on 4/15/03 12:40 PM, Jerry Fahey at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Indigo wrote:
> I understand from other discussions that some of the
> loot (as yet undetailed to me) is being brought back
> to various places from which it was taken.  The word
> is that a Muslim cleric(s) indicated a woman could not
> sleep with a husband who had looted.
>
> Man, no nooky for looters!!
> The clerics were a day late and a dollar short on that call.
>
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As a member of a family that is Muslim and Christian and Middle Eastern, I
have found that much of the discussion on the looting of the Museum has been
extraordinarily misinformed or not informed at all and when you (museum
professionals?) begin to talk about the Religious Law and Personal Life I
find it totally unacceptable and bigoted.

Whoever is monitoring this list better take a closer look at this...who in
the international museum community would want to be involved with museum
professionals who make statements like this?

Helpful, appropriate, professional?  I think not!


Anne El-Omami
Associate Professor
Director, MA Program
Department of Museum Studies
The University of the Arts
333 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.717.6051

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