Painting: In the Name of God... Not at All

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Artist's Statement

This portrait of Abuhamza Almasri shows the man with one eye but does not divulge the hooks for hands. 

Instead, here is the real hook: The title, "In the Name of God... Not at All." Because nowhere is it written in the Beautiful Quran that Man should Kill Man. 

Religions are all beautiful, as long as they are no excuses to murder or torture. 

The Muslim cleric used to preach at a mosque linked to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person ever convicted in U.S. court in connection with the 11 September 2001 attacks, and shoe bomber Richard Reid. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.


Medium

Oil on Canvas -60''x72''

Signaletics

"In the Name of God... Not at All" is a 2007-2008 painting by Frederic Marsanne, the leading artist in the house where he lives... Frederic has exhibited at MKL GALLERY in Somerville, MA, Ambassador Galleries in Soho, NY, and was chosen to exhibit in a juried show at the New Rochelle Art Association Annual in New Rochelle, NY.

Style, Themes, Techniques

A friend asked me if I had met Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (Arabic: مصطفى كامل مصطفى), also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri (/ˈɑːbuː ˈhɑːmzə ɑːl ˈmɑːsri/ ⓘ; أبو حمزة المصري, Abū Ḥamzah al-Maṣrī – literally, father of Hamza, the Egyptian), or simply Abu Hamza, an Egyptian cleric who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London, England, charged by British authorities with sixteen offenses for inciting violence and racial hatred and found guilty of eleven terrorism charges by a jury in Manhattan, New York (Source: Wikipedia)- and if I had used him as a live model.

I answered, "I don't want to die."

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