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Grayson Perry, The Tranny Potter, Scared To Speak Out Aginat Radical Islam

by | 23rd, November 2007

BRITISH artists like Grayson Perry fear reprisals if they speak out against radical Islam:

Grayson Perry, the cross-dressing potter, Turner Prize winner and former Times columnist, said that he had consciously avoided commenting on radical Islam in his otherwise highly provocative body of work because of the threat of reprisals.

“I’ve censored myself,” Perry said at a discussion on art and politics organised by the Art Fund. “The reason I haven’t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat.”

For those unfamiliar with Mr Perry, he is a straight man known to dress as a woman called  ‘Claire’…

If that’s not enough to get him killed by the Iranians or some other group of nutters, he should not worry about trying harder….

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