If It’s Tuesday This Must Be (Banned In) Belgium

I just had to rip off the title for this post from this movie. It just seemed to fit the situation perfectly, because it seems that a town in Belgium has banned this neat little piece of modern sculpture.

The massive protests against the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed have rocked the world. Buildings have been burnt down; people have died at demonstrations. At the same time another row, on a rather smaller scale, is raging in a small Belgian coastal town. The mayor has banned a local exhibition from displaying in a public place a sculpture of Saddam Hussein, made by the Czech artist David Cerny. The mayor says the decision is unconnected with the wave of protests, but he does acknowledge that he was motivated by a desire not to cause offence to passers-by, whether or not they were Muslim.