Political art...

These depictions of the Madonna in a burka and bin Laden as Christ have created a new "art controversy" in Australia and across the blogosphere. So I thought I'd post it just to annoy people.

Muslims do venerate the Blessed Virgin, thus the above depiction purported to be of Our Lady may not be so offensive. I'm not at all certain what the artist intended with bin Laden resembling traditional images of Jesus. Bin Laden is no messiah. However, the image of bin Laden did inspire my post on what Jesus may have looked like at Abbey-Roads 2.

Nevertheless, these images, though disrespectful, are simply vapid attempts at political art - no different than the Danish cartoons which caused outrage amongst Muslims several months ago. Blink, and these images are gone too. The images are kitsch, not art.