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name is Tony Johansen. I am an artist. I like art and science and
poetry and books and history and technology and lots more besides.
Every day I am excited by the marvelous things I see in this wonderful
world and beyond. I love the Internet for giving me access to so much.
I am like a sponge for wondrous things or things that make me wonder. This site is really just a
scrapbook. Being on the web, however, means being able to share the
treasures I find. That's me, Tony Johansen, artist who likes to share
my excitement of being alive.




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    Wonderful poetry collected and shared by Tony Johansen


    • Archive

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    Censorship in the Islamic world is far reaching. This issue of the National Geographic sold in Iran received heavy censorship because of an article on love. The front cover depicted a couple embracing. Before global television and Internet, censorship went unnoticed outside these countries but now artistic expression in the West that angers Islamic fundamentalists leads to violence, death threats and protests world wide. It is a complex issue. The publishing of political cartoons in Denmark that lead to widespread protests is widely supported as legitimate artistic expression worthy of being defended. But what of the anti-Islamic film made by a right wing polititian in The Netherlands? Is this any different to the sort of anti-semitic productions that deny the holocaust? Should we support the right to free speech even where it causes offence? I personally found the call by the Indonesian President this week to ban the making of films critical of the Koran to be very offensive. As an artist I find any censorship offensive but it appears vast numbers of people all over the world prefer censorship to artistic freedom.

    Censorship in the Islamic world is far reaching. This issue of the National Geographic sold in Iran received heavy censorship because of an article on love. The front cover depicted a couple embracing. Before global television and Internet, censorship went unnoticed outside these countries but now artistic expression in the West that angers Islamic fundamentalists leads to violence, death threats and protests world wide.

    It is a complex issue. The publishing of political cartoons in Denmark that lead to widespread protests is widely supported as legitimate artistic expression worthy of being defended. But what of the anti-Islamic film made by a right wing polititian in The Netherlands? Is this any different to the sort of anti-semitic productions that deny the holocaust? Should we support the right to free speech even where it causes offence?

    I personally found the call by the Indonesian President this week to ban the making of films critical of the Koran to be very offensive. As an artist I find any censorship offensive but it appears vast numbers of people all over the world prefer censorship to artistic freedom.