Letter to the editor

Dear editor,
last week I read your very interesting article about the exhibition in the "Brooklyn Museum". It was about Chris Ofili's "Virgin Mary, who is surrounded with elephant dung!
I was really shocked, nobody is allowed to "drag someone's faith in the mud!" I can understand, that mayor Giuliani was angry. In the Islam, there is nobody allowed to paint their prophet or god, but why is it allowed to depict "Virgin Mary" so ridiculously. I'm not agaist religious picture, only against such irreverent pictures. There's a law, "Free speech and opinion", but that is going too far.
Art which shocks, is dangerous for our community, because it shows a wrong world. It can change someone's mind, but shocking art doesn't miss their goals. "They get a lot of attention!"
I'm sorry for the mayor, that he loste the battle, because the exhibition should be closed!
Yours Simon

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