to all Islamic clerics and Amadiyyah.

    Islamic State ( ISIS) has been destroyed in Syria and Iraq reccently, why is not anyone celebersting? Very odd

    We should be thankful to God, without Gods help, ISIS cound not be defeated and terrorist still killing innocent people. Why???

    With❤️

    • Those who have financed and started ISIS (USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) are still around. Too early to celebrate.

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