Censorship & religion in Poland
Channel: Detroiter in Ukraine
Date: 19/05/2019

Art, censorship and religion in Poland, as compared to Islam. I start with why Poland arrested a woman for making an image of Mary with a rainbow halo, and go from there: from Mohammed cartoons to Piss Christ.

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Rainbow Madonnas, Bi Madonnas and Trans Madonnas: https://www.facebook.com/transgrysy/

SOURCES:

Black Madonna of Częstochowa:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/woman-arrested-poland-posters-virgin-mary-rainbow-halo-plock

Poland's nationalist problem:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46143753
https://wroclaw.onet.pl/wroclaw-prezydent-zakazal-marszu-polski-niepodleglej/hpdk42v?fbclid=IwAR2Ej5Sl0H2y3n20un-h4A7RhAKZlDfLnbwhFRADZG6mRgQJC5dKpwBhCOg

"The idea of having so-called works of art in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary is sick."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/455902.stm

Immersion (Piss Christ)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/03/andres-serrano-interview-donald-trump-piss-christ

Salman Rushdie is among a dozen writers to have put their names to a statement in a French weekly paper warning against Islamic "totalitarianism".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4763520.stm

Polish priests burning Harry Potter books:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47771706

Polish response to the film Kler (Clergy): https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/polish-clerical-abuse-film-turns-mirror-on-audience-1.3657382

All Saint’s Day ball as an alternative for Halloween (Polish)
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114883,22524923,zamiast-spider-mana-jan-pawel-ii-szkoly-organizuja-bale-wszystkich.html
https://miastokolobrzeg.pl/szkola/13450-bal-wszystkich-swietych-zamiast-halloween.html

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/07/woman-arrested-in-poland-for-defacing-icon-of-virgin-mary-with-lgbt-rainbow/

Prawo i pięść, footage:
https://youtu.be/PNlzsGb19dg

Whole film:
https://youtu.be/PNlzsGb19dg

Art:

Plac Grunwaldzki after WWII:
http://wroclaw.naszemiasto.pl/artykul/plac-grunwaldzki-na-starych-fotografiach-zobacz-jak,2169513,galop,t,id,tm.html

Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/283373

Siren vase:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399666&partId=1

Kehinde Wiley, Officer of the Hussars, 2007, oil on canvas.
https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/officer-hussars-98007